DGN Students Earn National Scholastic Art & Writing Honors

NEW YORK, NY – The nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers has announced the national award recipients of the 2017 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in grades 7–12. Within the Awards’ 29 categories, which include poetry, photography, sculpture, humor, editorial cartoons, and video game design, a record-breaking 330,000 works of art and writing were submitted for adjudication at the regional level this year. A complete list of the 2017 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards national recipients is available at http://www.artandwriting.org/2017NationalMedalists. 

Four DGN students were honored this year at the national level, placing them in the Top 1% of all adjudicated works.

Evie Brindl, grade 11; Photography: “Jumpman”; National Scholastic Silver Medal in Art  Teacher: Megan Kelly

Caden Faldetta, grade 9; Photography: “Diversified”; National Scholastic Silver Medal in Art    Teacher: Megan Kelly

Audrey Staron, grade 12; Drawing & Illustration: “A Perilous Preservation”; National Scholastic Silver Medal in Art   Teacher: Marty Voelker

Emma Wilson, grade 12; Writing Portfolio: “War Poetry”; National Scholastic Silver Medal in Writing  Teacher: Marty Voelker

  

PANCAKES

i know where i’m from by the

way i say ‘pecan pancakes’

but it’s the kind of menopausal diner

where they can’t understand me.

glass case, bread in baskets

i know where i’m from:

caramel is two syllables.

the drugstore is three: this

waitress and I share

our skin in bottles: a fitzpatrick four,

child of the world.  does this child

of the world buy her nails at CVS?

i do.  i’m telling you:

i can write a poem about race

but it won’t be my own. 

maybe it’s hers, this maybelline

medium indigenous to thirty

degrees above the equator

three-sixty degrees around:

we will be understood. 

where i’m from, the accent

is on the second syllable:

come-on, be gone, pecan.

let’s lean together on the

dessert case,

and only if i don’t feel their

systematic compulsion in my

half-coerced bones, remember:

i share pores

with these pecan pancakes.

- Emma Wilson

Congratulations Evie, Caden, Audrey, and Emma!