The George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts 2023 Visual Arts and Songwriting Contest
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The George Rodrique Foundation for the Arts and the Trombone Shorty Foundation are once again inviting high school students to enter visual art and original songs in a contest, this year with the theme "Off the Beaten Path: Weird, Wild and Abstract". Open to high school juniors and seniors all across the state, thirteen students will be chosen to share the twenty-five thousand dollars in scholarship money as well as an opportunity for their artwork to tour on exhibition across Louisiana in 2023, while the first-place songwriting winner will have the opportunity to perform at the Trombone Shorty Foundation’s annual fundraiser, Shorty Fest, next May. Deadline for entry submission is Friday January 20, 2023.