Scholarships, Art Shows and Ceremics, Oh My!

SCHOLARSHIP:

Name: Midwest Art Scholarship Competition
Due: Postmark by November 20th, 2009
About: Look below for details

ART SHOW:

Name: Safe Haven Community Art Show ( December 4th, 2009 6-9 pm)
Submissions Due: Noon, November 20th, 2009
About: Look below for details

CERAMICS:

The Link Gallery at the Art and Design building at The University of Illinois will be displaying
works from ceramic students from November 9- November 27, 2009. Check it out!




MIDWEST Art Scholarship Competition:

Attention all Associate, Bachelor, and Masters Degree candidates with an interest in the visual arts, currently enrolled at a Midwest Regional public or private college or university. No matter what major, if you paint, illustrate, sculpt, design, draw, photograph, or just create art, you are eligible to enter the 3rd Annual Fine Art Finals Midwest Regional Scholarship Competition.


Media accepted include:

* Drawing - graphite, colored pencil, pen and ink, marker, pastel, charcoal, etc.
* Painting - oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, etc.
* Printmaking - etching, lithography, screen-printing, etc.
* Sculpture - clay, ceramic, plaster, marble, glass, wood, resin, porcelain, metal, etc.
* Jewelry - gemstones, precious metals or other materials, etc.
* Fibers - textiles, fabrics, yarn, natural & synthetic fibers, etc.
* Photography - traditional & digital.
* Digital Art - see www.fineARTfinals.com for details.
* Graphic Design - traditional & digital, see www.fineARTfinals.com for details.


This scholarship competition is dedicated to the promotion of talented and gifted emerging artists at the collegiate level and awards their mastery of technique and excellence of artistic achievement. Finalists and Winners will be selected based on quality, originality, and the creativity of their work.


First Place: $1200
Second Place: $600
Third Place: $300

Two Honorable Mentions:
$50 each

For Entry Forms and Entry Rules,
and other information, please visit our website at:
www.fineARTfinals.com

For Competition "Call for Entries" 11x17 (Tabloid Size) Posters
to display in your school, please download and print from website: www.fineARTfinals.com

To see the results from our previous competitions, including
the 2nd Annual Fine Art Finals Midwest Scholarship Competition of 2008,
please see our website: www.fineARTfinals.com

Midwest Region includes the following States:
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

SAFE HAVEN COMMUNITY ART SHOW:

A Call For Art! “Open your mind, expand your world.”

A community art show sponsored by Safe Haven residents with assistance by students in FAA 391 and U & I Collab.

In an effort to make homeless issues visible in Champaign County students from the University of Illinois are assisting Safe Haven residents to sponsor an art show at the Independent Media Center on December 4^th from 6-9 pm.

Art is being sought to display. Review of submitted art will be handled by Safe Haven residents. Those following the art theme or using their activists using art as a message will be strongly considered. All medias accepted: music, performance, new media, traditional media, etc.

Submissions must be made by November 20^th at Noon.

For questions or to submit a 2D image and explanation email edenis2@illinois.edu or call 618.527.6514. In-person submissions can be made at the East St. Louis Action Research Project office: 326 Noble Hall, MC-549, 1209 South Fourth Street; Champaign, IL 61820.