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 DATES & TIMES!

Nov 1: Entry Period (8a - 6p)
Nov 2: Judging Day (8a - 3p)
Nov 2: Entry Pickup! (3p - 7p)
Nov 3: Top Fifteen Announced - 48 Hour Probationary Period
Nov 5-10: Due Diligence Phone Verification
Nov 10: Top Ten Announced
Nov 20: Awards Ceremony!

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2008 ENTRY FORM

The entry form will be posted right here when it is ready. We are working to accept online entries this year.

The Prizes!

Grand Prize: $5,000
Second Place: $2,500
Third Place: $1,500
Fourth Place: $1,000
Fifth Place: $500
6th thru 10th: $250

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 may be downloaded from the website and parents, students or teachers deliver and pickup the entries at 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 will be personally invited to the exclusive Awards Night, where the winners will be 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.

2007 Entries: 1,377

Drawing: 351
Electronic Media: 163
Film: 55
Mixed Media: 259
Painting: 161
Photography: 276
Sculpture: 112

2006 Photography Winners

Color or black and white photographs, using traditional OR digital cameras.

Click here to review the rules for this year.
$5,000
Grand Prize


Constructed Image #11
Brendan Moody
SR: Cy-Fair HS
Cy-Fair ISD
Teacher: Laurie Emery
$2,500
2nd Place


Just Between Us
Kayla Stokes
SR: Cy-Fair HS
Cy-Fair ISD
Teacher: Laurie Emery
$1,500
3rd Place


Russian Ba
Patrick Burnham
SR: Cy-Fair HS
Cy-Fair ISD
Teacher: Laurie Emery
$1,000
4th Place


Watching As You Leaf
Marc Drumwright
JR: Cy-Fair HS
Cy-Fair ISD
Teacher: Laurie Emery
$500
5th Place


Unsure Pianist
Bonnie Olson
SR: Cy-Fair HS
Cy-Fair ISD
Teacher: Earl Emery
$250
6th Place


Clarity
Patricia Hollis Wood
SR: Memorial HS
Spring Branch ISD
Teacher: Cathy Bottoms
$250
7th Place


Warehouse Reflection
Robert Ruiz Jr
SR: Jersey Village HS
Cy-Fair ISD
Teacher: Jason Neumann
$250
8th Place


Standing Out In a Crowd
Margo Sivin
JR: Cy-Fair HS
Cy-Fair ISD
Teacher: Earl Emery
$250
9th Place


Houston Street
Sarah Pelton
JR: Klein HS
Klein ISD
Teacher: Anne Green
$250
10th Place


Rag and Flower
Tianxu Guo
JR: Clements HS
Fort Bend ISD
Teacher: Donna Reedy

Honorable Mention...


Infatuation
Kristin LaFrate
SR: Cy-Fair HS
Cy-Fair ISD
Teacher: Earl Emery

Another Sunday Afternoon
Chelsea Lashier
JR: The John Cooper School
Teacher: Karen Fearon

Metal Branches
Emily Lopez
JR: Cy-Fair HS
Cy-Fair ISD
Teacher: Earl Emery

Never Stop Just Spin
Ally Parks
JR: Cy-Creek HS
Cy-Fair ISD
Teacher: Lynda Crocker

8:40
Gillian Tracey
JR: Klein Oak HS
Klein ISD
Teacher: Amy Dietrich


About the Jurors...

Lynn Baldwin began his photographic career as a photographer in the U. S. Navy and continued his career in commercial, medical and editorial photography. He headed the Department of Biomedical Communication at the University Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas and retired from there in 1993. His scientific and medical photography has been exhibited in the United States and Canada. Baldwin had continued his career by pursuing projects in the photographic arts. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States.

Stuart Larson is a Photographic Artist living in Houston. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions though-out the entire United States. In Houston he is represented by Bering & James, a gallery located in the Rice Village. He currently is the head of Graphic Design at the University of Houston-Clear Lake where he has worked to bring the curriculum fully into the digital age. His courses are focused on the fundamentals of art and design. He teaches courses in Digital Collage Manipulation, Digital Drawing, Typography, Advertising Design, and Web Design and Animation.

Matthew Linton is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Houston, Clear Lake. He holds his BFA in Photography from Arizona State University and his MFA in Critical and Visual Studies from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.


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