Moanalua High School has won $50,000 for their high school's art program in
the 13th annual Vans High School Custom Culture competition
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MESA, Calif., May 23, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- Vans is thrilled to announce Moanalua High School
as the winner of the 13th annual Vans Custom
Culture competition and honoree of $50,000 for their school's art program. The
remaining four finalists, Central High School, Avella Jr. Sr. High
School, Sisters High School and Wrangell High School will also
receive limited-edition Vans gifts and $15,000 to support their high school art
programs.
New this year, each of the top five schools will receive an
artist mentorship lesson from one of Vans' art ambassadors: Tony
Whlgn, Sydney G. James, Jay Howell, Todd
Francis, Mich Miller, Kelly
Breez, Camilo Medina,
Noah Humes, O.J. Hays, Tony Whlgn,
Sara Yukiko Mon, and David Heo.
To celebrate this incredible moment, students at Moanalua High
School received a surprise party on their high school campus,
including a special guest appearance from singer-songwriter Bishop
Briggs to celebrate at the school's campus.
"Moanalua's graduation is this Friday,
May 20. Knowing that I ended my senior year with that kind
of thing… I'm really happy and I wanted to cry happy tears," said
Jaidalyn Kamaunu, a senior at Moanalua. "We worked nearly every
single day after school for about one to two hours a day. There
were days on the weekends, we would dedicate a whole entire
seven-hour workday just to work on the shoes," noted another
Moanalua student, 11th grader Dianne Cabico.
Thank you to our partners for empowering this competition,
including Yoobi, Vans' exclusive art supplies partner who provided
gift cards to all the participating schools for them to purchase
much-needed art supplies, Scholarship America for
community-based scholarship programs, and Journeys, who awarded all
participating students a gift card to their store in recognition of
their accomplishments.
Vans Custom Culture has reached hundreds of thousands of
students, continuing to show how impactful art programs are by
donating over $1,110,000 USD back to
high school art programs to date. Please visit Vans Custom
Culture to learn how to register your school next year or
follow us on social at @VansCustomCulture for design inspiration
and how-to lessons from Vans art ambassadors.
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over 2,000 retail locations globally including owned, concession
and partnership doors. The Vans® brand promotes
creative self-expression in youth culture across action sports,
art, music and street culture and delivers progressive platforms
such as Vans Checkerboard Day, Vans Park Series,
Vans Triple Crown of Surfing®, Vans Custom
Culture, and Vans' cultural hub and international music
venue, House of Vans.
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