Eligibility: Texas 8th to 12th grade students (or homeschooled students who have achieved a comparable status towards high school graduation) who are legal US and Texas residents.
Intent: To advance the creative economy of Texas by investing in the future of the arts.
This program awards grants to talented young artists to further their studies in their chosen field. This grant is not a college scholarship.
The most talented young artists will receive the title of Young Master and will be awarded grants of up to $2,500 per year to further their studies in their chosen arts disciplines. Students are eligible to receive the grant for up to three years, but not beyond their senior year, and they must reapply annually. Students must be participating ina school-based arts program, summer institute, a specialized course of study, or receiving private lessons from a qualified instructor.
Students must maintain passing grades in all academic areas.
Applications will be from the student, his or her parent/guardian, and his or her arts instructor. This program is available every other year.
Deadline: November 15, 2009 postmark deadline
Application and Instructions: www.arts.state.tx.us/ym
If you would like additional information or have questions, please contact:
(email preferred)
Brenda Tharp
brenda.tharp@arts.state.tx.us
512/936-6564
Cassandra Scholte Jensen
cassandra.scholte@arts.state.tx.us
512/936-6563
Kelsey McKinney, VA Sr, is a student voices contributor for the Dallas Morning News. Here is her recent entry on the News Education Blog:
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Rachel Suggs received first place with her entry, “Under the Table.” Macey Loureior (“Light”) and Angelica Valdez (“If The Shoe Fits, Put It On”) received second and third place, respectively.
“I congratulate Ms. Suggs, Ms. Loureior and Ms. Valdez for their winning entries, and I thank everyone who participated in this year’s competition,” Congresswoman Johnson said. “I am proud to represent a District with so many talented and engaged young artists.”
Congresswoman Johnson announced the awards at a reception at the South Dallas Cultural Center . Each winner received a savings bond from American National Bank of Dallas , and Suggs also received three round-trip tickets to Washington , DC , from Southwest Airlines. Suggs will participate in the Annual National Art Reception on June 24.
Judges for the contest were Vicki Meek, Managing Director, South Dallas Cultural Center ; Emily Cheek, McKinney Avenue Contemporary Gallery; local artist Admiral James Ellison; and Deborah Bigbie of Bigbie Designs.
VASE (Visual Arts Scholastic Event): of the 127 artworks entered into the Regional VASE competition, 24 pieces were selected for State honors. 22 pieces received the highest score and 3 received Gold Seal. Gold Seal artworks will be on exhibit at the Texas Art Education Association conference to be held in Dallas November 2009.
Young Artists program at the DMA in conjunction with the Art Ball: 20 photography students participated in the Young Artists program at the DMA for the Art Ball, almost every student currently in printmaking was represented in the exhibit.
Libby Riggs was accepted to Marie Walsh Sharpe summer program. This national competition provides students with a free summer course on the campus of Colorado College. Erlson Neba and Libby Riggs were accepted to UTA's SEED summer painting program. The University of Texas Arlington continues this program for students interested in architecture. Katy Wood was accepted to Maryland Institute College of Art’s pre-college summer program; Evan Beck has been accepted to Skidmore’s Summer AP intensive through the generosity of Advisory Board member John Dayton ; Miranda Davolt has been accepted on scholarship to the Columbus college of Art and Design summer program.Gustavo Galvan has received an internship with one of the world’s largest advertising agencies BBDO in New York. It is a six week internship. He is looking for an apartment as we speak. His comment “It’s expensive, but it’s ok as long as it involves my growth in art.”
The Claremont Museum of Art will receive an $80,000 grant from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, with direct funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to travel its 2008 exhibition "Vexing: Female Voices from East L.A. Punk" to Guadalajara, Mexico for the city's international book festival. The exhibition was curated by 1992 BTWHSPVA graduate and salutatorian Pilar Tompkins. The exhibition catalog for the show is being expanded and reprinted by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center as a 100 page paperback book that will be available for educational use and research nationwide by the end of this year. Additionally, Tompkins' essay for the book will be included in the international arts journal, Review published by the Americas Society in New York. The edition will discuss the state of Latino arts in the nation today.
Jenny Murphy, 2004 BTWHSPVA graduate, is graduating from Washington University in ST. Louis. She sent Ms. Charlotte Chambliss an invitation to her BFA thesis exhibition with a note that she plans to teach elementary art.
The South Dallas Cultural Center is featuring the art of Jamaal Stafford, 1992 graduate, from April 11 to May 30, 2009. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Friday 12:30 – 7:00 pm Saturday 10:30 – 5:00 pm. Jamaal is an accomplished painter, illustrator and printmaker.
