The 2011 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition

Discover the outstanding artistic talents of our area’s youth. This annual exhibition features over 325 works of art created by students in grades 7–12 from throughout Wisconsin for you to explore, contemplate, discuss, and enjoy! A jury of twenty-four art professionals selected the works on view from more than twelve hundred entries in the categories of Architecture, Ceramics and Glass, Comic Art, Design, Digital Art, Drawing, Fashion, Film and Animation, Jewelry, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Video Games.

Award-winning students are recognized at awards ceremonies in Windhover Hall. The Silver Key Award denotes special statewide recognition; artworks receiving a Gold Key Award go on to compete at the national level, with entries from over seventy other regional competitions throughout the nation. Students whose work receives a Silver or Gold Medal at the national level are honored at Carnegie Hall in May. The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, located in New York City, oversees the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards program nationally.

The Scholastic Art Awards have been recognizing and encouraging excellence in the visual arts throughout the United States for over eighty years. Since 1976, the Wisconsin Regional component has been hosted by the Milwaukee Art Museum, where thousands of young people and their teachers have been encouraged and inspired in their artistic endeavors. Many winners of the Scholastic Art Awards go on to achieve distinction in the fields of fine and applied arts and design, and credit the early recognition they received as participants in the Scholastic Art Awards.