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Poster Design Competition to Offer $200,000 in Scholarships to Talented High School Designers
- (November 17, 2004)
High school students interested in a design career will have a unique opportunity to put their artistic talents to the test by entering the Poster Design Scholarship Competition, sponsored by The Art Institutes and Americans for the Arts.
Students will create original poster artwork that expresses the slogan, "Art is a Global Language." More than $200,000 in scholarships will be awarded, with the first place prize-winning student receiving a $25,000 scholarship to study design at one of 31 Art Institutes locations throughout North America. Entry deadline is February 11, 2005.
"We're pleased to be collaborating with Americans for the Arts because we believe, as educators, this is a critical time to support and strengthen the universal role that the arts play in our lives and in the world," says Stacy Sweeney, President of The New England Institute of Art, located in Brookline, Massachusetts.
According to Robert L. Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts, "as funding for arts programs continue to be slashed in federal and state budgets, we want young people to remember that art is a valuable communication tool, helping us to transcend language barriers and cultures, a tool that needs to promoted and preserved."
The competition takes place in two stages; a preliminary competition will be held at the 31 Art Institutes locations in the US and Canada in March. Winners from the preliminary competition will have their entries placed into consideration for the final stage and national judging, which takes place in April.
The first-place winner and other top national winners' work will be used in a promotional calendar for Americans for the Arts, to be distributed to high schools across North America. In addition, Americans for the Arts will create an online gallery of all scholarship winning artwork on its Web site http://www.americansforthearts.org. In addition to the online gallery, the first-place winner's poster will be used in national marketing materials for Americans for the Arts.
The contest is for graduating high school seniors interested in pursuing a career in design. Students must submit an original poster design, a current high school transcript and a statement describing their design process, and why they want to attend one of The Art Institutes. In April, an industry panel of judges selected by Americans for the Arts and The Art Institutes will assess each student's poster based on the specified criteria. Contestants are notified of their winnings by May 6, 2005.
Locations participating include: The Art Institute of Washington (Arlington, VA), The Art Institute of Atlanta, The New England Institute of Art (Brookline, MA), The Art Institute of California - Orange County, The Art Institute of California - San Diego, The Art Institute of California - San Francisco, The Art Institute of Charlotte, The Art Institute of Colorado, The Art Institute of Dallas, The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, The Art Institute of Houston, The Art Institute of Las Vegas, Miami International University of Art Design (Miami, FL), The Art Institutes International Minnesota, The Art Institute of Philadelphia, The Art Institute of Phoenix, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, The Art Institute of Portland, The Art Institute of Seattle, The Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago, The Illinois Institute of Art-Schaumburg, The Art Institute of Vancouver and The Art Institute of Vancouver-Burnaby.
For more information on the competition or an application, visit www.artinstitutes.edu/poster.
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