Nash Flores sent word to our faculty that Kayla Escobedo is taking advantage of all that Harvard has to offer. While at Harvard, Nash attended a reception in President Drew Faust's office in historic Massachusetts Hall. The reception honored a handful of students selected university-wide to hang their art in the President's office and to his surprise and delight, one of those students is our own Kayla Escobedo (BTW '08).
Congratulations to Alice Armstrong for receiving the $20,000 Excellence in Art Scholarship for her achievements in AP Art History from the Communities Foundation. Alice is also a National Merit Scholar receiving $2,500. She plans to attend UT Austin, receiving $4,000 for her first year and $3, 000 for each year after from UT. She will matriculate in the Plan II Honors program. Alice was also a DADA scholarship finalist.
Dallas Chapter NAACP 2009 Act-So Gold winner in drawing is Erlson Neba. Gold medal winners on the local level qualify for an all expense paid trip to compete at the National Act-So Competition. The competition activities correspond to the national convention of the NAACP in July. M
aryland institute College of Art (MICA) certainly loves our students. They have offered Gilbert Oranday $64,000.00 and Beka Otis $70,000 scholarships beginning in the fall of 2009. Congratulations to two very deserving students!
The Edith Baker DADA Scholarship awardee this year is Maria Cortes. Her strong subject matter and bold painting strokes propelled her through the competitive review. Maria was also selected to be the only high school student for Live Draw!
Scrap Can Be Beautiful student entries gained over $2,000 in prizes from long time sponsor Commercial Metals, Inc. Sculpture students continued to receive accolades with an exhibit and reception in the lobby of Bryan Tower.
Spire Realty Group president Caleb Smith then presented the sculpture lab with a cold cut saw and a monetary donation to each of the clusters represented at the reception.
Norwood Flynn Gallery hosted a senior exhibit during the Gallery Walk. Norwood Flynn Gallery is a member of the Dallas Art Dealers Association (DADA). Proceeds from the sale of student work benefitted the Edith Baker Dada Scholarship.
Printmaking students continue their interactive exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art Materials and Meanings. The exhibit which was displayed in three segments is now on the last group of prints.
NCECA Conference (National Council on the Education of Ceramic Arts) K-12 National Exhibit: Paige Furr attended the conference where here students received the honor of being included in the exhibit. Students exhibiting were: Andrea Forte, Aline Trejo, and Olivia Rodriguez. Olivia received a 500$ Scholarship and Andrea won an artistic merit award.
Gabriella Viegas won the Frst Place design competition for Savor Dallas. She will appear on Good Morning Texas on Wed, Mar 4. Her design can be seen in the Dallas Morning News, on area DART buses and at 10 DART stations. Sarah Wright won Second Place and Erison Neba won Third Place. Savor Dallas is a citywide festival for the wine industry.
The Goss-Michael Foundations announces willner of the third annual student art contest titled: Focus on Identity. There were 134 local entries with First, Second, and Third prizes. Five Honorable Mentions were also named and we celebrate Rachel Davis of the BTW Visual Arts Cluster as one of the Honorable Mention recipients.
BTW Visual Arts students won 97 Superior Ratings in the Texas Art Education Association's Visual Art Scholastic Event. Twenty-seven of those students will be going to state:
Alice Armstrong, Kevin Houlahan, Ana Laura Juarez, Cadence Sisco, Naomi Bowen, Max Brito, Codi Fant, Genna Ford, Zeke Raney, Rachel Suggs, Megan Wainwright, Katy Wood, Melissa Archer, Evan Beck, Leigh Garcia, Felicia Jordan, Kelsey McKinney, Taylani Royston (2 entries), Aidan Tart, Seth Camp, Sean Morgan, Erlson Neba (2 entries), Gilbert Oranday, Cristopher Brown, Jaquey Rodriguez.
Congratulations!! On behalf of the GRAMMY Foundation, we are pleased to inform you that your artwork has been chosen to be featured in the 11th Annual Music Preservation Event – “Music in Focus!” We deeply appreciate your contribution and are thrilled to include your spectacular work in our program! It cannot be stated enough that you are a truly talented group of individuals and we are honored to provide a platform to showcase your images! Please keep in mind you will be in good company. Scheduled to appear that evening are world famous photographers, Danny Clinch, Herman Leonard and Robert Knight all of which will be showing and discussing their photographs. The event is being hosted by MTV News anchor Kurt Loder and will feature performances by GRAMMY winner Lucinda Williams, GRAMMY Nominee Sara Barielles, Guitarist virtuoso Tyler Bryant, and many more. More information can be found on the "Music Focus" Grammy website.
