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Celebrity guests Tina Fey, Rose Byrne, Zac Posen, Tracy K. Smith and Astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz award America'due south nigh artistic teen artists and writers

NEW YORK, NY – June 7, 2019 – More than 800 teen artists and writers were celebrated Thursday evening at the earth-famous Carnegie Hall in New York City as National Medalists in the 2019 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards—the nation's longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for artistic teens, presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. Emmy® and Aureate Globe® Award-winning actress, writer and producer Tina Fey (SNL, thirty Rock) opened the anniversary past giving insight into her experience as a artistic individual working in the arts, as well equally advice for the students as they move forward in their lives, regardless of the paths they choose. Lucianne Walkowicz, prominent Astronomer at the Adler Planetarium and co-founder of The JustSpace Alliance, received the 2019 Alumni Achievement Award, which was presented by young man Scholastic Art & Writing Awards alumnus Zac Posen, style designer and founder of luxury make Business firm of Z. During the ceremony, Emmy and Gilded Globe-nominated actress Rose Byrne (Bridesmaids, Damages) and 22nd poet laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith took the phase to congratulate students for their exemplary piece of work, encouraging them to remain true to their craft.

"The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are honored to keep their long history of celebrating and empowering our land's immature educatee artists and writers," said Christopher Wisniewski, Executive Director of the Alliance for Immature Artists & Writers. "This year, we saw nearly 340,000 works submitted to the program and felt the honesty, authenticity, power and beauty in the work. Teen artists and writers continue to push the boundaries of their creativity and create discourse on the issues and topics most important to them. We are proud to provide a platform for them and laurels them with this recognition."

More than 2,700 teens in grades vii–12, ages 13 and up, from the U.Southward., Canada, and American schools abroad received national recognition, including 16 loftier schoolhouse seniors who received the program'southward highest national honor—the Gold Medal Portfolio—forth with a $10,000 scholarship. The Brotherhood annually provides more than than $300,000 in scholarships to tiptop Awards recipients and continually partners with esteemed colleges and universities to make scholarships available for college-spring National Medalists.

For video and photos from the 2019 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards National Ceremony, visit: http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/artandwriting#downloads.

2019 National Anniversary Quotes

Tina Fey, Emmy and Golden Globe Accolade-winning actress, author and producer: "Having the feel and achievement of what you lot've already done, the great thing is that no matter what yous end upwards doing, yous've already accessed the creative office of your life and of yourself. You take all had the feel of making something where there one time was naught, so you lot know that annihilation is possible."

Lucianne Walkowicz, prominent astronomer, multimedia artist, former chair of Astrobiology at the Library of Congress, and 2019 Scholastic Fine art & Writing Awards Alumni Achievement Award Recipient: "Every bit someone who's made their career in the sciences as opposed to the arts, I really have establish it challenging at times to maintain space for my artistic practise in my life. In office that's because at that place are 24 hours in a solar day and you're supposed to eat and sleep some of that time, only also it's because we live in a earth where people sometimes try to put us in boxes so that we tin be easier to ascertain. And that is to be resisted at all costs."

Rose Byrne, Emmy and Gold Earth-nominated actress: "Know your power, know that your vulnerability can also exist your power, keep asking questions, go on listening, go on beingness creative and keep striving."

Nearly the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

Founded in 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are presented by the 501(c)iii nonprofit organization the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, and are made possible through the generosity of Scholastic Inc., The Maurice R. Robinson Fund, New York Life Foundation, Wells Fargo Foundation, Command Web Commencement Co., The New York Times, Blick Art Materials & Utrecht Art Supplies, The Herb Block Foundation, Golden Artist Colors, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Entertainment Software Association Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Metropolis Department of Cultural Affairs, Amazon Literary Partnership, and numerous other individual, foundation, and corporate funders; and, for the National Student Poets Programme, the Establish of Museum and Library Services and the Poetry Foundation.

For more data virtually the Alliance for Immature Artists & Writers, visit www.artandwriting.org.

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Tracy K. Smith, 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States is pictured with the 2018 National Student Poets at the National Anniversary for the 2019 Scholastic Fine art & Writing Awards held at Carnegie Hall in New York, Th June 6, 2019. (Stuart Ramson/AP Images for Alliance for Young Artists & Writers)

Emmy and Aureate Globe Accolade-winning actress, author and producer Tina Fey is pictured with Gold Medal Portfolio recipients backstage at the National Ceremony for the 2019 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards held at Carnegie Hall in New York, Thursday June half-dozen, 2019. (Stuart Ramson/AP Images for Alliance for Young Artists & Writers)

From 2nd left to right, 2nd row, Tracy 1000. Smith, 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States, Emmy and Aureate Globe Award-winning actress, author and producer Tina Fey, Chairman and CEO of Scholastic Richard Robinson, fashion designer Zac Posen, astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz and Emmy and Gold Globe nominated extra Rose Byrne, are pictured with Gold Medal Portfolio recipients backstage at the National Anniversary for the 2019 Scholastic Fine art & Writing Awards held at Carnegie Hall in New York, Thursday June six, 2019. (Stuart Ramson/AP Images for Alliance for Young Artists & Writers)

Emmy and Golden World Honor-winning actress, author and producer Tina Fey addresses students, their families and educators at the National Ceremony for the 2019 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards held at Carnegie Hall in New York, Thursday June 6, 2019. (Stuart Ramson/AP Images for Alliance for Immature Artists & Writers)

Zac Posen, fashion designer and Founder of House of Z presents the 2019 Alumni Achievement Award to Lucianne Walkowicz, astronomer at the Adler Planetarium and co-founder of The JustSpace Alliance, at the National Ceremony for the 2019 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards held at Carnegie Hall in New York, Thursday June 6, 2019. (Stuart Ramson/AP Images for Brotherhood for Young Artists & Writers)

Emmy and Aureate Globe nominated actress Rose Byrne addresses students, their families and educators at the National Ceremony for the 2019 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards held at Carnegie Hall in New York, Thursday June 6, 2019. (Stuart Ramson/AP Images for Alliance for Young Artists & Writers)

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Writer, actress and producer Tina Fey (SNL, xxx Rock); Chairman and CEO of Scholastic Richard Robinson; 22nd poet laureate of the United states Tracy K. Smith; astronomer and 2019 Alumni Achievement Award recipient Lucianne Walkowicz; and actress Rose Byrne (Bridesmaids, Damages) address students, their families, and educators at the 2019 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards National Ceremony held at Carnegie Hall in New York, Th, June 6, 2019.

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