Art Competitions
YoungArts 2021
Applications for the 2021 competition will be accepted beginning June 2 through October 16, 2020.
https://www.youngarts.org/
ELIGIBILITY
Be a citizen of the United States or permanent resident/green card recipient (copy of documentation is required in the application)
Be in grades 10–12 or 15–18 years of age on December 1 of the year you are applying
Have not already been named a YoungArts Finalist and previously attended YoungArts Week
HOW TO APPLY
Complete the YoungArts application on Acceptd, including required documentation and audition or portfolio materials, by the deadline. Pay the $35 application fee or get a fee waiver.
CATAGORY
Design Arts accepts portfolios in architecture, interior, product, graphic, and fashion design. Portfolios should demonstrate original thinking, and an ability to effectively materialize ideas, from concept sketches to final design.
Visual Arts includes a broad range of fine art including multi-media and performance art.
Photography portfolios demonstrate a mastery of the ability to take risks, develop an idea through a series of images, showcase a range of experimentation, and clearly articulate visual and conceptual ideas.
Scholastic Art Awards 2021
Registration for the 2021 Awards opened now. You can log into your dashboard or create an account to get started.
How to Enter
https://www.artandwriting.org/what-we-do/the-awards/how-to-enter/
Submission deadlines:
NY: 12/04
NJ: 12/04
MA: 12/11
NH: 12/16
MD: 12/08
HI: 12/15
Create your own and Complete your own submission!
1. After you have created your account, input all your information and upload your work.
* DO NOT FORGET! Input your middle or high school name and Oogie Art
2. Download the submission form.
3. Upload the submission forms onto your basecamp (under Scholastic Art Awards 2021) to have your parent/guardian and your teacher sign it.
4. Upload the signed submission form and pay the submission fee.
5. Then you are DONE!
Eligibility
Public, private, or home-school students in the U.S., Canada, or American schools in the rest of the world enrolled in grades 7–12 (ages 13 and up) are eligible to participate in the Scholastic Awards.
Category Descriptions
For a full list of category descriptions, click HERE.
* Art Portfolio Requirements: Portfolios will include six works rather than eight. For the first time, seniors submitting a portfolio must submit two statements, an Artist Statement and a Personal Statement. Both statements must not exceed 500 words. (see below for statement definitions)
1) The Artist Statement provides insight into the themes or processes used to create the six works in your portfolio. The statement will be viewable by jurors, so do not use self-identifying information.
2) The Personal Statement is a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it. This statement will not be available to view by jurors. It may, however, be viewed by a scholarship committee should your portfolio advance to the national round of judging.
Special Scholarship Awards ($1,000 each)
1) The Civic Expression Award offers to six students whose works explore political or social issues. All students in grades 7-12 (ages 13 and up) are eligible to participate. Visit artandwriting.org/civic-expression for information on how to apply and activities to help you get started on your entry.
2) New York Life Award, for works on grief and loss
3) The Herblock Award for Editorial Cartoon, for visual art addressing current events
Results Calendar
January 28, 2021
Regional Awards posted in your account
March 17, 2021
National Awards are announced
June 9, 2021
National Ceremony
After you won:
A live virtual ceremony will be held on February 5, 2021 at 7:00 pm with a welcome and guest speakers. Links will be shared after the live ceremony to access the pre-recorded awards presentation. The ceremony will be recorded and links will be shared and put on their website for public viewing after the opening ceremony concludes.
Exhibition - We are hoping to still hang the show and open it up for the public to view. A final determination will be made no later than early January on the exhibition.
You can choose Oogie Art name and your teacher’s name on FIND OTHER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM:
The webinar has been recorded for your convenience. You can find the recording online here, and a PDF of the slides here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUYVYgWpZpg&ab_channel=ScholasticGoldKey
Portfolio Awards
The Portfolio Awards, made possible by generous individual donors and other supporters, offer scholarships to 16 Gold Medal Portfolio recipients and 30 Silver Medal with Distinction Portfolio recipients.
To qualify: Seniors submitting a collection of 6 works with accompanying artist and personal statements (500 words or less) are eligible. Below are prompts that may help in crafting your statements:
Artist Statement Prompts: Submit a written statement that provides insight into the creative processes used to render the cohesive collection of works in your portfolio. Your artist statement must not exceed 500 words. The statement will be viewable by jurors. Do not use self-identifying information in the statement.
Potential Considerations
What do you want your audience to understand about your collection of works?
What are the key ideas, issues, struggles, or goals within the portfolio?
Did you make deliberate decisions about materials and processes (for art portfolios) or voice and literary devices (for writing portfolios)?
