High school seniors from across the state were asked to submit their work to the 2020 Film Scholarship Competition. Due to the pandemic, Thea Foundation extended the deadline to enter this year's competition. Typically, we award four scholarships in each of the following categories: directing, editing, screenwriting, and cinematography. Since we did not receive any entries in screenwriting this year, our judges from the Arkansas Cinema Society recommended a double award in ci

For Thea’s 2020 Performing Arts Scholarship Competition, we received 140 video submissions from students across the state for consideration. Our competition is usually held in-person one Saturday in March, and we were deeply saddened to not be able to connect with all of the student competitors and their families. Our team is also very grateful to the students who adapted to this year’s competition change to online-only. After careful deliberation by this year’s judges, Thea

Due to a significant interest in submitting art and auditions digitally and Thea Foundation's awareness of the current pandemic, we've opted to take our 2020 Performing Arts and Visual Arts Scholarship Competitions completely online. Please see details below for each competition's new submission process. New Deadlines for Performing Arts & Visual Arts Scholarship Competitions: Extended deadlines to accommodate our talented Arkansas students and the evolving dynamics of the pa

Thea Foundation's annual Fashion Design Scholarship Competition was held on Saturday, March 7. Students from across the state arrived to showcase their designs and discuss their application of this year's theme: brilliant, radiant, overcoming the senses. We're excited to announce this year's winners: 1st Place, $4,000 scholarship Emely Truong (pictured above) Searcy High School Here's a sample of the required drawings Emely brought to discuss her design: 2nd Place, $3,500 sch

Last month, we stopped by Christopher Swaty’s art classroom at Robinson High School in Little Rock. Christopher received his second fully-funded Art Closet project at the very start of the school year—he requested supplies to facilitate teaching different forms of printmaking. Through Thea’s Art Closet, public high school art teachers are able to submit a project request valued at $2,500 or less, and Thea Foundation immediately funds half of the project (up to $1,250) while o

High school seniors from across the state were asked to submit their work to the 2019 Film Scholarship Competition. This year's theme was "Grandiose and Oversaturated," and each artist's interpretation of the theme was carefully considered by our judges from Arkansas Cinema Society. Congratulations to the four students with scholarship-winning films: Dorothy and Walter Morris Foundation Scholarship Andrew Verkler - Screenwriting, $2,500 Greenbrier High School Kye-Yak Interna