Art Institute offers competitions for high school students

Poster design

High school seniors with an interest in turning their love of art into a career can enter the Art Institute’s “Life is Better with Art in It” Poster Design Competition. This competition results in tuition scholarships of up to $25,000 to study graphic design at a participating Art Institute location, including San Diego.

In partnership with the not-for-profit organization Americans for the Arts, the Art Institute’s Poster Design Competition is an opportunity for talented young artists at the high school level to study graphic design, earn a degree and launch a professional career in the graphic design field.

Deadline for entries is February 8, 2008. For information, call Nicole Dominguez at (858) 598-1216.

Fashion design

The “Passion for Fashion” competition encourages and rewards young fashion design and fashion marketing, merchandising and retail management talent at the high school level. Awards made to winners can include scholarships to study fashion design or fashion marketing, merchandising or retail management at an Art Institute location.

The deadline for entries into the competition is November 19.

To be eligible, students must complete an entry and release form, have a minimum GPA of 2.0, write a short essay describing their interest in fashion and submit a finished, original eveningwear garment or fashion marketing, merchandising or retail management product or plan.

For more details, go to http://www.artinstitutes.edu/passionforfashion.