Friday, November 22, 2024–Sunday, February 23, 2025

This exhibition features a selection of artwork by teens from across the United States who received the highest national recognition in the 2024 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: the Gold and Silver Portfolio Award, The Herblock Award for Editorial Cartoon, the New York Life Award, and the Gold Medal Award. Presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the Scholastic Awards are the longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in the United States. Established in 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards bring the work of young people to regional and national audiences. Former recipients include artists Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Kay WalkingStick, and John Baldessari—all represented in The Met collection—and writers Stephen King, Amanda Gorman, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Each work in the exhibition was selected through a rigorous adjudication process, which sought to award works based on originality, skill, and emergence of a personal voice or vision. Represented here is a collection of artworks by creative and thoughtful young artists, who, with various motivations, felt compelled and empowered to make a brave attempt to interpret the world around them. They ask: Can you see how I see? Can you feel how I feel?

On view beginning November 22, 2024, at the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Fifth Avenue at 81st Street–Lower Entrance, New York, NY 10028.

Image Credits: Walter Sanmartin, Strait; Jada McAliley, Pillow Fight; Charlie Sailor, Through Your Perspective; Dennis Parker, Fabricated Authenticity; Levko Danyliv, The Spectacle