DGS students earn three National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards #99learns #dgspride

"Struck" - Claire Pikul, artist.  National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Gold Medal Winner

"Hidden" - Alessandra Lane, artist.  National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards 

Silver Medal Winner

"Paper Chase" - Claire Pikul, artist.  National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards

Gold Medal Winner

Claire Pikul and Alessandra Lane

South High School in Downers Grove is pleased to announce that after competitive adjudication for National Scholastic Awards Claire Pikul has earned two Gold Medal Awards and Alessandra Lane has earned a Silver Medal Award.

Since 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Writing Awards are the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious award and recognition program for creative teens. This year the Scholastic Awards received 320,000  submissions for the 2016 program year. Receiving a National Medal from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards places these student artists within the top 1% of all submissions from a national pool of art work.

Student work will be in exhibition at Carnegie Hall in New York, New York starting with an gala opening in June of 2016.

"Earning a national award from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards is the pinnacle of success for a high school artist." said Fine Arts department chairman Glenn Williams.  "We are extremely proud of Claire and Alessandra and their mentor teacher, Michelle Lynn, for earning this recognition at a national level."

"Both Claire and Alessandra are extremely talented and work extremely hard on a daily basis." said mentor teacher Michelle Lynn.  "These pieces were selected from a national pool of student work and are deserving of these awards."

For more information about South High School visual art, contact Glenn Williams, department chairman, at gwilliams@csd99.org