The Santa Clara County Office of Education announces the 2025 Young Artist Showcase. This showcase is open to public school students, grades Pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, in Santa Clara County. Adjudicators will determine the student artwork to be accepted into the permanent exhibit of student artwork located within the SCCOE campuses and showcased at the
virtual Young Artist Showcase Celebration on May 23, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. All artwork will be submitted digitally.
Please check back later for more information on the 2025 Young Artist Showcase Competition!
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Theme - Arts builds Civic Engagement: Involved in Arts, Involved in Life!
This year's artwork theme is inspired by research highlighted by the National Endowment of the Arts in 2004: Arts as Civic Engagement: Involved in Arts, involved in Life (National Endowment for the Arts, 2004). In 2017, the Invine Foundation funded a study that had similar findings (Rabkin, 2017). There is a consistent correlation between arts participation and civic engagement, and experiences during adolescence are particularly impactful (Rabkin, 2017, p. 5). The arts build connections between people, evoking trust, and are crucial in rebuilding social capital - shared values and resources used towards achieving a common goal or set of goals. Students can speak to their experiences of arts participation and how they have engaged as volunteers in their communities around environmental, socio-economic, and political issues. Because the nature of the arts is a collaborative and expressive one, youth will be able to create expressive pieces about the ways they engage with their respective communities.
Key Dates
2024-25 YOUNG ARTISTS SHOWCASE SELECTION PROCESS:
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November 1, 2024 – April 1, 2025 | Electronic submissions of PK-12th grade student artwork and media
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Week of April 14, 2025 | People's Choice Awards Adjudication
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May 13, 2025 | Online Student Art Gallery at
www.sccoe.org/arts/yas
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May 23, 2025 | Young Artists Virtual Showcase Celebration for all grades: 4:00 p.m.
Young Artist Showcase 2025 guidelines, worksheets, and submission forms can be found here in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese:
www.sccoe.org/arts/yas
Please share this information with teachers, school site administrators, and other interested colleagues. For further details, please contact Sofia Fojas at
artspirationsocialmedia@sccoe.org or visit www.artspiration.sccoe.org.
