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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!

Archive for March, 2007

Sculptor is Seeking Summer Apprentice

Job consists of working in a studio with sculptor as well as in the foundry for bronze casting when necessary. Work is figurative. Your duties would include anything from smoothing clay, helping to make armatures for life-size sculpture, assisting me with working waxes for the bronze process and clean up. Click here to read more [...]

Culture Shapers Alumni Nominated for the Tommy Tune Awards!

On Thursday, March 22, 2007, John C. Breckenridge, President and CEO of Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS), announced the nominations for TUTS’ fifth annual Tommy Tune Awards. Among those names are several students who have participated in Culture Shapers’ Young Voices of Houston performing arts competition. The awards ceremony will be held on Tuesday, April [...]

Culture Shapers Alumni, Wenjun Liu, sells painting for $100,000!

Congratulations to Culture Shapers Alumni, Wenjun Liu, for winning runner-up in the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo’s art auction on Sunday, March 18th. Her painting entitled, Your Legacy, sold for $100,000. Liu gets $15,000. The painting of father and child watching a sunset was meant to represent western tradition, Liu said.
“I want [...]

Campaign for Creativity – H Texas Magazine

A huge thank you to Sarah Pollard for the great coverage in the March issue of H Texas magazine!

Eighty-nine percent of Americans believe that arts education should have a place in schools; however, diminishing budgets and other factors continue to decrease the number of arts programs offered in both schools and communities. Culture Shapers, a [...]

The Final Two!!!

Having only the judges vote didn’t hurt the attendance at all- 200+ people showed up to cheer for their favorites.
The last two to transfer to the April 9th finals were both “first timers” in the CultureShapers event. Congratulations to Anna Price (Senior at Klein Oak) who won $500 and 1st place. Second place and [...]

Last Semi-Final Round: March 5th

Here are the participants in the LAST Semifinal of this season, in order of performance. Also, to allow more contestants, we will have judge voting only! The audience will not vote, but bring your friends and family to root you on.

ERIN HARDY is a junior at Cy Creek. This will be Erin’s second attempt at [...]