disability
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.
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.
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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
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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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