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TORONTO, Jan. 21,
2025 /CNW/ - Submissions are now open for the Art
Canada Institute's flagship educational initiative, the annual
Canadian Art Inspiration Student Challenge. Now in its fifth year,
this national competition invites young artists from coast to coast
to coast to create original works that pay homage to this country's
greatest historical and contemporary artists.
Special anniversary celebration at Art Toronto 2025
To celebrate this milestone, winning artworks from this year's
student challenge will be showcased at Art Toronto 2025,
Canada's largest contemporary art
fair, in a special exhibition this October. Winners will also
receive cash prizes and have their artworks included in an online
exhibition hosted on the Art Canada Institute's website.
How it works
Open to students in grades 7 to 12 across Canada, the challenge calls for submissions
inspired by or responding to key works by this nation's artistic
trailblazers. These may include contemporary visionaries like
Ojibwe activist artist Carl Beam
(1943–2005) and British Columbia
landscape artist Takao Tanabe
(b.1926), as well as icons like Montreal-based printmaker Betty Goodwin (1923–2008) and Nova Scotia basket weaver Edith Clayton (1920–1989).
To support the creative process and help educators easily
incorporate the challenge into their curricula, the Art Canada
Institute offers a Student Creativity Booklet with ten
classroom-ready activities designed to engage and inspire.
"Canada's art and its history
are catalysts for creativity and innovation," says Sara Angel, Founder and Executive Director of
the Art Canada Institute. "This challenge highlights the incredible
talent of young Canadians while deepening their connection to our
country's artistic legacy."
How to participate
To participate, teachers and
students can visit
https://www.aci-iac.ca/education/art-challenge/ to access
submission guidelines, the Student Creativity Booklet, additional
resources on Canadian art, and examples of previous years' winning
entries.
To explore the Art Canada Institute's bilingual, open-access
digital classroom resources, please visit
https://www.aci-iac.ca/education/.
About the Art Canada Institute
The Canadian Art
Inspiration Student Challenge is central to the Art Canada
Institute's mission to make Canada's art accessible to a
twenty-first-century audience through our go-to online learning
platform, which includes more than sixty expert-authored online art
books that are available free of charge. As well, the ACI produces
Canada's only comprehensive art
education guides for teachers and students from kindergarten to
grade 12—content that is also free online and serves over 700,000
educators.
The Art Canada Institute is the only national institution whose
mandate is to promote the study of an inclusive, multi-vocal
Canadian art history to as broad an audience as possible, on a
digital platform, and free of charge in both English and French,
across Canada and internationally.
To accomplish this, ACI works with Canada's leading cultural institutions, art
historians, curators, and visual culture experts, and is dedicated
to the creation of authoritative original content on the people,
themes, and topics that have defined Canadian art history.
To learn more about ACI and to access our free digital
library, please visit us!
aci-iac.ca
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