Young Artist Showcase 2009

Young Artist Showcase – sponsored by:

Overview

As part of its outreach to the community, the Festival Board initiated a new community arts program in 2006 Festival entitled the Young Artist Showcase. Now has just completed its 4th year, this program provides students from the area's five Art Magnet Public Schools (6-12) the opportunity to display their work during the Festival. The Young Artist Showcase will be a juried exhibition and will provide the award winning students and their teachers either gift certificates to an art supplier or actual art supplies (Awards totaling $1700). We will be presenting 8 awards; 1 - Best of Show, 3 - High School Award of Excellence, 3 - Middle School Award of Excellence & 1 -Award of Excellence in Jewelry. This showcase will also assist in promoting the value and significance of the Hillsborough & Pinellas Counties' Art Magnet School programs. In addition, this is a wonderful opportunity to have these young artists interact with the professional artists exhibiting in the Festival by helping them gain valuable experience that may encourage them to pursue artistic careers. The Young Artist Showcase serves not only as a vehicle for arts education enhancement for students, but also informs broader under-served audiences and the general public of the appreciation of art and its creation.

Elementary School students in the area's four Art Magnet Public Schools will also display work from special projects.

School class project: LIVE at the Festival

Each year the festival showcases a onsite class project from an area Art Magnet School. This year's featured school was Blake High School, teacher Lucy Kirk. Students from Blake and attendees created an 8-foot by 4-foot mural of a coral reef. It is composed of fingerprints.

2008 class project

2009 Participating Art Magnet Schools

Hillsborough County

Howard W. Blake High School
Orange Grove Middle School
Progress Village Middle School
Philip Shore Elementary School
Muller Elementary School
Lockhart Elementary School
Phyllis Alexandroff – Art Supervisor of Middle/Secondary Art & Humanities for Hillsborough County

Pinellas County

Pinellas County Center for the Arts (PCCA) at Gibbs High School
John Hopkins Middle School
Perkins Elementary School
Sue Castleman – Art Supervisor for Pinellas County

Application for Young Artist Showcase

Must be a Middle School or High School student attending a Magnet Arts School in Hillsborough or Pinellas County.

Artists in the Schools

The Friday prior to the festival we will have some of our Festival artists participate in our artist in the schools program. These artists will spend time with students in Hillsborough & Pinellas counties. They will either do an on-site demonstration or a presentation of their work.

Student Volunteer Opportunity

Students will be provided with three opportunities to volunteer at this year’s Festival.

1. Work with Artist Hospitality Committee.
2. Be a student ambassador in the Young Artist Showcase exhibition tent.
3. Assist an individual artist who is exhibiting at the Festival.

Awards for Teachers and Students

Gasparilla Festival of the Arts will award ribbons and gift certificate awards to artists & their teachers.

2009 Winners

2010 Young Artist Showcase
2009 Young Artist Showcase
2008 Young Artist Showcase
2007 Young Artist Showcase

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