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Creative Writers win Silver Awards at YoungArts
For Immediate Release
Students also nominated for 2010 Presidential Scholar in the Arts
GREENVILLE, SC - Three Creative Writing students who were national finalists in the YoungArts Top 2010 Student Artists in the Nation competition won Silver Awards, earning each student a $5,000 cash prize.
Wynne Hungerford, Uchechi Kalu and Jake Ross participated in YoungArts Week!, January 11-16 in Miami, where adjudicators determined Gold and Silver Award winners and also nominated 2010 Presidential Scholars in the Arts. Each of the Governor's School students received a Presidential Scholars nomination.
Hungerford, Kalu and Ross will travel to New York in the spring for the In the Studio series, an additional week of workshops, collaborative performances and exhibitions. If named Presidential Scholars in the Arts, the students will be given an award at the White House in June and will have an opportunity to perform at the Kennedy Center and exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.
YoungArts is the core program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA). The program recognizes and supports America's most talented 17-18 year olds in the visual, literary and performing arts.
Only 143 national finalists were selected from 4,000 applicants. Governor's School students accounted for three of South Carolina's five national finalists and were among only 21 literary finalists selected nationally.
Hungerford and Ross, of Greenville, are former students of Wade Hampton High School and the Fine Arts Center. Kalu of Orangeburg, previously attended Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School.
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