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YOUNG ARTISTS & AUTHORS SHOWCASE (YAAS) 2023

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Guidelines, Entry Form, and Flyer

 
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Cairns - Scottsdale Art Exchange 2022

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“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

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Kingston Art Exchange 2021

Kingston to Scottsdale Teen Art Exchange 2021

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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.

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YAAS 2020

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"

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