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For the 11th consecutive year, Stellantis is empowering students to envision the automotive future with its “Drive for Design” contest.

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Do your students have something to say about democracy in their communities today? In partnership with the U.S. State Department’s Arts in Embassies office, NAEA is pleased to announce the Democracy Collection Student Art Competition. Submit your student’s artwork by May 1.

Do your students have something to say about democracy in their communities today? In partnership with the U.S. State Department’s Arts in Embassies office, NAEA is pleased to announce the Democracy Collection Student Art Competition. Submit your student’s artwork by May 1.

Stick with Art! invites Title 1 art teachers to share their students' creative, colorful, and imaginative craft stick creations on social media for a chance to win $1,000 to help support the cost of art supplies for their students.

Students, parents, and teachers are invited to nominate a teacher at their school to receive one of ten $4,000 awards, which will be distributed to public school educators across the United States in great need of support in teaching art, music, dance, theater, and creative writing and other artistic disciplines.

Submissions are open for the Fresh Films Video Challenges, created to allow educators to meet students where they want to be: on the screen. Every 2 weeks, middle and high school students respond to a challenge topic with a 2-minute video. With step-by-step project guides and video lessons as well as self-reflective and social justice themes, teachers can use challenges as assignments in their digital classrooms, or students can complete for fun. Winning projects receive $100 and can nominate a teacher to win $100 as well! No previous filmmaking experience or fancy equipment required—just a willingness to get creative!

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.

Vans, the original action sports brand and icon of creative expression, named Hixson High School from Hixson, Tennessee as the grand prize winner of the ninth annual Vans Custom Culture art competition. Vans and its program partners, including Journeys, Yoobi, Laguna College of Art + Design (LCAD) and Americans for the Arts, awarded $75,000 towards the school’s arts education program. The remaining finalists – Fontainebleau High School, Larned High School, Middle Township High School, and Moanalua High School – will each receive $10,000 toward their arts program and a limited-edition Vans gift. 

NAEA is pleased to share information about the 2018 Sneakerhead of State Competition with you! This unique art and design opportunity is open to high school students. Scholarships and cash prizes will be awarded. The submission deadline is June 2, 2018. PENSOLE Footwear Design Academy is searching for the next great designer! Give your students the opportunity to test their skills against the best young minds in the country and train for a successful career in the creative industries. Check out complete details online.