<p>ok I am asking for either congrats or cold dose of reality or both..what is the view of a scholastic award at the national level? S just received word that he received a silver for his portfolio and a couple of other kids at the school got awards for individual pieces. The school put it as a small announcement on the web page and a morning announcement which brings it to the level of winning a district championship in debate but not on the level of wining district AAA basketball which merits a pep rally. I mean, c'mon, basketball is a whoooolllle different category of school pride. </p>
<p>I was very chuffed since his most ambitious piece in the portfolio was labeled "unfinished" (with good reason). If unfinished merits silver....what could he accomplish if he actually finished something? (to be fair, this piece has, in fact, been completed). S seems to think it is no big deal. Do we email/mail schools about this? I am psyched. BandD and others...please let this non-art mom have a reality check if needed..."slap, slap...get a grip" kind of posts are welcome if deserved. Even if it represents "establishment, main stream validation of middle class art values" it seems to mean a trip to NYC...we can check out the dumpster behind Coopers!!!</p>
<p>tell certain high caliber U right now before he gon’ visiting, tell yet more high uppy U before they gave him acceptance, tell weird artschool that give discounts instead of scholarships since he can’t go to their party.
too bad it’s not gold, but hey, it’s NATIONAL, what, one of 10-sh? that’s darn good.
Now I get to see what who this kido is if they’d publish big catalog that lists entire winners like used to, hope that happens in this tight economy and save the world/tree psyc.
I am entirely jealous now, don’t call me up no more !!</p>
<p>and don’t fall into the trap eating at Carnegie deli of sort, I hate seeing those country bumkins’ families with proud blue ribbons milling around midtown that day (sour loser)
oh oh but don’t miss William Kentridge at MoMA, it is literally around the corner from Carnegie hall, I haven’t seen it yet but your kid gotta luv his works</p>
<p>fineartsmajormom: Congrats to your son! I also won a silver nationally for my portfolio. Initially I thought it was no big deal but was told that- at least at my school, the last person to win a national medal went to the school 8 years ago. So I’d say it’s pretty big.</p>
<p>In terms of contacting colleges, there’s a list on the Scholastic Art and Writing site (artandwriting.org) in which lists the colleges that will give merit awards based on National awards.</p>
<p>it’s an accomplishment to be proud of, that’s for sure, but it doesn’t do much in terms of college scholarship, unless you are applying to MICA, which has an award specifically for scholastic winners</p>
<p>it also helps for third party scholarships, as you can list it as an award, but aside from that it’s mostly bragging righs</p>
<p>just looked up. when is the ceremony? Kentridge ends at May 17th, Tim Burton ends in April. haw, you can’t have it all, now that I really really want famkid to see them.</p>
<p>Hey…thanks for all the congrats…love the bragging rights! That portfolio almost never made it to the regionals because of the first big eastern snowstorm in December. We left it with friends because we were out of town and they slogged through the snow to deliver it.</p>
<p>The most excited person is his long time mentor/private art teacher…has a studio in her garage and deals with lots of suburban kids and moms who want johnny to draw a nice landscape (that’s what I had in mind when he started). She never minded that S always did his own weird stuff…her classes just gave him space/easel and some technical guidance and an escape from me saying “what is that?”. </p>
<p>Ceremony is sometime in June which is scary because so is graduation. Definitely we will be careful to try not to look like hayseeds in NY but…I stick out like a southern sore thumb. Over 25 years ago I was young and looking for a summer job in NYC. Little white southern girl, dressed in light colors and white shoes (it was summer!) surrounded by people in dark clothes/glasses/skin and someone comes close and mutters something about a “nickel.” So I stop, hunt in my purse (that, of course, matched my shoes) for a nickel and hand it to the guy…who throws it at me and says, “Dumb B***, I’m talking nickle BAG!” My NY city friend almost died of laughter on the spot! He is still there and always takes good care of us when we visit. Says that I am an embarrassment but what can you do after 30 years of friendship. </p>
<p>Thanks for the advice about the school notification…I will check with teacher to see if she will notify schools or if S should do this.</p>
<p>famm - Congrats! The principle at my D’s school would have not put anything on the school website or morning announcements. Every am they have a list of kids and what colleges they were accepted to. When acceptance #1 came, they sent a copy to the school, and the principle handed the letter to her, like he had no clue what that meant. They also have a senior spotlight which her art teacher put her in for, but the art kids never are in it unless they scored the winning touchdown as well. They just don’t get it there. We re-sent my D’s updated portfolio to a school where she had already been accepted and gotten a scholarship , and they offered her more $ So I say it certainly couldn’t hurt.</p>
<p>B&D - we saw the Kentridge exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago last year I think it was. Truly amazing! Films were my favorites.</p>
<p>so is it traveling show? then maybe famkid could get see it somewhere else, I’ll check it up.
