EARN A FASHION SCHOLARSHIP AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF INDIANAPOLIS Enter the Art Institutes Passion for Fashion 2009 Competition
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(Indianapolis,IN October 12, 2009) – Do you love fashion and want to turn your love of the industry into a career? The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition gives high school students interested in the highly competitive fashion industry an opportunity to earn a full tuition scholarship to study fashion design or fashion & retail management at The Art Institute of Indianapolis.
Open to high school seniors throughout the U.S. and Canada, The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition was created to encourage and reward young fashion talent at the high school level.
Last year the local winner at The Art Institute of Indianapolis placed third nationally and earned a $15,000 scholarship. Academic Director of Fashion Design Natalie Swindell is proud of what Indianapolis has accomplished. “There is fashion in Indianapolis,” said Swindell. “We have shown students that fashion opportunities can and do exist in Indiana and hope this year we are just as competitive.”
The competition consists of two categories, (1) fashion design, and (2) fashion marketing and fashion and retail management. The grand prize in each category includes a full tuition scholarship to The Art Institutes school with a fashion program at which the student entered the competition.
In this year’s Passion for Fashion Competition, students will be asked to create an original “evening wear” design for the Fashion Design category or an original Fashion Marketing, Merchandising or Retail Management plan for the Fashion Marketing category.
The grand prize winner in each category earns a full-tuition scholarship to an Art Institutes school to study in a fashion program. Each grand prize winner, in partnership with Seventeen Magazine, also receives a trip to New York City to attend a Fashion Week show, attends a “meet and greet” at Seventeen Magazine’s offices, lunches with a Seventeen Magazine Style Pro, and receives a $500 shopping spree.
To be eligible, students must be seniors in high school, set to graduate in 2010, complete an Entry & Release Form, have a minimum cumulative G.P.A. of at least 2.0, write a short essay describing their interest in fashion, and submit a garment/product or plan (for complete details, please visit www.artinstitutes.edu/pr.aspx?ID=p4f1000).
Deadline for entries into The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition is November 20, 2009. For more information on how to enter The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition and for official rules, visit www.artinstitutes.edu/pr.aspx?ID=p4f1000 or contact The Art Institute of Indianapolis at 317.613.4800 or 1.866.441.9031 or online at www.artinstitutes.edu/indianapolis.
The Art Institute of Indianapolis is one of The Art Institutes (www.artinstitutes.edu), a system of over 40 education institutions located throughout North America, providing an important source of design, media arts, fashion and culinary arts professionals. For more information visit us at www.artinstitutes.edu/Indianapolis.
The Art Institute of Indianapolis is regulated by The Indiana Commission on Proprietary Education 302 W Washington St, Room E201 Indianapolis, IN 46204 Toll Free Number 1-800-227-5695 Or (317) 232-1320 AC - 0080