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All Kids Can...CREATE! Call for Art
You can create, and creating leads to learning! VSA arts and CVS Caremark All Kids Can invite children and youth to submit artwork showing us your creativity. Explore new activities,
challenge your perceptions, discover your inner artist and submit your work of art today!
VSA arts Playwright Discovery Program
The VSA arts Playwright Discovery Program invites middle and high school students to take a closer look at the world around them, examine how disability affects their lives and the lives of others, and express their views through the art of playwriting...
California Artist David Castro Wins Award of Excellence and $2,000
Washington, August 21, 2007 - VSA arts and Volkswagen of America, Inc., present “Driven,” an art exhibition by 15 emerging artists with disabilities that debuts at the Smithsonian Institution’s S. Dillon Ripley Center from Sept. 15 to Dec. 31. The exhibition illustrates the motivational force behind the artists’ personal visions—what moves them to create...
Renascence/07 Exhibition to Open at the Kennedy Center
June 1-28, 2007 - VSA arts presents an international, juried exhibition of new media by artists with disabilities in the Kennedy Center Terrace Gallery… More…
- California Musician Niv Ashkenazi Wins VSA arts Internat'l Young Soloists Award
- February 16, 2007 - Niv Ashkenazi (Northridge, CA) has been selected as a recipient of the VSA arts International Young Soloists Award… More…
- Californian Deanne Ableser Wins VSA arts Playwright Discovery Teacher Award
- August 3, 2006 - Deanne Ableser (Torrance, CA) has been selected as the recipient of the 2006 VSA arts Playwright Discovery Teacher Award… More…
- California Artists Win "Destination Anywhere" Awards
- August 31, 2006 - VSA arts and Volkswagen of America announced winners of “Destination Anywhere,” a national exhibit for young artists with disabilities. Luis Estrada and Mandi Ziino from California received the Award of Excellence… More…
- May 14, 2006
- Artist-saxophonist Lawrence Gwozdz is bringing chamber recitals to California in November 2006… More…
- March 2, 2006
- VSA arts and MetLife Foundation announced the recipients of the “Arts Connect All” funding program… More…
- California Writers' Work Selected for VSA arts Online Journal "Infinite Difference"
- 2006 - two students from California were selected to be in the National VSA arts online literary journal, Infinite Difference. Read their winning selections by clicking on the following links:
The Things I'm Forced to See Until my mind goes out again…
By Gabby Green-Nickerson By Ji Eun Son
June 2006:
- Very Special Arts California Artshift program participant Brianna Simpson is one of ten winners of National VSA arts contest A View From My Window. In the photo below, Brianna poses with Ted Kennedy in front of her award-winning painting, “Flowers in a Window.”
- January 17, 2006:
- Very Special Arts California was honored to present artist and Artshift program participant Adrian Moreno with a $1,000 scholarship award granted by the Thomas Kinkade Foundation.