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Beginning January 1, 2019, teachers and students across the country — with help from the audio experts at NPR — will be able to turn their classrooms into production studios, their assignments into scripts, and their ideas into sound. NPR's Education Team is providing training materials and resources — how to use a smartphone to record audio, how to conduct an interview, audio storytelling tips and tricks — for both teachers and students. To help classrooms get started, NPR will also share suggested, but not required prompts, along with a set of criteria that judges will use to pick winning podcasts.

The Call for Artwork for the 2019 NAHS/NJAHS Juried Exhibition is now open! Submission deadline: EXTENDED to December 5, 2018, 11:59pm ET.

The Jeffrey Ahn, Jr. Fellowship is an annual award for young artists to produce extraordinary independent projects. In providing creative capital to young people, the Fellowship seeks to foster a positive educational and creative process that empowers them to be working artists for a summer, and to experience the freedom and the responsibility that such trust entails. The Fellowship is open to applicants up to 21 years of age; the maximum awarded amount in 2019 is $10,000 and may be shared between more than one winner. The deadline for phase one applications is December 15, 2018 at 5 PM ET.

VANS Custom Culture Grants are available to public high schools (including charter schools) serving students in grades 9-12 or community based nonprofit organizations/governmental agencies serving as a fiscal agent for arts programming at a qualifying school. The grants are intended to encourage the inclusion of the arts as an integral component of an excellent education, and to support activities that are consistent with local and national learning standards for arts education. Ten schools across the country will each receive a $2,000 grant to support their work in providing high-quality dance, media arts, music, theatre and/or visual arts instruction for students.

The Youth Art Month Program emphasizes the value of art education for all children, encourages support for quality school art programs, and promotes art material safety.

“Celebrate the West” is a regional art competition that challenges high school students to create works inspired by their state. The 2019 competition deadline is April 28, 2019. Winners will be announced at the WGA Annual Meeting in Vail, Colorado.