TEDxGREENVILLE 2011 Issues Art Challenge to High School Students

GREENVILLE, SC – December 13, 2010 – Organizers of TEDxGreenville 2011 have released details of the “X Marks the Spot High School Challenge.” The public challenge is directed at high school students to see who can create a work of art to represent this year’s TEDxGreenville event, which is being held at The Peace Center’s Gunter Theatre and Amphitheatre on the day and night of March 18. The art is supposed to exemplify the event’s theme: Inspiring Our Future.

TEDxGreenville hosts an annual independently organized TED event enjoyed by a diverse group of movers and shakers from the Upstate and beyond. The events focus on “ideas worth spreading” from business, academic, and non-profit organizations, as well as top entertainers, visual artists, and performance artists. The inaugural TEDxGreenville event, which took place on March 5, 2010 at CU-ICAR, sold out within days and received rave reviews from event participants.

Conference organizers are going all out to make sure this year’s TEDx event exceeds expectations. Aaron von Frank, who helped plan TEDxGreenville 2010 as well as the internationally recognized Google On Main event, says “If we can pull off half of what we’re planning to do with TEDxGreenville 2011, this will make any other event that I’ve ever been involved with look like a warm-up.”     

“It’s only right that the art we use to represent this year’s event is created by our youth, because they are not only a part of this community, they are our future,” says Ric Standridge, a well-known Greenville artist who is part of the TEDxGreenville planning team.

The deadline for high school students to submit their artwork is midnight on Sunday, January 2, 2011. High school students, art teachers, or school administrators who want to find out more about the X Marks the Spot High School Challenge can do so by visiting www.TEDxGreenville.org.