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# Art Institute seeks teen cooks and poster designers
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/art-institute-seeks-teen-cooks-and-poster-designers/
- Published: 2005-02-10T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T06:04:44.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Attention high schoolers: If you can cook or make a poster, college could be The Art Institute of California, Los Angeles, is holding two competitions: One for cooking and one for graphic design. Both contests offer scholarships to winners to one of the 31 Art Institutes in the U.S.

Teen chefs can apply to compete at a March 12 cook-off by submitting a notebook with original recipes for a two-course meal, an entry form, and a high school transcript. One finalist from the local event will go on and compete in the national cook-off in Philadelphia.

High school seniors wishing to pursue a career in graphic design can enter the Art Institute’s poster contest, sponsored in conjunction with Americans for the Arts. Competitors must submit an original poster artwork design that expresses the slogan, “Art is a Global Language.” Artists must also provide a current high school transcript and a statement describing their design process, and why they want to attend one of the Art Institutes. Local judges will make a prelimary decision, and then winners will continue on to a national judging contest.

The first-place winner’s poster will be used in national marketing materials for Americans for the Arts. Americans for the Arts also will create an online gallery of all scholarship winning artwork on its Web site http://www.americansforthearts.org Both competitions are open to high school seniors. The deadline for entry in either competition is Feb. 11 For additional details, contact The Art Institute of California Los Angeles admissions department at (888) 646-4610 or visit www.artinstitutes.edu. Cat call this weekend

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 10, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/021005.pdf?ref=smdp.com)