Taking Up Space: Selections from the 2024 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards’ Scholarships and Gold Medal Awards is on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education. 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, based on originality, skill, and emergence of a personal voice or vision. On view is a collection of artworks by creative and thoughtful young artists, who, with various motivations, felt compelled and empowered to interpret the world around them. They ask: Can you see how I see? Can you feel how I feel?

On View: Now through February 23, 2025
Location: The Met Fifth Avenue in Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education
Admission: Free
Learn more: Taking Up Space at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Featured image: Dennis Parker, Fabricated Authenticity, Painting. Grade 12, Buckeye Valley High School, Delaware, OH. Thomas Chaney, Educator; Columbus College of Art & Design, Affiliate. Silver Medal Portfolio, Derek Fordjour Art Portfolio