Scholastic Art Awards
The Regional Scholastic Art Awards ceremony is held each February. Each year, five “Best of Show” as well as 75 individual category pieces and 36 portfolios are selected from thousands of regional entries to be sent to New York for the national competition. Of the 36 portfolios sent to New York in 2005, 15 students received over $540,000 in scholarships to study art in college. Summerfair provides major funding for the competition in this region.

Summerfair Cincinnati will host an Opening Reception on Saturday, March 21, 2009, 5:00 - 7:00 PM, at the Anderson Center, Lower Level Atrium. The exhibit will run from Saturday, March 14th through the end of the month. Exhibit hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Weekend hours vary.


Taft Museum ARC
Summerfair also supports the Taft Museum Artists Reaching Classrooms (ARC). This program includes: Student tours of Taft museum emphasizing lessons from art of the past for art of the present, School visits by 3 different artists to discuss artists’ work, the life of artists, and the creative process, Student visits to an artist’s studio/office to experience how an artist works in a real-life setting, and a Student Art Exhibition. For more information visit www.taftmuseum.org/arc.htm

Summerfair Cincinnati's High School Scholarships initiative brings Scholastic visual art entries to new exhibit.

In an effort to increase visibility and public awareness of Summerfair Cincinnati’s High School Scholarship initiative, in 2008, Summerfair Cincinnati is partnering with Art Machine / Scholastics in featuring two exhibits, curated by Executive Director Sharon Strubbe, of approximately 70 pieces each, of  Scholastic visual art entries.  Crossroads Hospice generously agreed to sponsor the first exhibit, which hung in their administrative offices in Blue Ash and ran from Friday, March 14 – Friday, April 25.

The second exhibit was installed for the 2008 Summerfair and hung in Moonlight Gardens the three days of the 2008 Fair.  The exhibit was juried and awards were announced on Saturday, May 31 by the “Mayor of Summerfair”, Jim Scott of 700WLW.   This exhibit is generously sponsored by GBBN.

First, second and third place scholarships, which can be used to purchase books and art supplies and/or for an approved art class for the winners to continue their art studies was awarded at the opening reception.

Jim Scott and the 2008 High School Scholarship Winners

In addition, scholarships will be awarded to two deserving art students exhibiting in the Taft/ARC program. 2008 will be the third year of Summerfair’s participation with the Taft/ARC high school program. The Summerfair VP Grants and her committee judged their selections from that exhibit the evening of Wednesday, April 23 and the reception was held Thursday, April 24th at the Pendleton Art Center in OTR, with the awards ceremony starting at 6:15pm.