The morning of September 11th I was upset because I had been too late for school to stop for an iced coffee before my government class. That night I remembered the coffee and my class—I remembered being sure of the world. I wondered if I could go back to that feeling, that moment where coffee was important and I knew without a doubt that people were basically good.

A respectful imagination. We think of imagination as a rule-breaking activity—the kind of restlessness that invents jazz, telephones or time-lapse photography. But the student work in the exhibit shows us a different sort of imagination—one that sets, rather than overturns, rules.

	Melissa Choi, Age 15, Creedo Art Academy, NY
	Kate Fletcher, Age 17, Midwood High School, Brooklyn
	Jessica Forte, Age 13, Barkalow Middle School, NJ
	Lu Han, Stuyvesant High School, Manhattan
	Laura Johnstone, Age 16, Midwood High School, Brooklyn
	Harris Solomon, Age 16, St. Ann's School, Brooklyn
	Erik Lindman, Age 16, The Dalton School, NY
	Sam Obenhaus, Age 15, Friends Seminary, NY
	Samira Sizdahkhani, Age 16, Winston Churchill High School, Maryland
	Roger Tooze, Age 12, Paulo IS 75, Staten Island