NEW FOR 2010  Art Exhibit for Top Fifteen THEA Finishers

The top fifteen Junior and Senior entries will be placed on exhibit in the Judy Kohn Tenenbaum Gallery at the THEA Foundation Center for the Arts from February 3 through March 14.

Registration and Art Submission Deadline

January 20, 2010 Noon

Juniors & Seniors

Who is Eligible

The Thea Leopoulos Visual Arts competition is held once a year for Juniors and Seniors attending Arkansas public and private high schools, home schooled students and GED students planning on attending college fall of 2010.

Awards

THEA awards senior winners one-time scholarships to our top ten winners and certificates to our five honorable mentions.  Junior top ten winners receive $100 cash awards. 

The THEA Awards Ceremony will be held on Sunday February 7, 2010 to honor all visual and performing senior scholarship winners along with the honorable mention winners.  The junior cash prize winners will be honored during this ceremony as well. 

Theme for the 2010 Visual Arts Competition
(Taken from Thea Leopoulos’ journal)

“Personal Strength”

One personal strength that I have is the ability to make friends easily. I love meeting people and getting to know them. I find it fun to learn about people's personalities. Whenever there is a new person at school or perhaps a student who wants to become friends with the people I hang out with, I like to make them feel comfortable. Another strength I have is the ability to be independent. I like to be my own person - making decisions based on what I know is right, dressing the way I like, listening to the kind of music I like, and just doing what I enjoy doing on the weekends. I think it is important to be who you want to be instead of trying to be like everybody else. I don't fall under "peer pressure" very easily. I have a couple of times and realized how terrible it is to not have confidence in myself. Hopefully, a personal strength that I will improve on is work ethic. I need to practice better work ethics in finishing things that I start and not putting projects off for another day.

Thea Kay Leopoulos  2001

Your entry must be based on the theme listed above.  We want your work to represent what the theme means to you.

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REGISTRATION

Step 1:    Register using the on-line application before

                January 20, 2010

Please be sure to spell correctly and capitalize the appropriate words while filling-in the on-line form. 

Registration Form – Bottom of this page

Step 2:    Email a JPG photo of your entry on or before

                January 20, 2010

FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW BEFORE EMAILING YOUR ENTRY!

Specifications of Entries

Two dimensional entries may be in any medium (oil, acrylic, pastel charcoal, photography, Photoshop, mixed medium, etc.).

Size:  Between 11x14 and 18x24 (image size).  Please do not frame your entries.  Works on paper must be mounted and matted.  Canvases should not be framed.

Three dimensional entries may be any medium (clay, wood, bronze, mixed medium, etc.)

The entry may be up to 24” high and 36” wide and weigh up to 75 pounds.  Entries must be delivered and picked up from the THEA Foundation offices by the artist or a parent.

Emailing The Image Of Your Entry

Please follow these instructions for emailing the photo of your entry.

Specs of the digital photo:

A.   Three megapixel (no larger) quality digital picture

B.   Close-up

C.   Good lighting

D.   Focused for clarity

  File Name of the Photo must be the applicant’s last name,
     first initial, and city spelled out.

     Example:

     Bill Smith, a senior who lives in Conway would be:

                                conway.senior.smith.b.jpg

 

  Email Subject Line should read: 

    Visual 2010 - Bill Smith - Conway

  Message Text of your email must include:

     Example:

                     Senior or Junior

                     Applicant:  Bill Smith

                     Applicant Phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx

                     Art Teacher:  Brenda Jones

                     High School:  Your school name here

                     Teacher’s Phone School: xxx-xxx-xxxx

                     Teacher’s Phone Home or Cell: xxx-xxx-xxxx

   Attach the JPG of Your Entey           

   Send the Email with attached Photo of Your Entry to:

                    Seniors:  theasenior2010@gmail.com       

                    Juniors:  theajunior2010@gmail.com

Top Fifteen Finishers

The top fifteen finishers are asked to deliver or ship their entries to the THEA offices in North Little Rock by February 1, 2010 for finals judging.  Please include return postage in the form of stamps with your entry.

Finals Judging Shipping & Delivery Instructions

Canvas Entries - No frames please.

Paper Entries - Please mount and mat your entries, no frames

Identification - Please your name, school, address and phone number on the back of your entry

Ship or Deliver to:

                            THEA FOUNDATION

                            401 Main Street, Suite 100

                             North Little Rock, AR 72114

                             Questions:  501-379-9512

Paul Leopoulos                                                                       

                             paul@theafoundation.org

Sarah Mattingly

sarah@theafoundation.org

THEA Scholarship Winners & Honorable Mention Exhibit

Feb 3 - March 12

The top fifteen Junior and Senior entries will be placed on exhibit in the Judy Kohn Tenenbaum Gallery in the THEA Center for the Arts from February 3 through March 12.  Finalists are responsible for claiming their artwork beginning March 12-19 (weekdays), 2010.  The THEA Foundation assumes no responsibility for the safety of the entry.

The Judging Process

THEA’s judges receive a CD with the jpg entries numbered from 1 to . . .  This “blind judging” process assures the judges will not know the name or hometown of the students they jury into the top fifteen finishers. 

Top ten judging to be held at the THEA Foundation Center for the Arts on February 3, 2010.  The ballots from the judges are compiled by a third party accounting firm in Little Rock and the results are given to THEA's executive director so he can notify the finalists the evening of finals judging.

GOOD Luck Everyone!