For the fifth year, VSA arts and Volkswagen of America, Inc., have partnered to recognize and showcase young artists with disabilities, ages 16-25, who are living in the United States. This collaboration supports these artists at a critical time when many are deciding whether to pursue the arts as a career. The award validates, and helps finance, that life-defining choice.
Over 20,000 call-for-entries were sent to high schools and colleges around the country, inviting submissions that illustrated the theme "Destination Anywhere." Participants were asked to consider the picture plane as a destination, a place where the viewer might take a trip they never expected. The call also encouraged artists to contemplate their life and its relationship to art and disability. Selected from 206 submissions, these 15 finalists were awarded a total of $60,000 generously provided by Volkswagen of America, Inc.
