Thursday with LHPAC: the arts gift that keeps on giving
Imagine being a teen with more talent than money for arts education. Now imagine what you'd do with a scholarship that recognized your gifts as well as your parents' thin wallet.
The Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center (LHPAC) provides exactly those kind of opportunities in its summer teen musicals and other youth programs. But even a relatively low program fee can be too much for some families. So the LHPAC is spreading the word about scholarships offered by the Anthony Quinn Foundation.
Created by the late actor and arts education advocate, the foundation's scholarships provide funding for pre-college, after-school and summer programs. Here's a glimpse of what the scholarship did for one of the 2011 winners, Megan Lee.
The competitive application process grants awards between $1000 and $3000. And no -- the money doesn't go to the student, it goes to the arts program to pay the kid's fees. Details:
WHO'S ELIGIBLE: High school students nominated by a teacher, advisor or non-related adult
FOR WHAT: Scholarships to study performing arts, visual arts and design, media arts or literary arts
BY WHEN: Application deadline is midnight on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
MORE INFO: Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarships application form
If you'd like to nominate a student, you and the student have about three and a half weeks to pull the application together and submit it. Who knows? You might keep a kid from having to give up music lessons, like Niela Hampton had to -- twice.
Imagine being a patron of the arts for the holidays. Wouldn't that be an awesome gift for you and your artist?
Thursday with LHPAC: Welcome home
Congratulations -- you made it home for the holidays! Now that you've hugged your favorite relatives (and avoided a few others), who else are you getting in touch with while you're at home?
The woman in the center of this photo is Lauren Dupree, who's currently a cast member of "Dreamgirls" at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA. She's also an alumna of productions at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center. Ten-year-old Lauren was cast in "Grease" and other LHPAC summer musicals. She later attended a performing arts high school, and became a regular cast on the BizKids public television show. Welcome home!
Did you participate in any LHPAC programs? Get back in touch and tell them which ones you were in:
- Comment on the LHPAC Facebook page
- Talk to us on the LHPAC Twitter feed
- Call the LHPAC at 206-684-4758 and talk to Jacob Galfano.
If you're an LHPAC alum, there have probably been a lot of changes since you last entered its doors.
Lauren visited the LHPAC in September 2012, and said, "There's always something going on and something for everyone, whether you like music or dance or spoken-word performances." Go find out for yourself!
EllesSAM: Eye-opening
My first impression of Elles: look how far we've come as artists...
and how much we have to say. I visited the Seattle Art Museum's mega-exhibit of women artists with the perfect companion: Anna Nasset of AOT Gallery in Port Townsend!
Since we came to see art through a feminine lens, I made us some lady goggles to celebrate. Women's art history is sorta [her] thang" from her college days. Speaking of history, here's Adrian Piper's 1988 video installation Cornered, challenging the viewer's assumptions about racial identity.
The edginess of this piece seems dated to me. Yet Jenny Holzer's text pieces from earlier in the 1980s spoke to me more effectively, possibly because viewers can't avoid issues of survival like they can avoid discussing subtle racism.
There are two halves to this exhibit: Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou and Elles: SAM -- Singular Works by Seminal Women Artists. So you'll see work from big names like Georgia O'Keeffe...
... Tamara de Lempicka...
and Frida Kahlo in one show. (The Frida piece was so tiny -- only about 11 inches high!)
When you go, make time to really explore the exhibit if you can. SAM is also featuring women artists at the SAM Gallery, the Seattle Asian Art Museum, and the Olympic Sculpture Park as well. You have one month left to see it, so break out your calendar and make room for some amazing women.
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| Jenny Holzer, from The Survival Series |
When you go, make time to really explore the exhibit if you can. SAM is also featuring women artists at the SAM Gallery, the Seattle Asian Art Museum, and the Olympic Sculpture Park as well. You have one month left to see it, so break out your calendar and make room for some amazing women.