SAN FRANCISCO—Fei Tian Academy of the Arts California, a private school for grades 6-12 that provides traditional arts education and rigorous academics to Bay Area students, recently announced that three of their students won awards in the annual Young at Art Competition.
Seventh graders Linda Lei, Alice Kuang, and Jocelyn Su placed first, second, and third place respectively in the middle school short story category. The competition has been held annually for 25 years with the goal of encouraging students in kindergarten through twelfth grade to take interest in and produce works of visual art, literary art, media art, and performing art. Literary art includes short story, poetry, and nonfiction categories for middle school and high school in addition to a dramatic script category.
The Young at Art competition limits each school to 10 entries for each literary arts category. They received over 2,000 entries in various categories this year. The awards presentation will be held May 21, 2011 in the De Young Museum. The judge for the short story category, author Noria Jablonski, will present the awards to those winning students. Some of the literary entries will be read to the audience.
Fei Tian Academy of the Arts California has been open since March of 2010. They strive to help students improve their character through a developed knowledge and understanding of traditional arts and culture. In addition to a low teacher-to-student ratio and greater than average individual attention in the academic department, full time students gain focus and momentum from rigorous dance, music, and fine arts classes that carries over to their academic courses.
Seventh graders Linda Lei, Alice Kuang, and Jocelyn Su placed first, second, and third place respectively in the middle school short story category. The competition has been held annually for 25 years with the goal of encouraging students in kindergarten through twelfth grade to take interest in and produce works of visual art, literary art, media art, and performing art. Literary art includes short story, poetry, and nonfiction categories for middle school and high school in addition to a dramatic script category.
The Young at Art competition limits each school to 10 entries for each literary arts category. They received over 2,000 entries in various categories this year. The awards presentation will be held May 21, 2011 in the De Young Museum. The judge for the short story category, author Noria Jablonski, will present the awards to those winning students. Some of the literary entries will be read to the audience.
Fei Tian Academy of the Arts California has been open since March of 2010. They strive to help students improve their character through a developed knowledge and understanding of traditional arts and culture. In addition to a low teacher-to-student ratio and greater than average individual attention in the academic department, full time students gain focus and momentum from rigorous dance, music, and fine arts classes that carries over to their academic courses.
