The Arkansas Arts Council has opened nominations to two different programs that might be of interest to local artists. The first, Arts Across Arkansas, is a pilot program intended to encourage, enhance, and expand student’s original thoughts, processes, personal experiences, and artistic abilities. With the Arts Across Arkansas program, teachers can nominate their students to enter a preliminary work for submission. Multiple students from one school may submit for the preliminary round in their selected medium of music composition, dance choreography, literary arts, visual arts, photography, and film. Students can submit to multiple mediums.
There is a comprehensive selection process that includes mentoring and culminates in a state finals event to be held Saturday, March 30, 2024, when a cash prize will be awarded. Nominations for Arts Across Arkansas close Jan. 2, 2024.
The second program is The Arkansas Living Treasure Award which annually recognizes, honors, and celebrates masters of traditional crafts and/or folk arts in Arkansas with the goal of highlighting and preserving Arkansas’s unique heritage, identity, culture, and history. The award recognizes the lifetime achievements and contributions to heritage arts and crafts of Arkansas. The chosen individual is worthy of statewide recognition because of their mastery and dedication to perpetuating their chosen traditional craft or folk art. Nominations for Arkansas Living Treasure close Friday, January 26, 2024.
For details and to nominate your favorite artists, visit AAC Programs/Arts Across Arkansas or AAC Program/Arkansas Living Treasure Award.
