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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 January, 2010

The Most Competitive Yet!

There were 8 of the 12 that were neck-n-neck In fact the judges had a TIE for 1st and 2nd, and they had FIVE people ties for 4th place Third place was Alicia Reece, a senior at Atascocita. She won $200 and gets to come back and compete again in March should she choose. After [...]

4th Semi Final – January 26th

Here is the FINAL ORDER after many changes due to the flu bug and scheduling problems. Bring your friends because it might mean $100 as the audience votes for their favorite in addition to the judges voting.
1-Casey Gilbert- Journey To The Past
2-Chinonso Ahuna- Take A Bow
3-Alicia Reece- I’m Here
4-Nathan Eggen- I’m Not That Smart
5-TeriGina Herrera- [...]

Want To SELL Your Art?

CultureShapers has an Annual Wine Auction that raises funds to give scholarship to the Visual & Performing Art students in the Houston Metro area. Our event this year is February 22. If you would like to display ONE piece for sale, simply email me for a reservation. Last year, one piece sold for $500!

Birdies For Charity Time Again!

1-Guess how many BIRDIES will be shot during the Shell Houston
Open Mar. 29-April 4 (average for last 11 years has been 1,649).
2-Pledge 0.01 per birdie and they shoot 1,600 you donate $16. Thus $0.02
would be $32. A nickel pledge would be $90 – A $1.00 pledge $1,600! [...]

Teacher Forum- January 30th

Elizabeth (Libby) DeLyria will share her immense and valued art skills from 9-12am at the CultureShapers offices, Saturday, January 30th. We currently have 23 teachers reserved. There is no charge but reservations are required.
A few highlights of her career include:
>Chosen for Teacher Institute of Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (June [...]