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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 February, 2009

Last Semi-Final : March 17th!

Published by Ernie February 18th in Young Voices of Houston.

Here are our contestants so far……………
1-Ashton Muniz is a junior at Atascocita. He is an active member of the school theatre, choir and orchestra departments. He is part of a school whose art departments focus on amazing ensemble work. Last year our schools theatre arts departments were finalists at the UIL OAP Contest with “Fuente [...]

A Close Contest!

Published by Ernie February 17th in Young Voices of Houston.

The February 17th next-to-last semi final event saw a very close race between third place finisher Elliott Robinson, a junior at Memorial our second place winner Michael Williams, a sophomore at Klein Oak. Michael moves on to the FINAL in April along with first place winner of $500- Sydney Roberts (home-schooled sophomore). On to [...]

Need Money? Portfolio Opportunity

Published by Ernie February 17th in Visual Arts Contest.

If you were one of the TOP TEN in last years CultureShapers Visual Art contest, you are eligible to SELL some of your work at the Annual CultureShapers Wine Auction. To qualify, you must have at least three pieces of art that you are willing to sell (any media) that night. You can bring as [...]

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