Art + Design Special Events
Special Events
Annual College Art Day
High School Art Teachers and students are invited to the annual College Art Day Event. This event is for high school juniors and seniors who are interested in pursuing a college degree in visual art. There are two Art + Design studio sessions during the day. Students are able to participate in hands-on university art studio classes from eight different studio areas offered at Central Washington University.
Learn more about the Department of Art + Design, degree programs, and scholarship opportunities. Enjoy a campus tour. Parents and teachers are welcome!
Annual High School Art Exhibition - Look at Me: Any self-portrait, image, or representation of oneself.
We are encouraging students from all Northwest Regional high schools to submit works about how we represent our identity. For example, some students may want to discuss identity through social, cultural, economic, and gendered perspectives; as each of these elements plays a part in how we identify within constructs of family, community, and greater society.
The aim of this exhibition is to feature the best self-portraits that depict the students’ individual identity, and honest self-reflections are specifically desired.
This exhibit is free to enter and open to juniors and seniors across the Northwest Region. Students are welcome to submit one self-portrait each. These self-portraits must be original, and can be any media.
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