thing is, Chicago get everything (almost) like, this Luc Tuyman I waited so long won’t even come to NYC but Chicago. I think it’s a conspiracy. no, I like Obama and United States, don’t hate me.</p>
<p>by the way, fineartsmajormom, when and how did you find out about the silver award? i am waiting to hear back from scholastics as well, though mine is for an individual submission and not a portoflio award</p>
<p>The teacher told him and the other kids. I think she knew last week but couldn’t say anything. I suspect that Scholastic informed the regional or at large organizations last week who then let the teachers know. Our region is physically pretty small so everyone on that committee knows all the art teachers at the high schools–maybe 8 teachers total. I don’t even remember if his submission had his home address on it…it all seemed to revolve around the school. I did a search on CC more broadly and see that some kids have gotten official notice and invites to NY but they all seem to be writers, not artists. I will keep my fingers crossed for you and hope you get news soon.</p>
<p>Congratulations to you and your son! Have fun in NYC and don’t worry about what all the hip people wearing black are thinking. You’ll be like a breath of fresh air!</p>
<p>I went to see on Free Fridays and looked up its traveling schedule.
Pretty cool, bit gloomy, could scare little kiddies. I saw parents pulling away small children (actually were quite engaged, visuals are neat un-video game-y way) they wanted to educate badly enough to drag them in there but once torture and gunfire started.</p>
<p>so, conspiracy is rooted in SFMOMA, not Chicago. THEY cook up everything I want, including cute cakes in the cafe that look like Mondrian’s color squares or that cake painting guy’s display.
Sorry fammom, it goes abroad after NYC.
famkid should be able to hunt down projections on internet if he wants to. I guess that is the most important part of this show, though nice to see the actual drawings alongside (huge! I don’t know why but I always thought they are smaller. He must have loads of charcoal ready in his studio)</p>
<p>here, chanel05 if you are still around, for you, I looked up the cake guy’s name I can never remember to spell -Wayne Thiebaud</p>
<p>This sounds right up S’s alley. Thanks for the reference. It is doubtful we will travel to NY before June, but you never know. Still trying to figure out for spring break whether to take S back to one or more of the schools? Problem is that won’t know everything yet–admissions and/or aid.</p>
<p>Packet arrived…yep, June 9 and 10…interesting dilemma because we are still in the middle of the last quarter but IB/AP exams are over for seniors, but not so easy for juniors or sophomores. Interestingly, they actually print out a little speech for kids to read to admissions/FA officers at schools that offer scholarships. The workshops sound like fun and any chance to escape from school can’t be underrated so I suspect the group of awardees from school will try to put it together like a field trip. Thank you Scholastic!</p>
<p>so there will be bunch of pimpley kids with chapelone milling around with proud blue ribbons… mark the dates and avoid 7th ave-Broadway- 50s folks!</p>
<p>Nice to hear there is a school that will let art kids go on a field trip! D’s art teacher arranged for a bus to go to NPD, I was set and cleared as a chaperone. Then at the last minute the principal pulled the whole thing out from under us, and parents ended up driving their own kids and taking along who we could fit. After it was over, the teacher went over his head to make sure this wouldn’t happen next year, and he got suspended. Didn’t show up to class, kids were all in a panic, no one at the school would tell you anything. So this is what our art kids have to deal with. It’s amazing the art kids (and I’m not bragging about my D - but all the art kids - have come as far as they have. They have no idea there are IB and AP art classes out there, magnet schools, kids with private art teachers etc. All our kids and art teachers have had to claw for what they’ve accomplished. They’ve just run out of clay in ceramics and there’s no money to buy more. So what do you do with 2 months left in the school year? You teach printmaking, because there’s still some cheap paper someplace. I have to keep telling the kids, their lack of merit aid is in no way indicative of what they have inside them.</p>
<p>And BTW, there was no mention of Scholastic Awards at her school. We don’t even have a regional affiliate.</p>
bummer…</p>
D’s art teacher arranged for a bus to go to NPD, I was set and cleared as a chaperone. Then at the last minute the principal pulled the whole thing out from under us, and parents ended up driving their own kids and taking along who we could fit. After it was over, the teacher went over his head to make sure this wouldn’t happen next year, and he got suspended. Didn’t show up to class, kids were all in a panic, no one at the school would tell you anything. So this is what our art kids have to deal with. It’s amazing the art kids (and I’m not bragging about my D - but all the art kids - have come as far as they have. They have no idea there are IB and AP art classes out there, magnet schools, kids with private art teachers etc. All our kids and art teachers have had to claw for what they’ve accomplished. They’ve just run out of clay in ceramics and there’s no money to buy more. So what do you do with 2 months left in the school year? You teach printmaking, because there’s still some cheap paper someplace. I have to keep telling the kids, their lack of merit aid is in no way indicative of what they have inside them.</p>