340 M-DCPS students honored as 2016 Regional Scholastic Art & Writing Award Winners

Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) has named some 340 student artists regional winners of the 2016 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for their original works. An awards reception and ceremony will be held Sunday, Jan. 24, from 12 to 4 p.m. at the Rubell Family Collection (RFC).

The event also kicks off a two-week exhibition show of the students’ art works at RFC, which will be on display until February 7.

Presented by the nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the awards are the country's longest-running and most prestigious award and recognition program for creative students in grades 7–12. This program year, 300,000 works of art and writing were submitted to more than 100 Regional Programs across the country.  Winners are chosen in four categories: Gold Key, Silver Key, Honorable Mention and American Vision Nominees.

Since the program’s founding in 1923, all works are blindly judged based on originality, technical skill and the emergence of a personal vision or voice. For Gold Key-winning pieces of art and writing in the Awards’ 28 categories including flash fiction, poetry, sculpture, video game design and more, the opportunities for recognition will continue when the works are judged again on a national level by a panel of leading creative professionals.