It has been a most successful year for the Etobicoke School of the Arts Visual Arts Department!
At time of writing Etobicoke School of the Arts Visual Art grade 12 students have received almost $2 million dollars in scholarship offers!
Here are a few of our other achievements this year:
ESA students won 248 awards (including 128 Regional Gold medals!) in the 2013 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards which represents roughly 50% of all awards given to students around the globe outside of the US. In the National Award round, of the 44 Gold and Silver medals awarded to Canadians, 24 went to students from ESA! Selections from those works will be exhibited at Carnegie Hall in New York at the end of May and tour for two years.
Grade 11 ESA Visual Art student Izzy Burgwin will be exhibiting at Saatchi Gallery in London, England this April – Saatchi Gallery, Duke Of York’s HQ, King’s Road, London, SW3 4RY https://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/portfolio/
Grade 11 ESA Visual Art student Kevin Nguyen will be exhibiting his work in both across Australia and in New York City this year after winning international art competitions!
Here is a link to a great documentary piece on the hugely successful ESA Grade 12 Visual Art show from earlier in the year at the Samuel L Zacks Gallery at York University:
https://vimeo.com/60778208
Eight Etobicoke School of the Arts Visual Art students will be exhibiting at the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo this spring and summer. The exhibition will be held between May 3 and June 16, 2013, with an exhibition opening celebration on Thursday, May 2, from 5 to 9 pm.
https://www.albrightknox.org/exhibitions/exhibition:05-03-2013-introspection-individual-interaction-2013-ak-teens-future-curators-exhibition-/
ESA students are exhibiting once again at Contact Photography Festival. https://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/events/1168
Our Annual Portfolio Day event attracted its largest ever number of schools this year. On November 9, 2012 we had 46 schools from 7 countries attend to speak with our grade 12 Visual Art, Photography, and Film students about their portfolios. Many students were offered acceptances into schools that day, and scholarship offers were made. As far as we know this is the largest Portfolio Day event of its kind.
ESA Visual Art grade 12 students have been accepted into more than thirty different programs around the world and have broken our record for most scholarships in one year!
Visual Art Students have been accepted into programs in the following schools to date:
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Emily Carr University
Virginia Commonwealth University
OCADU
Paris College of Art
Art Institute of Boston
Savannah College of Art and Design
Santé Fe College of Art and Design
Pratt Institute
The Art Institute of San Francisco
Maryland Institute College of Art
Ryerson University
Western University
Queens University
University of Toronto
Central St. Martins
College of Creative Studies
Waterloo University
McGill University
Guelph University
Ottawa University
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
University of the Arts London
Trent University
McMaster University
Humber College
Mohawk College
Seneca College
York University
Kendall College of Art and Design
Concordia University
Carlton College
Reed University
San Francisco Art Institute
In a diverse range of programs including:
Engineering, Science, Space Engineering, Photography, History, Aerospace Engineering, Service and Aviation, Writing, Pre-law, Molecular Biology, Life Science, Cognitive Science, Laboratory Medicine, Independent Digital Photography, Bio Medical Engineering, Accounting, Nursing, Bio Medical Science, Environmental Science, Studio Art, Painting and Drawing, Fashion Design, Illustration, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Humanities, and General Science, and Photography
Congratulations all!