Senior’s Photograph to be Displayed in Washington, D.C.

Senior Sophie Levine’s black and white photograph “Disconnect 3” will be on display in Washington, D.C., as part of the exhibition ART.WRITE.NOW. Earlier this year, Sophie won a Scholastic Art & Writing Award gold medal at the national level for the photograph. The goal of the yearlong ART.WRITE.NOW exhibit, which is being hosted by the U.S. Department of Education, is to “expose audiences to an annual selection of the most stunning and original work by winning students from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.”

 

Sophie was invited to attend the celebratory ribbon-cutting ceremony for the event, which will be held at The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building on Sept. 19. Her photograph will be on display at the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities main office beginning that day.

 

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards was founded in 1923 to recognize the talent of America’s creative youth. Past winners include Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon and Ken Burns.

 

In a letter notifying Sophie’s teacher Janice Gomez about the photograph’s inclusion in the exhibit, a representative of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards wrote, “We are honored to present Sophie’s art as an example of the very best creative work by our nation’s emerging young artists.”