“It’s like seeing an all-star roster, and there are no bad choices. You’re seeing amazing, amazing, beautiful artwork. And you’re having to vote the best of the best of the best. We don’t have any quotas, like we can only choose five kindergartners, we just choose the best art.”
Alison Scott-Williams, the president of Studio in a School NYC, was telling me about the difficult task of choosing the very best art from the over 1,200 pieces submitted this year for the PS Art program. Now in its 21st year, PS Art is an annual showing of the best of the best artwork made by K-12 students in New York City public schools, exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As Scott-Williams shared with me, whittling down those 1,200-plus submissions to the 122 on display was daunting work, but worth it. “It’s a gift to be able to support young people in this way,” she said.
