Novi High School Students Earn National Recognition For Artwork

NOVI, MI – Four Novi High School students have earned national recognition in the 2017 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Senior Hannah ‘Oliver’ Davis earned a gold medal for her ceramic and glass creation, while juniors Joanne Kwon and Deeya Chaturvedi, and senior Shrinali Patel took home silver medals for their drawings. Kwon received silver medals for two separate illustrations.

The Novi High students were recently identified by panels of creative professionals in New York City as the most talented young artists and writers in the nation. This year, more than 330,000 works of art and writing were submitted with only the top one percent gaining national-level recognition for exemplify the Awards’ core values: originality, technical skill, and the emergence of personal voice or vision.

Davis’ award-winning artwork, a Fenrir Teapot, will be sent to New York where it will be showcased for the next two years alongside more than 1,000 of the freshest and most engaging visual and literary works from students nationwide.

Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Are presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. The creative teens that will be featured in the exhibition follow in the footsteps of past Scholastic Awards recipients Andy Warhol, Dan Fogelberg, Steven King, Truman Capote, John Lithgow, Frances Farmer, Robert Redford, Joyce Carol Oates, Ken Burns, and many other notable artists and writers.

Photos courtesy of Novi Community Schools