The Woodlands Arts Council 2024 Student Art Scholarship application opens Dec. 5

THE WOODLANDS, TX – The Woodlands Arts Council invites graduating high school seniors in Montgomery County to submit a portfolio (3 pieces) of visual or literary works of art in the following categories: 2D, 3D, Short Fiction, Short Nonfiction, and Poetry.

Applicants are asked to submit a portfolio of three pieces of their work digitally through the council’s APPLY software between December 5, 2023 and January 23, 2024, and then to attend a short interview about their process on February 10, 2024. Students must be available for the February 10 portfolio interviews.

“Applicants may submit work in both Visual Arts and Literary Arts. We are only taking the first 50 submitted applicants for interviews,” said the council in a statement. “Awarded portfolios / students will be featured in The Woodlands Arts Council Student Arts Scholarship Anthology Volume 2, which will be available for purchase at The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival.”

Submitted pieces must be original and one-of-a-kind visual or literary works of art. Some limits apply.

3-D art includes: Sculpture, Jewelry, Glass, Ceramics, Small Metals, Mixed Media, Fibers, 3-D prints, and Animation, under the genres of Functional and Non-functional (both genres include Realism / Abstract / Conceptual / Comic).

2-D art includes: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Mixed Media, Ink, Photo, and Digital, under the genres of Realism and Abstract (both can include Stylized, and Conceptual) and Graphic (can include Stylized, Design, Comic, and Conceptual).

Literary art includes: Short Fiction, Short Non-Fiction, and Poetry. Submission standards include: all submissions must be 500 words or less; submissions must be uploaded through the APPLY software in Word DOCX, or PDF format in Times New Roman 12-point font; and all work must be the original work of the applicant. Quotations may be used sparingly and must be properly attributed to their source within the text.

Awarded students, parents, and teachers will be invited to celebrate the anthology on April 4, 2024, at the TWAC office.

Learn more at https://www.thewoodlandsartscouncil.org/p/programs/studentartscholarship.