Congratulations to DGN Visual Artists Haley Phillips and Aiden Robinson who were honored this week in a ceremony at New York's famed Carnegie Hall. Both students won National Gold Medals by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
Aiden Robinson was additionally recognized with the National American Vision Award in the Jewelry and Metal Work category.
Entries are selected for awards without knowledge of the student’s gender, age, ethnicity, or hometown by some of the foremost leaders in the visual and literary arts. Many Scholastic Awards alumni have lent their expertise as jurors, including Michael Bierut, Philip Pearlstein, Edward Sorel, Red Grooms, and Gary Panter. Other luminaries who have served as judges include Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Judy Blume, Billy Collins, Paul Giamatti, Francine Prose, Edwidge Danticat, David Sedaris, Lesley Stahl, Nikki Giovanni, Roz Chast, Wangechi Mutu, Andres Serrano, Kiki Smith, Jill Kraus, Shinique Smith, Rashid Johnson, and Waris Ahluwalia. Jurors look for works that exemplify the Awards’ core values: originality, technical skill, and the emergence of a personal voice or vision.
We salute both Haley and Aiden for the exceptional national achievements, as well as their Visual Art mentors and DGN Fine Arts faculty, Ms. Amy Bernard and Ms. Robyn Bican.
