Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Since 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have recognized the vision, ingenuity, and talent of our nation’s youth, and provided opportunities for creative teens to be celebrated. Each year, increasing numbers of teens participate in the program and become a part of our community—young artists and writers, filmmakers and photographers, poets, and sculptors, along with countless educators who support and encourage the creative process.
The Awards are presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to identify students with exceptional artistic and literary talent and present their remarkable work to the world through the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Students receive opportunities for recognition, exhibition, publication, and scholarship.
Students’ submissions are blindly judged by leaders in the visual and literary arts. Jurors look for works that exemplify the Awards’ core values: originality, technical skill, and the emergence of personal voice or vision.
2024 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Important Dates:
- EXTENDED DEADLINE: New date – Friday, February 9, 2024, by 11:59 pm. Scholastic Submission Period Closes
- February 19-20, 2024: Scholastic Adjudication
- March 1, 2024: Award Notifications Announced
- March 2-March 17, 2024: Gold Key Winning Works Drop-off at the Mississippi Museum of Art
- March 23-May 5, 2024: Scholastic Gold Key Winning Works Exhibition on view
- March 29, 2024: National Awards announcement
- Date TBA: Regional Scholastic Art Award Ceremony at the Mississippi Museum of Art
Slider images:
- Reed_D_14342475: Deshea Reed, Emerging Form, Ida B. Wells APAC, Grade 12, Gold Key & American Visions Nominee
- McCaleb_Q_14335132: Quentin McCaleb, Like Looking in a Mirror, Ida B. Wells APAC, Grade 12, Gold Key & American Visions Nominee
- Bell_L_14319189: Labrenda Bell, The Missing, Ida B. Wells APAC, Grade 10, Gold Key & American Visions Nominee
- Hines_D_14342688: Dion Hines, A Mother’s Thread, Ida B. Wells APAC, Grade 11, Gold Key & American Visions Nominee
- Williams_G_14319384: Gabriel Williams, Father of Alligators, Ida B. Wells APAC, Grade 12, Gold Key & American Visions Nominee
