30 th Annual Salinas Festival & Youth Art Contest Sponsored by the Bastrop Fine Arts Guild

The Salinas Youth Art Contest is held every year in honor of Bastrop born artist - Porfirio Salinas. From 1986 to 2014 Bastrop Association for the Arts did an outstanding job of sponsoring the event. In 2015 the BISD Salinas Art Council carried on the tradition. In the fall of 2015 Bastrop Fine Arts Guild accepted the sponsorship of the Salinas Festival and Youth Art Contest & Scholarship. The theme for the 2016 Salinas Youth Art Contest is: Fiesta

Porfirio Salinas Porfirio Salinas was born in Bastrop, Texas. He was a landscape painter who is best remembered for his depictions of the Texas Hill Country. Salinas was described by The New York Times as United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson's favorite painter. Works by Salinas are in the Texas State Capital, the Texas Governor's Mansion and in a number of museums including The Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas. Salinas learned from watching Jose Arpa, director of the San Antonio Art School and was mentored by prolific landscape painter Robert Wood. Salinas was generally recognized as one of the most successful artists in the Southwest. He painted many subjects in the United States, Mexico and Europe but his most loved paintings are of the landscapes of the gently rolling hills and valleys of his native Central Texas

Porfirio Salinas: November 6, 1910 to April 18, 1973

2015 Salinas : Theme – “Our Town” Melody Brand – 2015 T-shirt Winner

SALINAS ART SCHOLARSHIP A $1000 scholarship will be awarded to a senior art student. Applications will be available through your art teachers and counselors by March 1, 2016

Scholarship Winners from 2015 were: Edgar Flores, Bastrop High School & Esteban Diaz-Velasco, Cedar Creek High School

a public celebration in Spain and Latin America with parades and dances. An event marked by festivities or celebrationfestivities or celebration a public event when people celebrate and are entertained with music and dancing, usually connected with a religious festival in countries where the people speak Spanish. Synonyms: celebration, party, festivity, gala Salinas 2016 Theme is “Fiesta”

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when we grow up. Pablo Picasso