Scholastic Art Awards (San Antonio Regional)

Scholastic Art Awards (San Antonio Regional)

Geographic Scope: Bexar County, Texas (San Antonio region)

Overview: SAY Sí is the Regional Affiliate for the San Antonio Scholastic Art Awards. The organization works with students, teachers, schools, and nonprofit arts organizations in Bexar County to promote, organize, adjudicate, and exhibit the regional Scholastic Art Awards.

Key Features

• Adjudication Process: Blind adjudication process—judging determined on merit basis with only the art object under review; judges have no knowledge of student identity
• Judging Criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision
• Awards: Gold Keys and Silver Keys
• Gold Key Benefits: Automatically entered into national judging in New York City by panels of nationally renowned artists, art professionals, and arts educators. National awards posted to Scholastic accounts and artandwriting.org
• Exhibition: Gold and Silver Key recipients recognized at ceremony and exhibition at SAY Sí
• Participation: Over 1,800-1,900 art submissions annually

Contact Information

• Phone: 210-212-8666
• Email: ashley@saysi.org
• Address: 1310 South Brazos Street, San Antonio, TX 78207

Additional Resources

• Full details about submission requirements and deadlines available at: http://www.artandwriting.org/Affiliate/TX004A