Student Artist Wins National Award

What do Andy Warhol, Robert Redford and Joyce Carol Oates have in common with a Hatboro-Horsham High School junior?

Like 11th-grader Haley Manchon, all of these creative geniuses–and many other celebrities–have been recognized by the 90-year-old Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for artistic endeavors ranging from writing, photography and various forms of art.

For her part, Haley, who the Hatboro-Horsham School Board recognized Monday night, will be honored at Carnegie Hall on May 31 with her American Vision Medal. Haley won the esteemed art award for her colored pencil blueprint of Margherita pizza.

"It was my first colored pencil piece," Haley said. "It turned out really well."

So well, in fact, that the piece is on tour for the next two years. Now in New York, the piece will make its rounds in a national tour before spending the following year in Washington, DC, according to Haley.

Founded in 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is the nation's longest-running, educational initiative supporting student achievement in the visual and literary arts and is designed for teens in seventh- through 12th-grades, according to its Web site.