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The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have an impressive legacy dating back to 1923, when Scholastic Founder, Robbie Robinson, started the program as a way to honor the creative achievement of high school students. Some things have changed with the Awards over the years—new categories like Comic Art and Video Game Design—but a few things have not. First is freedom of expression! The Scholastic Awards places no limitations on content; students are free to pursue any idea or topic in…

Scholastic Art & Writing South Central Kentucky Regional Affiliate Students Announced as 2018 Regional Scholastic Art & Writing Award Recipients Over 100 Young Artists and Writers Recognized by SKyPAC for their Original WorksBowling Green, KY— February 9, 2018— SKyPAC has announced the regional award recipients of the 2018 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Presented by the nonprofit organization the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the 95th Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the country’s longest-running and most prestigious scholarship…

SKyPAC is proud to be the regional affiliate and join in celebrating 95 years of Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.  The student exhibition opens Thursday, February 1 and will run through the end of March. There will be a reception in the Laura Goad Turner Foundation Lobby on Saturday, March 3rd, 2018, from 12:00-2:00 p.m. We will celebrate the work of students and educators in over thirty counties in the region! The awards will begin promptly at 12:30 p.m.  Please…

The Art of Internationally Renowned Artist Joe Downing Opens Next Week! Exhibition Dates: January 16 – March 29, 2018 How does it happen that a Horse Cave boy hangs a painting in the Louvre? Is it fate, determination, destiny or hope that causes the colors from shafts of light in the caves to find their way to 200-year-old barn doors? Born in Tompkinsville, Ky. on November 15, 1925, Joe Downing was one of eight children born to Aldridge Clifton and…