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December 14, 2006
B.J. Adler, Executive Director, Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, and Carina Del Valle Schorski, Portfolio Gold Award Winner, Scholastic Writing Awards of 2005, 12-15-06
Founded in 1923 to provide guidance and support for the next generation of artists and writers, The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers provides resources nationwide to encourage, connect and empower creative youth—through event and online networking, workshops, scholarships and career exploration with alumni role models and industry mentors. The signature program of the Alliance is the Scholastic Art & Writing awards—a platform for creative expression for millions of students across the country as the Alliance brings outstanding visual art and writing created by teenagers to a national audience and encourages their creative journey and career development. In addition to awarding annual scholarships to top portfolio award recipients, the Alliance collaborates with colleges across the country that make an additional $1.5 million in financial aid available to award recipients with exceptional promise.
Since 1923, more than 13 million of America’s most talented junior high and high school students (grades 7-12) have participated in The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and 2.5 million have been recognized and shared in more than $25 million in cash awards and college scholarships. Some notable past recipients include: Andy Warhol, Robert Redford, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Sylvia Plath, Joyce Maynard, Philip Pearlstein, Joyce Carol Oates and Bernard Malamud. Today, The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards continue to fulfill its mission of providing a creative platform of expression for millions of students across the country.
B.J. Adler has been Executive Director of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers since 1998. She brings to her position as Executive Director more than 20 years of experience as a leader in arts education. Ms. Adler began her career as a classroom teacher in Kansas City, MO, and later ran the Kansas City Chapter of Young Audiences. There, she was responsible for the creation of a program called Learning Through the Arts, combining the resources of the cultural and educational communities to bring the arts to students, and to harness the power of the arts in the teaching of other academic subjects. Ms. Adler was the Executive Director of Chamber Music America from 1982-1985 and Education Director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center from 1987-1992. Prior to accepting her current position with the Alliance she served as National Education Director of Young Audiences from 1992-1998. Ms. Adler has served as a consultant to a number of arts education organizations, including ArtsConnection, the 92nd Street Y, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Alliance for the Arts, and the New York Philharmonic. She is the author of a policy paper on the role of the arts in the New York City Public Schools.
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