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2012 Creative Writing Winners

Elaine Akin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:03:58 +0000

The Thea Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of its second annual Creative Writing Scholarship Competition for high school seniors, which were finalized by a panel of qualified judges at the Thea Center on Wednesday, February 15, 2012. Participants from all over the state submitted short stories with a maximum of one-thousand words based on Thea Kay Leopoulos’s acrylic finger painting titled Milosevic (2001).

To view the winners, click here.

Proceeds from Prints Sold to Benefit Foundation and Humane Society of Pulaski County

nick — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:42:26 +0000

Today’s THV has teamed up with artist R.F. (Rob) Walker to bring Joey the Garden Cat into the art world. A portion of the proceeds from prints sold will go towards the Foundation’s Art Closet program and the Humane Society of Pulaski County. To read Joey’s story and how to order prints, visit https://www.nationsprint.com/clients/joey/ .

2012 Visual Arts Winners

Elaine Akin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:35:18 +0000

The Thea Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of its 2012 Visual Arts Scholarship Competition for high school seniors, and its Visual Arts Competition for high school juniors, which were both finalized by a panel of qualified judges at the Thea Center on Wednesday, February 1, 2012. 160 seniors and 64 juniors representing over fifty Arkansas cities submitted artworks of any medium based on the theme, “Happy Remembrances of the Holiday Season,” taken from Thea Kay Leopoulos’s journal entry titled, “Christmas.” Participants competed for a combined total of $25,000 in scholarships for seniors and $1,000 in cash prizes for juniors Thea awards annually in the visual arts category.

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2012 Performing Winners

Paul — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:52:18 +0000

The Thea Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of its 2012 Performing Arts Scholarship Competition, which took place on Saturday, January 7, 2012. Seventy-seven high school seniors representing thirty-three cities from all corners of the state of Arkansas sang, acted, and danced their way across the stage of the Argenta Community Theater in hopes of receiving one of the ten scholarships, a combined total of $25,000, Thea awards annually in the performing arts category.

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A Rain Falling Star

Paul — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:53:43 +0000

A Rain Falling Star is a compilation of Thea’s thoughtful journal entries for English class interspersed with her beautiful artwork, all of which were first attempts at using the different mediums. We hope her wisdom and talent will provide one of those rare sparks of passionate light we all need in a sometimes dark world. Or in Thea’s beautiful words, may this journal be for you a “rain falling star.”

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Arkansas A+ Schools

Paul — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:07:33 +0000

Arkansas A+ Schools is a teaching philosophy rooted in the research and development in North Carolina (42 schools) and Oklahoma (70 schools) is touted as the nation’s most successful arts-based, whole-school reform model.

Earlier this year, the A+ program was recognized by the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities for reinforcing “the power of the arts to improve the lives and learning of students and teachers.” By integrating the arts into the instruction of every subject it enhances creativity and strengthens the mastery of core subjects.

Now it in place in a half dozen public schools in Arkansas, thanks, in part to help from leaders in the A+ program in Oklahoma.

The Thea Foundation is now partnering with Oklahoma A+ Schools, the leader in A+ professional development training in America. Statistics over the past nine years, in sixty-eight public, private and charter schools across Oklahoma proves that the A+ teaching process can successfully be replicated to create high performing schools, every time.

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