Thea Foundation's annual Fashion Design Scholarship Competition was held on Saturday, March 30. Students from across the state arrived to showcase their designs and discuss their application of this year's theme: "Grandiose and Oversaturated." We're excited to announce this year's winners: 1st Place, $4,000 scholarship Jennifer Mendoza (dress pictured above and below) Hall High School 2nd Place, $3,500 scholarship Allison Stickler Harrisburg High School Congratulations to eve

Five students were awarded scholarships on Saturday, March 23, after three rounds of spoken word for our annual Slam Poetry Scholarship Competition held at Thea’s North Little Rock gallery space. As with every year, we’re inspired by the incredible confidence displayed by each participating student. Congratulations to this year’s winners: 1st Place - $4,000 (pictured above) Jamee McAdoo - Central High School 2nd Place - $3,500 (pictured above) Jasmine Willis - Alma High Schoo

Students from across Arkansas gathered at the UA - Pulaski Tech on Saturday, March 9, to compete in Thea Foundation's annual Performing Arts Scholarship Competition. Over 130 high school and home-schooled Arkansas seniors registered for the competition to perform dance, dramatic works or singing. We are pleased to announce this year’s winners: 1st Place, $4,000 (Pictured above) Karlee Woody - North Little Rock High School - Dance Selection 2nd Place, $3,500 Rudy Fajardo - Par

Earlier this week, we announced the winners of the 2019 visual arts scholarship competition. This year’s theme was “Grandiose and oversaturated.” During the judging process, each student’s interpretation of the theme was heavily considered. As a way to continue to highlight the talent of this year’s winners, we’ve included each of the ten winning pieces with the artist statements paired accordingly below. Providing scholarships to students across the state is an honor for the

More than 200 high school seniors from across the state of Arkansas entered Thea Foundation’s 2019 visual arts scholarship competition. This year’s theme was “Grandiose and oversaturated,” and our judges had a difficult time narrowing down their selections because of all of the strong submissions we received. We are happy to announce this year’s scholarship winners: 1st place $4,000 Esther Crisler Northwest Arkansas Classical Academy (pictured above with her piece titled "Inv

Thea’s annual scholarship competitions are open now to high school and homeschooled seniors across Arkansas, and this school year we’ll be adding six new scholarships, bringing the total number of scholarships to be awarded in 2019 to 36 and $97,500. This is up from 30 scholarships and $79,500 in 2018 and previous years. The new scholarships will be expansions added to our Poetry Slam and Creative Writing scholarship competitions, which have seen increased participation over

Young costume and fashion designers from across Arkansas gathered to compete in Thea Foundation's annual Fashion Design Scholarship Competition Saturday, March 10, showing off creative designs fabricated from 75% recycled materials. We're excited to announce this year's winners. Allen Hillard, a senior at eStem High School, won 1st place and a $4,000 scholarship, and Dominic Rose, of McClellan High School, took 2nd place and a $2,500 scholarship. Congratulations to everyone w