YOUNG ARTISTS & AUTHORS SHOWCASE (YAAS) 2023
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Cairns - Scottsdale Art Exchange 2022
“In and Around Our City” …A Sister Cities Exchange
CAIRNS EXHIBITION: September 14 – October 29, 2022
Opening Festivities Watch Party: September 16, 2022, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Scottsdale Artists' School
Info: szally@scottsdaleartschool.org
Urban Sketchers is a global network working to connect the world, one sketch at a time. Cairns Urban Sketchers is one of 335 chapters in over 360 countries.
This exhibition celebrates the 35th anniversary of our sister cities relationship with Scottsdale, Arizona, and will feature sketches of the two cities and surrounding areas by artists working in the environment. The subject matter and media used is as diverse as are our climates and environments.
The sketchers of the sister cities have never met, but they are linked by their mutual desire to sketch and paint outdoors in all weather and show Cairns, Scottsdale and the world how we interpret the beautiful place where we live!
On closing in Cairns, the exhibition will fly to Scottsdale to be shown at the Scottsdale Artists’ School.
Scottsdale artists may enter by filling out the entry form and dropping off art to Scottsdale Artists' School, 3720 N. Marshall Way, Scottsdale, AZ 85251.
SCOTTSDALE EXHIBITION: January-February, 2023
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YOUNG ARTIST SHOWCASE 2022
featuring the award - winning art
by teen artists from
SCOTTSDALE - MARRAKECH - HAIKOU
Kingston to Scottsdale Teen Art Exchange 2021
This special exhibition featured artwork created by students from our sister city Kingston, Ontario, Canada. In turn, the work of student artists from Scottsdale were placed on display at Kingston’s Tett Centre in August, 2021.
“The works of Art & Design in this exhibit represent the creative energy of the students who were enrolled in the 30th Anniversary of the Creative Arts Focus Program of the Limestone District School Board in Kingston, Ontario. The original works were completed in December 2019 and then reproduced for participation in the July 2020 Scottsdale/Kingston Sister City Youth Arts Exchange. It is with great joy that now in 2021, the students and I can share this beautiful work with our Sister City, Scottsdale, and we look forward with equal joy, to sharing the works of Art and Design from the students of Scottsdale with the Kingston Community, later this summer. With Tremendous Thanks & Best Wishes Always, Karen Peperkorn, Creative Arts Focus Program.”
This exhibition is organized by the Scottsdale Sister Cities Association, Scottsdale Public Library: Mustang Branch and Scottsdale Artists’ School.
Annual Young Artists & Authors Showcase 2020
The Young Artists and Authors Showcase (YAAS) is an annual contest that encourages youth worldwide to express the mission of Sister Cities International through original artwork, literature, and photography. Submissions are centered around an annual theme and judged based on originality, composition, and theme interpretation.
Scottsdale Sister Cities Association Young Artists Showcase 2020
“One World: Out of Many, We Are One”
ArtReach Space Gallery, Scottsdale Center for Performing Arts
1st Place: Eike Mussig Contreras, "We Are One"
2nd Place: Dana Corbo, "Teamwork Set in Stone"
3rd Place: Madeline Lafflam, "Not Everything is Black or White"
