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Merge: Nation's Best Emerging Young Artists with Disabilities

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The VSA Emerging Young Artists Program amplifies the voices of visual artists with disabilities through career development and professional empowerment. The competition seeks excellent work from emerging artists with disabilities, ages 16-25, residing in the United States.
Fifteen winning artists are selected by jury. Grand Prize is $20,000, First Prize is $10,000, Second Prize is $6,000, and the remaining Awards of Excellence are $2,000 each. For winning artists, one of the submitted artworks will be selected for a national exhibition. Artists participate in professional development activities provided by the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Prize summary:
Win up to $20,000
Prizes Details:
Fifteen winning artists are selected by jury. Grand Prize is $20,000, First Prize is $10,000, Second Prize is $6,000, and the remaining Awards of Excellence are $2,000 each. For winning artists, one of the submitted artworks will be selected for a national exhibition. Artists participate in professional development activities provided by the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Deadline:
04/28/2021
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VSA Playwright Discovery Competition

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The 2021 VSA Playwright Discovery Award Program is now accepting 2021 applications. High school students are invited to explore the disability experience through the art of writing for performance. Young writers with disabilities and collaborative groups that include students with disabilities are encouraged to submit short works written to be performed: plays, spoken word poetry (for single performer or a group), or music theater.
Writers must have a disability
U.S. writers must be grades 6-12 (or equivalents)
Non-U.S. writers age 11-18
Scripts may be for theater scripts, musicals, multimedia, video, film, or TV scripts, non-linear scripts or other writing for performance
Entries may be the work of an individual student or a collaboration by a group of up to five students
Writers are encouraged to craft short (10 minute) works from their own experiences/observations
A Jean Kennedy Smith Arts and Disability Program
Deadline:
03/10/2021
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VSA International Young Soloists Competition

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Calling all musicians with disabilities, ages 14-25!
Each year outstanding young musicians with disabilities from around the world receive the VSA International Young Soloists Award, $2,000, and the opportunity to perform and participate in professional development and music coaching activities provided by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
This program is open to soloists and ensembles of any instrument or genre!
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$2000 prizes
Deadline:
03/02/2021
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The 2019 Christenberry Scholarship

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The late William Christenberry was best known for his evocative photographs, collages, assemblages, paintings, drawings, and sculptures of his birthplace, Hale County, Alabama, and for his haunting vision of the American South. As a teacher and mentor to hundreds of students at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC he was a guiding force for aspiring artists.
To honor his legacy, Washington, DC’s Studio Gallery is offering The Christenberry Fellowship. Through it, local emerging artists gain their first entry to a professional gallery, where they can join a broad and diverse artistic community and display and market their work alongside that of established artists.
A grant underwriting this fellowship worth $1,000 annually was made possible by Jeff Mace. It enables the selected fellow to join the artist-run, cooperative for one year (with renewal possibility), without having to pay the normal fellowship member fee and to skip the normal jurying process for Studio Gallery membership.
The goal is to expose new artists to the greater Washington, DC art world and to increase their professional skills by displaying their works within a gallery setting. Local emerging artists learn to: create a cohesive body of work, refine it with a curator, optimize its exhibition design and lighting selections, and maximize its potential for purchase through marketing, promotion, and sales techniques. In addition, by joining an artist-run gallery, they meet and interact with a cross-section of working Washington artists for informal networking and mentoring.
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07/16/2019
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