PATRIOTIC ART

Our Goals Are:

To actively encourage 9th-12th grade students to creatively express their patriotism through art.

To seek more participation in the Creative Art  Program by getting them introduced in the schools and to home-schooled students.

To increase contributions to the Young American Creative Patriotic Art Escrow Fund so it can become self-sustaining, thus providing more scholarships.

History:

In 1978 the Young Creative Patriotic Art Program was established to recognize and reward high school  students for expressing their patriotism visually through their art.  At the beginning, a $1,000 first-place and a $500 second-place scholarship were given along with three cash awards from $100-$25.  Today three scholarships are given from $10,000-$2,500.  In 2000, the Patriotic Art Escrow Fund was established with the goal of making this a self-sustaining program.  To date, we have collected over $148,600 towards that goal.