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IUPUI Professor Will Deliver Keynote at Awards Ceremony for Creative Teenagers

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Karen KovacikIndiana State Poet Laureate Karen Kovacik, a professor of English at IUPUI, will be the keynote speaker for the Central and Southern Indiana Scholastic Art and Writing Awards ceremony.

Almost 600 middle and high school students will receive Central and Southern Indiana Scholastic Art & Writing Awards during a ceremony at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, at Clowes Memorial Hall, 4602 Sunset Ave. on the Butler University campus.

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the nation’s largest, longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teenagers in the visual and literary arts.

During the awards ceremony, 527 students will receive regional awards in 17 different arts categories and 41 students will receive awards in six writing categories. The regional winners are recognized at three levels: honorable mention, silver key and gold key. The ceremony will also include the presentation of a $500 scholarship from Kappa Kappa Kappa and a scholarship from the Herron School of Art and Design at IUPUI.

Kovacik, who directs the creative writing program at IUPUI, will lead a workshop for the writing winners following the awards ceremony.

Elizabeth Mix, associate professor of art history at the Jordan College of Fine Arts at Butler University, will direct a workshop for the winners in the art categories.

Clowes Memorial Hall and the Hoosier Writing Project at IUPUI are sponsoring the Central and Southern Indiana Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. This year’s winners were selected from 1,902 art entries and 155 writing entries received from 58 schools in 20 Indiana counties.

All regional gold key winners were submitted to the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards program for consideration for national “medal” awards. The national awards will be determined on March 15, 2012. National judges also select the American Visions (Art) and American Voices (Writing) winners from a small group nominated by local judges.

The nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, which administers the awards, will honor national winners at a special ceremony at the world-famous Carnegie Hall in New York City. Select award-winning art and writing will be exhibited at the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery in Lower Manhattan.

Published on: February 22, 2012