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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.
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 and Crossroads Hospice, in featuring an exhibit, curated by Executive Director Sharon Strubbe, of approximately 70 pieces of Scholastic visual art entries. Crossroads Hospice has generously agreed to sponsor the exhibit, hanging it at their administrative offices in Blue Ash, and hosting the opening night event on Friday, March 14 from 5pm – 7pm!
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 will be awarded at the opening reception.
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 will be judging their selections from that exhibit the evening of Wednesday, April 23 and the reception will be held Thursday, April 24th at the Pendleton Art Center in OTR, with the awards ceremony starting at 6:15pm.
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