March 2 - 24, 2024
From the Art Museum of Southeast Texas:
“Artwork by local high school seniors, selected for the Annual Protégé
Competition and Exhibition, will be on view March 2 – 24, 2024 at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET).
Artworks will then travel to Lamar University and area schools for exhibition and outreach in the community.
Protégé Competition and Exhibition provides local 12th-graders exposure to the art world. AMSET believes
it is important for young artists to have an opportunity to experience art competitions and learn how to properly matt,
frame, and exhibit their artwork. Senior students in Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Newton, Orange,
and Tyler counties are eligible to participate.
This year’s juror is renowned photographer Keith Carter. Keith Carter, a Beaumont-based fine art
photographer and professor, is a gifted and insightful teacher who holds the Endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar
University, where his numerous awards include the University’s highest teaching honors. Carter’s work has explored
time, place, and vernacular culture across five continents for over fifty years. In addition, his work has been exhibited
in over one hundred and twenty solo exhibitions in thirteen countries. A new monograph: Ghostlight, was published
in 2022 and a fifty-year retrospective book, Keith Carter/Fifty Years, was published in 2018 by the University of
Texas Press. Both books are available in the museum gift shop.
In partnership with Lamar University Friends of the Arts, AMSET is able to offer the first, second and third
prize winners scholarships to committed Lamar University art majors. Those awards increased this year to the
semester-renewable amounts of: $1,000 for first place, $750 for second place and $500 for third place. Thanks to a
generous bequest left by Stewart M. Chisum and Bessie Fisher Chisum in 2021, AMSET will be offering an additional
$2,500 scholarship to the first-place winner should they declare art as a major in any two- or four-year academic art
program.
In addition to scholarship awards, varying denominations of gift certificate monies are awarded in the
following amounts: first place – $200, second place – $150, third place-$100, and honorable mentions – $50. The
teacher of the first-place winner will also receive $100 for classroom art supplies. These art supply awards are kindly
provided by Blick Art Materials.
AMSET will host the Protégé Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, March 5, 2023 from
6 – 7:30 p.m. Cookies and punch will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. For more information,
call (409) 832-3432 or visit www.amset.org.”
500 Main Street
Beaumont, 77701 TX
(409) 832-3432
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