Young Artist Showcase

Young Artist Showcase – sponsored by:

Overview

As part of its outreach to the community, the Festival Board initiated a new community arts program in 2006 entitled the Young Artist Showcase. This program provides students from the area’s five Art Magnet Public Schools (grades 6-12) the opportunity to display their work during the Festival. The Young Artist Showcase is a juried exhibition, where seven awards are presented – one Best of Show, three Awards of Excellence High School and three Awards of Excellence Middle School, plus accompanying awards to their teachers. See Awards for Teachers & Students.

The Young Artist Showcase program assists in promoting the value and significance of the Hillsborough & Pinellas Counties’ Art Magnet School programs. In addition, this is a wonderful opportunity to have these young artists interact with the professional artists exhibiting in the Festival by helping them gain valuable experience that may encourage them to pursue artistic careers. The Young Artist Showcase serves not only as a vehicle for arts education enhancement for students, but also informs broader under-served audiences and the general public of the appreciation of art and its creation.

School class project: LIVE at the Festival

The Festival will also showcase class projects from the Elementary Art Magnet School programs. This year’s featured school was Lockhart Elementary, teacher William Tallenti. Children attending the Festival created an 8-foot by 4-foot mural of downtown Tampa. It is composed of nearly 100 individual canvases.

2008 Participating Art Magnet Schools

Hillsborough County

Howard W. Blake High School
Orange Grove Middle School
Progress Village Middle School
Phyllis Alexandroff – Art Supervisor of Middle/Secondary Art & Humanities for Hillsborough County

Pinellas County

Pinellas County Center for the Arts (PCCA) at Gibbs High School
John Hopkins Middle School
Sue Castleman – Art Supervisor for Pinellas County

Application for Young Artist Showcase

Must be a Middle School or High School student attending a Magnet Arts School in Hillsborough or Pinellas County.

Artists in the Schools

The Friday prior to the festival we will have some of our Festival artists participate in our artist in the schools program. These artists will spend time with students in Hillsborough & Pinellas counties. They will either do an on-site demonstration or a presentation of their work.

Student Volunteer Opportunity

Students will be provided with three opportunities to volunteer at this year’s Festival.

1. Work with Artist Hospitality Committee.
2. Be a student ambassador in the Young Artist Showcase exhibition tent.
3. Assist an individual artist who is exhibiting at the Festival.

Awards for Teachers and Students

Gasparilla Festival of the Arts will award ribbons and gift certificate awards to artists & their teachers.

2008 Award Recipients

2007 Young Artist Showcase

Best of Show winner Theresa Painter

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