Personal Statement Prompts: Tell a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it. Your personal statement must not exceed 500 words. The statement will not be available to view by jurors. It may however, be viewed by the scholarship committee should your portfolio advance to the national round of judging.
Potential Considerations
What is a significant challenge, setback, or failure that you experienced? How did you respond to it? How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
Have you ever had a long-cherished or accepted belief challenged? How did you respond? How did the challenge affect your beliefs?
Gold Portfolio: $10,000
Silver Medal with Distinction Portfolio: $1,000
Alliance/ACT-SO Journey Award
The Alliance/ACT-SO Journey Award, in partnership with the NAACP's Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), offers full-tuition scholarships for summer art or writing programs to selected ACT-SO scholars who apply to the Scholastic Awards and receive Gold or Silver Keys. ACT-SO is a yearlong achievement program designed to recruit, stimulate, and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African-American high school students. Interested in joining your naacp.org/act-so.
To qualify: Opt in to the Alliance/ACT-SO Journey Award at the end of your application, and enter the name of your local ACT-SO Chapter. This will select "NAACP ACT-SO" as your "Other Educational Program."
Best-in-Grade Award
The Best-in-Grade Award, sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies, offers scholarships to 24 students (two artists and two writers per grade 7-12).
National Award: $500
Herblock Award for Editorial Cartoon
The Herblock Award for Editorial Cartoon, sponsored by The Herb Block Foundation, offers scholarships to three students whose visual art offers commentary or criticism on current events, social events, or political topics.
To qualify: Select "Editorial Cartoon" as the category of your work in your application.
National Award: $1,000
New York Life Award — Grief and Loss
The National New York Life Award, sponsored by the New York Life Foundation, offers scholarships to six students whose works explore personal grief and loss. State scholarships are available to two students from each of the following states: Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, and New Mexico.
To qualify: Opt in to the New York Life Award at the end of your application, and enter a personal statement (50 words or more) on how your work explores this theme. Below are prompts that may help in crafting your personal statement:
Tell us about the person you lost and how your memories of them inspired you to create this work.
Tell us about the loss you experienced. How did it impact your life and self-identity, and why did you decide to create this work about it?
How does your experience with grief impact your relationship with your community?
What was creating this work like for you emotionally? Did the act of creating the work change how you feel or think about the loss or how you will cope with the loss moving forward?
How have COVID-19 and the resulting social isolation affected your grief?
National Award: $1,000
State Award: $500
One Earth Award — Climate Change
The One Earth Award, sponsored in part by the One Earth Fund and the Salamander Fund of the Triangle Community Foundation, offers four scholarships to students whose creative works address the pressing issue of human-caused climate change.
To qualify: Opt in to the One Earth Award at the end of your application, and enter a personal statement (50 words or more) that answers the following questions:
What specific aspect of climate change does your work address?
What is your personal connection to this aspect of climate change, and why do you think talking about climate change is important?
National Award: $1,000
The Ray Bradbury Award for Science Fiction & Fantasy
The The Ray Bradbury Award for Science Fiction & Fantasy, sponsored in part by the The Ray Bradbury Foundation, offers scholarships for up to six students whose writing uses supernatural, magical, futuristic, scientific, and technological themes as a key element of the narrative.
To qualify: Opt in to the Ray Bradbury Award for Science Fiction & Fantasy at the end of your application, and enter a personal statement (50 words or more) that answers the following questions:
Why do you think your work falls into the category of science fiction, fantasy, or speculative writing?
Why are you specifically interested in using science fiction or fantasy themes, compared to more realistic ones?
National Award: $1,000
Civic Expression Award — Political and Social Issues
The Civic Expression Award, sponsored by the Maurice R. Robinson Fund, offers scholarships to six students whose works explore political or social issues.
To qualify: Opt in to the Civic Expression Award at the end of your application, and enter a personal statement (50 words or more) that answers the following questions:
How does your work highlight a social or political issue or advocate for change?
Why is this issue important to you, and why should it be important to others?
National Award: $1,000
Celebrating Art
How to Enter
https://www.celebratingart.com/
Deadline: December 3rd, 2020
* Select Oogie Art in Manhattan, NY and Lexington, MA on the list of School Name. You can choose either location.
The NextGen Artists Awards
How to Enter
https://thenextgenartists.com/
Deadline: December 15, 2020
Eligibility
Artists between the ages of 6 and 29 from anywhere in the world
Category
Digital Art / Drawing / Painting
Benefits
Cash prize for winners
Opportunity to participate as one for their junior jurors.
Gallery showcasing around the globe