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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 August, 2008

63 Days!

Have you started thinking about what you’ll enter come November 1st to potentially win $5,000. But hey. don’t limit yourself to just one category. You can enter all SIX and maybe a 7th fort he Film Festival early next year. If you don’t make it, you’ll cherish the experience. Who knows what’s IN you until […]

September 23 Semi Moved To Oct. 7th

Due to hurricane Ike, we are moving the Sept 23rd semi final to Oct. 7th meaning there will be two in October with the regularly scheduled Oct. 21st and the postponed Sept 23rd to Oct. 7th.
1-Bethany Trevino is a Sophmore at Klein Collins where Jeannie Bryant and Jody Hass have taught her. Bethany was […]

Young Voices Of Houston

The first competition is October 7th. In order to be approved, simply do the following:
1-Send us a brief bio on yourself as regards your singing background and accomplishments
2-Choose a song and give us the title (Pop or Broadway only)
3-Get a teacher to recommend you
Email that information to Ernie@cultureshapers.com and we’ll advise you as soon as […]

Rhonda Landers

Rhonda just moved from Cinco Ranch to Sealy High School this year to cut down her commute time. Sealy is just inside Austin County and so we’re adding it to the eligibility. You have not because you ask not.

Welcome Back To School!

Catch up with the latest announcements by reading the last few posts while you were on summer vacation. And, stay tuned for more exciting announcements!

6 Categories + Film Festival?

Current funds (can you help us with more sponsors?) only allow us to have six categories this year. We have run anywhere for 5-8 categories over the nine years so far. IF we can get the funds by February ($15,000), our plans are to have a FILM FESTIVAL in March. On one weekend we would […]

Two Announcements

We have officially made two decisions that you can put in your calendars for the
9th annual CultureShapers Visual Arts Campaign.
1-The Awards Banquet will be back at the Geiger Center
for Performing Art as it was last year. And, we’re going back to the earlier format that we
followed for seven […]


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