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and Street Banner Project

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The Cowrie Street (Sechelt) Banner Project
Young Artists Awards and Exhibition


THE COWRIE STREET BANNER PROJECT

banner The Cowrie Street Banner Project began in 1994 as a joint venture between the Sechelt Chamber of Commerce and the Sunshine coast Arts Centre. Every fall, students in Kindergarten to Grade 12 in every school on the Sunshine coast are asked to submit designs for the banners, which are then hung on Cowrie Street the following summer. In approximately 2003, the priorities of the Chamber of Commerce changed, and the project is now sponsored entirely by the Sunshine Coast Arts Council.

After the theme for the current year is chosen, students aged 5 through 18 are asked to submit a design on a 4.25 x 11 sheet of paper.

banner After all the entries are received, they are put on exhibition in the gallery of the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre for three weeks, in conjunction with the Young Artists Awards exhibition. A committee selects the 17 finalists, and the winners are honoured at an awards ceremony on the final day of the exhibition. They are presented with a certificate of appreciation and a T-shirt with their design printed on it.

Each of the chosen designs is then projected and traced, and hand painted onto a 6-foot length of fabric by volunteer artists, being careful to match the original paint colours, and replicate the young artist's designs as carefully as possible. About 150 hours goes into this part of the project.

The following spring, the district of Sechelt's Engineering Department hangs the completed banners from the light posts on Cowrie Street for the summer months.

Watch for details each fall (October)



YOUNG ARTISTS AWARDS AND EXHIBITION
February 13 - March 9, 2008

another great success this year, watch for 2009

The Young Artists Awards and Exhibition provides cash awards.
award
    Eligibility:
  • between ages of 5 to 18
  • submit 3 works of art :
    - not done in school
    - ready to display / hang
    - framed if two dimensional
The work will be put on exhibition in the gallery of the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre for three weeks

click here for recipients of the 2008 awards, statements and images


2008 Program sponsored in colaboration with:
          Sunshine Coast Arts Council
          Sechelt Rotary Club
          Sunshine coast Teacher's Association
          Gibsons School of the Arts