Art Shows and Competitions
Interested in entering your artwork into a competition or art show?
Check out the websites linked below that contain many competition opportunities available to students. Try your best and more importantly, have fun!
"Competitions can be a goldmine for Art students, offering money, scholarships, product vouchers, overseas trips, promotional opportunities and other prizes. With digital submissions common, those in disadvantaged countries can often compete on an equal footing, winning prizes that convert handsomely to a local currency."- Amiria Gale
50+ Awesome Art Competitions for High School Students - This article contains a comprehensive list of local, national and international high school Art competitions for students aged 13–18 years. It is regularly updated with painting, drawing, design, sculpture, video, architecture and fashion design competitions from around the world and focuses on those that offer significant prizes, fame or glory.
Art Contests for Everyone - Why enter art contests? Recognition, making money off art, and a chance to get a reduction of tuition or a free ticket to college are some incentives.
International Juried Art Shows - Opportunities for Exhibits, Awards, and more!
Each spring, the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic
talent in the nation and in each congressional district. Since the Artistic Discovery competition began in 1982, more than 650,000 high school students have participated.Students submit entries to their representative’s office, and panels of district artists select the winning entries. Winners are recognized both in their district and at an annual awards ceremony in Washington, DC. The winning works are displayed for one year at the U.S. Capitol.
How to Enter the 2018 Art Competition:
1. Contact your representative to confirm your district’s participation and obtain specific guidance.
2. Review the 2018 Rules for Students and Teachers.
3. Complete the 2018 Student Release Form.
4. Submit the Student Release Form and any other required materials to your representative by the deadline specified on their website.
The mission of the TAEA Visual Arts Scholastic Event is to recognize exemplary student achievement in the Visual Arts by providing art students and programs a standard of excellence in which to achieve.
High School V.A.S.E. Director and Event Information (Region 13N):
Event Date: February 5th, 2022 *Must be registered by January 10th*
Event Location: Cedar Ridge High School 2801 Gattis School Rd, Round Rock, TX 78664
V.A.S.E. Regional Director: Zachary Jackson
EMAIL: zachary_jackson@roundrockisd.org
Find out more information in the link above and click on the "About VASE" tab on the TAEA Visual Arts Scholastic Event website. In addition, students might want to explore the Student Gallery to see the level of art at State V.A.S.E. in the "Student Gallery" tab.
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards - We value originality above all else. There is no formula to receiving a Scholastic Award. We want you to surprise us, challenge us, let us into your world. In almost 100 years, there’s only one thing we’ve never seen: You! And this is all we want! How to Enter - Guidelines and Deadlines - A Guide to Copyright and Plagiarism - Online Galleries
The 2021 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards open for submissions on September 13th, 2017 and are due by December 10th, 2021.
Entry fees are $7 per individual entry and $25 per portfolio. If the entry fee is a barrier to your participation in the Awards, they will waive the fee when you submit a Fee Waiver Form.
Questions --> Contact: Elizabeth Zepeda at ScholasticArtTX@gmail.com
Austin Art Boards - If selected, your artwork will be display on billboards around Austin. 2016 Gallery - Entry Form
Submissions will be open Summer of 2020 (exact date to be announced)
The Youth Western Art Show is an exciting competition that enables students to express their creativity in the form of western art, while earning money to put towards their future. Students from Texas grades 9 - 12 enter their western-inspired artwork in the areas of traditional, photography, digital and sculpture/3D. Twenty-three artists will have their work presented for purchase at the Youth Auction in March. No school or organization affiliation is required for entry.
The online entry deadline for the 2022 Youth Art Show will open Friday, October 1st, and close Wednesday, December 15th.
Mail-in artwork deadline is January 15, 2022 and hand delivered artwork should be dropped off between 1:00 – 3:00 p.m., February 11, 2022 at the Palmer Event Center in Austin.
Creative Arts Competition - State Fair of Texas - Enjoy working with your hands? Do you consider yourself a shutterbug? Artists and crafters of all ages are encouraged to participate in the State Fair’s pre-fair competitions. Pre-fair competitions require entrants to register and submit pieces of art, craftsmanship, collections and canned goods before the State Fair begins.
March is National Youth Art Month and the State of Texas has been a leader in Youth Art Month celebrations since it began. TAEA sponsors a flag design contest, an exhibit of 100 pieces of student artwork, an YAM art exhibit at the State Capitol in Austin, followed by a new partnership with the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum where TAEA will host the Awards Ceremony and Reception with an extended exhibition of the Youth Art Month artwork, as well as its participation with TASA / TASB each fall
- YAM Flag Design Form - Due at the beginning of December
- YAM Exhibit and Celebration - Each year, districts across the state may submit artwork made by Pre-Kindergarten through 12th-grade student artists to be selected for exhibition in the YAM State Capital Artwork Exhibit in Austin. The exhibit will begin at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum and later be displayed in the Lower Rotunda of the Texas State Capitol Building.
Rules and Guidelines for State Capital and TASA/TASB Exhibition
Registration for State Capital Exhibition October - December
Registration for TASA/TASB August - September
- Governor's Gallery - Each year, the Office of the First Lady of Texas selects a group of artworks from the YAM State Capital Exhibit to be showcased in the Governor's Business Office for one year. The works are framed by TAEA, and students are invited to a private reception in their honor.
***Ask Ms. Cason about to get entered in the above competitions - teacher needed for submission***
