Nicole Heppard Recognized by Scholastic 2016 Artistic Achievement Awards

Bloomfield Hills, MI, May 31, 2016 (Newswire.com) - ​​Nicole Heppard, a Cranbrook Kingswood high school senior, is a national Scholastic Art Award winner again this year, for the third year in a row. She won a gold medal for her art portfolio and also in mixed media for a piece of woven textile art.

In addition, the award-winner received silver medals in both categories of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards that celebrates the literary and visual artwork created by students across the United States.

Heppard also was a winner in last year’s competition when her artwork was selected by Art.Write.Now DC for her creation, a mixed media piece titled “Tree Trunk Hypnosis.” It remains on exhibit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Washington, D.C. through this August, sponsored through the U.S. Department of Education and the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

Art.Write.Now is an extension of the Scholstic & Writing Awards program established in the 1920s by Maurice Robinson, founder of the Scholastic Publishing Company.

Former award winners include artist Andy Warhol, photographer Richard Avedon, filmmaker Ken Burns, writers Truman Capote and Joyce Carol Oates and actors Robert Redford and Alan Arkin, all of whom continued to achieve distinction in their artististic fields. Award categories include comic art, journalism, poetry and sculpture and many more. Student winners receive opportunities for recognition, exhibition, publication and scholarships.

Heppard was among four Cranbrook Kingswood students this year who received a combined total seven nation medals for creative works, a record for Upper School student medalists at the prestigious private school in Bloomfields Hills, MI.

The private preparatory school is part of a 300-acre National Historic Landmark campus and has been noted for its arts program since its founding in 1927, designed by world-renowned Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. His conception and design for the buildings were influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement. In addition to its 70 athletic teams, the school has always placed great emphasis on the importance of the arts and artists in society.

The National Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards are the largest and longest-standing recognition program for exceptionally creative students grades 7 through 12. Students in the United States, Canada and American schools abroad submit more than 150,000 examples of their artistic works and writing for evaluation by professionals, educators and scholars of the fine arts each year.

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Source: FrontStreet PR