Young Artists and Writers Recognized for Their Original Works by Central and Southern Indiana Art and Writing Region of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
The Central and Southern Indiana Art and Writing Region of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards has announced the regional award winners of the 2025 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The Central and Southern Indiana Region is coordinated by the Hoosier Writing Project in the English Department of the IU School of Liberal Arts in Indianapolis. Presented nationally by the nonprofit organization the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the country’s longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative students in grades 7–12. This year, more than 100,000 teens from across the United States and Canada entered more than 300,000 works of art and writing. In central and southern Indiana, over 600 works received regional honors. Judges included artists, writers, educators, and editors.
In celebration of this year’s regional award winners, the annual Voices and Visions Award Ceremony will be held on Saturday, March 8, 2025, at 2:00 pm in the Madam Walker Legacy Center in Indianapolis. Gold Key works will be shared through a regional anthology (available starting March 10 online and in print) and several exhibits, starting with one in the Cultural Arts Gallery in the IU Indianapolis Campus Center, Feb. 3-27. Lists of all the award winning works and students can be found in this Google Drive Folder.
Since the program’s founding in 1923, the Awards have fostered the creativity and talent of millions of students and include a distinguished list of alumni such as Tschabalala Self, Stephen King, Kay WalkingStick, Amanda Gorman, Charles White, Joyce Carol Oates, and Andy Warhol, all of whom received recognition in the Awards when they were teens.
For Gold Key works of art and writing in the Awards’ 28 categories, the opportunities for recognition will continue when the works are considered for national honors, including a wealth of additional opportunities, such as scholarships and inclusion in the National Exhibition and Scholastic Awards Traveling Exhibition, the annual anthology of award-winning teen writing, and the annual catalogue of award-winning teen art. Poets who win national awards are considered for the National Student Poets Program, the nation’s highest honor for young poets presenting original work. National awards will be announced on March 26, 2025.
For more information about the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, visit the Scholastic Newsroom: http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/artandwriting. For more information about the Central and Southern Indiana Region or the Hoosier Writing Project, contact Prof. Steve Fox.
