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About the Visual Arts Contest...

The annual Culture Shapers Visual Arts Contest enables student artists to compete for more than $70,000 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. Entry forms will be e-mailed to the teacher after online registration. Teachers or students deliver and pickup the entries at the drop-off location at Westfield High School.

Each year, the Culture Shapers Volunteer Staff receive about 1,500 entries! This year, jurying will take place on Sunday, October 31st. The top ten finalists in each category are personally invited to the exclusive Awards Banquet on Wednesday, December 8th at Shirley Acres, where the winners are finally announced before a live audience!

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 November, 2009

Twelve Confirmed

We now have 12 people approved for January 26th. Since there isn’t a December contest, we’re two months away from the 4th semi final and that usually means that there will probably be cancellations (sickness, schedule changes, etc.) so we will take 4 BACK UPS- in the order received. Once we have all sixteen confirmed [...]

3rd Semi Final Winners

For the first time ever it was a TIE between 1 and 2. We went back to the judges for them to decide between the two and getting the FIRST PLACE nod was Bethany Trevino (and $500). Coming in SECOND and transferring automatically to the April Finals is Jackson Perrin ($300)! So, it was a [...]

It’s A Wrap!

All the due dligigence and phone calls have been made! Tickets are being mailed. On Saturday or more probably Monday, 90 students will get their tickets to the BIG DANCE (10 tickets for the top ten finalists and 5 tickets for 11-15) December 2nd. Everyone will LEARN, and if you’re not a senior you should [...]

November 17th- 3rd Semi Final

Here is the current order of performance for our 3rd semi-final. 1-Tiffany Hopper a Junior from Banff will sing Someone Else’s Story 2-Caitlin Lashier a Senior at John Cooper will sing On My Own 3-Nathan Spell a senior at Klein will sing Sit Down Your Rockin’ the Boat 4-Rebecca Blankenship a Junio at Klein Oak [...]

Honorable Mention!

For the first time ever, we will be giving out FREE TICKETS to those who placed 11-15 and having you stand to be recognized at the Awards Ceremony, December 2nd.! Unless you are a Senior, here’s an opportunity to SEE up close and personal who the winners were and to VISUALIZE yourself on stage next [...]

Calling Has Begun

We are now doing the “due diligence” and that process will continue until Nov. 16th at which time we will post the TOP TEN in each category. We also now begin the process of deermining our Heart In Art Award candidates as well as teacher and administrator awards. We invite your recommendations for those three [...]

What IF?

What IF there are no violations, no copyright infringements, and no disqualifications at all and the TOP TEN of the judges remains as of November 16th? IF that turns out to be the case, then we already know the following 3 pieces of data- >35 of the top 60 are SENIORS! >Yes, a FRESHMAN can [...]

Probationary Period

The judges have spoken and we know the TOP TEN, but that information will be on hold until after the probationary period and confirmation calls to teachers and parents. After due diligence has been completed we will pull down 11-15 and TEN pieces of art will remain in each category, but no one will know [...]

Teaching Tools

We came back with 58 pieces of unclaimed art. Let us know if someone didn’t pick us as planned. Tomorrow, we post the 15 finalists in each of the six categories. If there are no problems during this probationary period (copyright violations, etc.) we’ll then post the top ten after a 48 hour period. Finally, [...]

It IS Finished!

The fourteen hour Saturday when we took in 1,500 pieces of art was long; however, the fourteen hour Sunday when we judged the pieces and returned some 1,400+ was even more hectice. Did we ever need that extra hour of sleep Sunday am when we moved our clocks back an hour. Monday we take pictures [...]