Stephanie Rae Cleaves poses
with her apparel design at the
Diane von Furstenberg Studio.
Highlights of 2004-2005:
Audiences
and Advocacy for Emerging Work
Throughout the year, the Alliance increased
exposure of the work of emerging artists and writers to larger
audiences. 20,000 copies of the National Awards Catalog
of 2005 were printed and distributed to students, teachers,
educators and regional affiliates across the country. The
Best Teen Writing anthology was released at the National Council
Teachers of English conference in Indianapolis; 10,000 copies
were distributed throughout the 50 states to the NCTE leadership
as a tool for benchmarking the standard of excellence for
high school writers. To date, the virtual
galleries have hosted more than 252,000 unique visitors
and the work of the 2005 award recipients is now available
for online viewing. Exhibitions of student work were on display
for growing audiences at the Diane von Furstenberg Studio
(NYC), Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Scholastic
Inc. (NYC), the Office of the President’s Committee
on the Arts & Humanities (Washington, DC), and the U.S.
Department of Education, (Washington, DC). |