Local kids invited to submit entries for "Arts for our Park" exhibit
GRAND CANYON, Ariz. - This year marks the 11th year of Arts For Our Park, a local art show that features the work of Grand Canyon/Tusayan and Valle children. Kids from 6 to 18 years old are invited to submit a piece of art for the exhibit.
Organizers schedule the show to coincide with National Youth Art Month. Each year the project organizers establish a theme for the student artists. A panel of professional artists selects the final pieces that will be on exhibit in the Park Headquarters lobby from Feb. 23 to March 15.
The 2014 theme is "Swimming, Flying, Running, Crawling - Taking Off!" which challenges students to submit work that has some sort of movement in it - or expresses movement that is about to happen.
Grand Canyon School (GCS) art teacher Amy McBroom and South Rim National Park Service (NPS) Artist-in-Residence Program Coordinator Rene Westbrook organize the exhibit.
Prizes are available for Best of Show, first, second and third place and honorable mention(s). Each year, Jon Streit, Xanterra's general manager, selects and provides the Best of the Seniors award and the NPS park superintendent chooses the Superintendent's Award.
Red Feather Inn underwrites the Best of Show prize, Best Western Squire Inn underwrites first, second and third place prizes, and Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Dave Uberuaga, Albright Training Center Superintendent Laura Rotegard and GCS Superintendent Nancy Alexander underwrite the entire exhibit.
This year's jurors are South Rim Artists-in-Residence Jay and Kathy Schmidt. The Schmidts are painters and sculptors from Bozeman, Mont.
Last year GCS fourth grader Ceres Tisi won Best of Show for her expressive and beautiful landscape painting entitled "Home." Blythe McBroom-Sweeney won first prize for her manipulated digital photograph entitled "Self."
The submission deadline is Feb. 6 at the end of school day. Artists must bring their work to Amy McBroom's classroom at Grand Canyon School. More information is available from Rene_Westbrook@nps.gov or amcbroom@grandcanyonschool.org.
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