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About the Visual Arts Contest...

The annual Culture Shapers Visual Arts Contest enables student artists to compete for more than $85,000 in cash prizes in six categories... drawing, painting, electronic media, mixed media, photography and sculpture. The contest takes place in the Fall, and is open to all High School Students in Harris, Waller, Liberty, Chambers, Galveston, Brazoria, Fort Bend and Montgomery counties.

Students receive a commemorative t-shirt with their entry fee of $20. Entry forms are downloaded from the website and parents, students or teachers deliver the entries to the drop-off location.

Each year, the Culture Shapers Volunteer Staff receive about 1,500 entries! This year, jurying will take place on Sunday, November 2nd. The top ten finalists in each category are personally invited to the exclusive Awards Night, where the winners are finally announced!

About the Culture Shapers Jurying Process...

Culture Shapers jurors are a combination of educators and professionals, who come highly recommended to us by other notable organizations, such as the Visual Arts Scholastic Event (VASE), as well as others. Many of our jurors have experience both in and out of the classroom, which gives them a unique and valuable perspective on evaluating student artwork. Click here to read more about the Culture Shapers jurying process.

The Visual Arts Awards Ceremony

Click here for details about the Visual Arts Awards Ceremony!

About Young Voices of Houston...

In 2005, Culture Shapers expanded into the performing arts, with the Young Voices of Houston performing arts contest. Featuring ten to twelve of the top vocalists from area high schools, Young Voices provides these talented students the opportunity to perform vocal works for a live audience and compete for cash prizes! Young Voices of Houston competitions are held several times throughout the year. Click here to learn more about Young Voices of Houston!



The Teachers’ 25 Club

Unofficially (still), I want to share with you the names of EIGHT teachers who just did a spectacular job of getting their students involved in the ‘06 CultureShapers campaign. Dozens of teachers, actually hundreds did a great job; however, we want to acknowledge the “25 Club“: the teachers who had at least 25 entries submitted with their names attached as the teacher for the student.
Donna Reedy of Clements has always been a great suporter of CultureShapers, but this year she blew us away with 52 entries! Outstanding Donna. Rhonda Landers of Cinco Ranch came in second with 36 entries.
And congratulations to the following six teachers. Bob Mosier of John Cooper (29), Dee Burgess of Klein (28), Randy Rankin of Klein Collins and Leslie Roznovsky of Brazoswood each had 27, Marilyn Guerinot of Memorial (26), and finally Lisa Canorro of Kerr (25) who always sends us a great picture of all their kids wearing the new years’ version of a CultureShapers T-shirt. You eight all get a free ticket to the Awards Ceremony, November 29th.
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