To recognize and promote excellence and effort in the fine arts community.

Submissions

Achievement. Résumé Building. Confidence.

 

2025 submissions are closed.
Finalists will be announced soon!

Thank you to each and every student artist who submitted for this year’s Slaughter Family Arts Awards. We are amazed at your talent and dedication to your craft. Please watch your email inbox this month. We will email finalists with important information. Keep an eye on our Instagram and Facebook pages for the announcement as well.

  • Mark Your Calendars! The 2025 SFAAwards Ceremony will be Sunday, April 6 at 5:30pm at Fort Worth Country Day’s Scott Theater. New this year, we will begin with a finalists-only event before the ceremony! Watch for details. Tickets to the ceremony for the general public will go on sale March 1.

About Awards:

  • Each award comes with a $300 scholarship!

  • Every finalist earns a $50 scholarship!

  • Public, private, and homeschooled students in grades 9-12 from the Fort Worth will be considered. See eligible districts here.

  • If you’d like, please review rubrics used to judge each category.

CATEGORIES

 

Dance

  • Excellence in Performance

  • Excellence in Choreography

Review rubrics.
Submissions are now closed.

Voice

  • Excellence in Classical Vocal Performance

  • Excellence in Contemporary Vocal Performance

Review rubrics.
Submissions are now closed.

 

Music

  • Excellence in Classical Solo Instrumental Performance

  • Excellence in Contemporary Solo Instrumental Performance

Review rubrics.
Submissions are now closed.

Theatre

  • Excellence in Monologue Performance

  • Excellence in Musical Theatre Vocal Performance

  • Excellence in Technical Theatre and Design (read submission requirements)

Review rubrics.
Submissions are now closed.

 

Visual Arts

  • Excellence in 3D Art

  • Excellence in Painting

  • Excellence in Drawing

  • Excellence in Photography

Review rubrics.
Submissions are now closed.

 
 
 

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
— Oscar Wilde