Work from the following students was projected during the event:
Samuel Jolley
Katie Burks
Genna Ford
Steven Gonzalez
Naomi Bowen
Molly Wolchansky
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Rudy, Visual Arts senior accepted to College for Creative Studies, Detroit; Earl Lucas, Ford car designer; Nancy Hairston, CEO, VanDuzen 3-d manufacturing and BTW business partner; and, Dr. Nancy Mack, Chair, Technology Education. |
Earl Lucas was a 1988 graduate in the Visual Arts cluster,
with an emphasis in jewelry design. Under the supervision of then-jewelry
instructor, Elizabeth Knodle, he won many awards as well as a scholarship
to the College
for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI.
While a student at CCS, he discovered that the Center offered a degree in Transportation Design and the rest is history! Earl Lucas will be in town for the Dallas Auto Show and the unveliing of the 2010 Ford Taurus: the exterior is his design! Earl is one of only twenty-five - thirty African American car designers in the world and is highly regarded by a number of companies involved with transportation design. He has designed interiors for private jets as well as collaborating on a number of car designs for Ford.
Earl Lucas has visited BTW many times in the past. In particular, he spent time with students in Dr. Nancy Mack's animation classes where they used the product MAYA from Alias|Wavefront to create 3- product design and animation.
:ast week he was featured on Channel 4 News, KRLD and the front page of the Feb 19 Business Section, Dallas Morning News.
Charlotte Chambliss is a College Board Consultant for AP Studio Art and AP Art History. She presented a one day and a week-Long Summer Institute to teachers on related topics. As always she highlighted the work of Booker T. Washington AP Studio Art students.
She also was a College Board Mentor to two other Studio Art Consultants during the school year. Activities involved extensive Mentor and Coaching Training and observing two Mentees as they presented at One Day Workshops, ongoing dialogues with Mentees improved the quality of College Board presentations.
Charlotte will be presenting a two day workshop for the Anchorage (Alaska) School District in September for the middle school to high school Art teachers on Vertical Teams, AP Studio Art and Art History. S
he also recently presented at the National Convention in Minneapolis. She has been an AP Studio Art Grader for 9 years. Her current position at the reading is as Question Leader. In this capacity she organized and oversaw readers in the process of selecting images for the AP Central website, the AP Studio Art Poster and the AP Studio Art National Exhibition. This exhibition came to Booker T. Washington in January and will again come to Booker T. next year. C
harlotte is also frequently asked to write art related questions for Professional Exams on behalf of Educational Testing Company.
Charlotte Chambliss was invited by the College Board to give a presentation at the Inernational School in Krakow, Poland. She presented material on AP Art History and AP Studio to International School teachers from throughout Eastern Europe. While in Krakow she was able to tour the city extensively - beautiful Romanesque and Gothic churches as well as the oldest Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of the city. She took an all day tour of Auschwitz and Birkenau on what happened to be the 70h anniversary of the "Crystal Night" - the event preceding the invasion of Poland and began the persecution of the Jews.
Visual Arts Faculty exhibit on the Mezzanine level of the Trammel Crow building will extend through June. We invite you to stroll through the space to see how faculty members create their own work.
Printmaking teacher Eva Kutscheid was filmed by videographer Scott Hello in Nov. She will be included in a short video featuring her students connections with the Margaret and Trammel Crow Collection of Asian Art. This spring, printmaking students will present a new version of their exhibit Message in a Bottle at the Crow Museum.
During November and early December, Kyle Richards (Dance instructor), Linda James (Dance instructor), and Charlotte Chambliss (AP Visual Arts instructor) collaborated with Nicole Stutzman and Jenny Marvel of the DMA (with 4 other area teachers all different disciplines academic and artistic) on creating either lessons or preparatory activities for students and teachers for the Olafur Eliasson Exhibition.
It was a great opportunity and unique in format. They had an initial meeting where they were introduced to the artist and his work and assigned pieces. They were then asked to script initial responses to the specific pieces, prior to actually seeing the work other than in reproduction or on internet video. They were then to view the exhibition and either prepare lessons or create activities to prepare and guide the students through the exhibition. They were then asked to come in and have their personal responses and thoughts to the exhibition taped. All of this was put together via the Pachyderm web format and loaded on the DMA website.
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