COMPETITIONS/ SCHOLARSHIPS

YOUNG ARTS (Deadline April 30) – Young Arts Competition and Scholarships/ Deadline October 16.  Young Arts gives millions of dollars in art scholarships each year. It’s open to all students at our school grades 9-12. To enter, you must make an online account and upload your images. Scholarships = Free Money. These are the biggest art scholarships available. Students may apply for a fee waiver to enter for free if they have filled out a lunch application as part of a Title 1 school. Get your lunch application in, even if you don’t want lunch, there are other benefits for the school such as fee waivers. More info at youngarts.org

FREE ART PROGRAMS

VISUAL & PERFOMING ARTS COLLEGE FAIR– (OCT 24 at UCLA) The event is free. There are metered parking lots with hourly rates, or all day passes for parking. This is a great event to find both art schools and universities with strong art departments and the booths distribute application and scholarship information. It is not a portfolio review event. Saturday, October 24, 2015 1:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. More info at http://www.nacacnet.org/

EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS

EASTSIDE PUNK – Photo Exhibit at Espacio 1839 in Boyle Heights (1839 E First St, Los Angeles, California 90033). The bulk of the photos presented in this exhibition, taken at various Eastside locations during 1988-91, have never been publicly exhibited or published. More into here

ROCK PHOTOG NORMAN SEEFF – An exhibition celebrating legendary Rock photographer Norman Seeff – Photographs of Mapplethorpe, Warhol, Jagger & Others | On View at RON ROBINSON Santa Monica through August 30 (1327 Fifth Street Santa Monica, CA 90401)