Adopt-A-School Art & Essay Contest

  • Denton ISD’s Adopt-A-School program recently honored this year’s district winners in the annual Adopt-A-School Art and Essay Contest. This year’s awards presentation was announced in partnership with the Denton Black Film Festival and Meow Wolf at the Patterson-Appleton Arts Center on Wednesday, Jan. 22. The evening featured the recognitions of the top three fourth and fifth-grade district finalists in three categories: art, monolingual essay and bilingual essay.

    Every year, the Adopt-A-School Program works with our elementary schools across Denton ISD to participate in the annual Art & Essay Competition. Every 4th and 5th grade student submits an original piece of artwork and an essay (written in English or Spanish) based on the yearly topic. In the spirit of partnership with the Denton Black Film Festival, we have collaborated on this year’s theme, Resilience. 

    With the help of our Art & Essay Collaboration Team, we were able to streamline that theme throughout our topics that were presented to our students: Art Topic: Captain Resilience - Design a super character at your school that never gives up. Written Topic: Write about a time in school where you showed resilience and did not give up.

    This book is dedicated to the teachers of Denton ISD. Through the hard work and commitment of the classroom teacher, students’ reading and writing skills continue to flourish. This book of essays and artwork exemplifies the outstanding student writers and artists.

    View all the district winners and campus first-place winners below:
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  • Fourth-Grade District Winners

  • Fifth-Grade District Winners

  • Fourth-Grade Art, First Place

  • Fourth-Grade English Essay, First Place

  • Fourth-Grade Spanish Essay, First Place

  • Fifth-Grade Art, First Place

  • Fifth-Grade English Essay, First Place

  • Fifth-Grade Spanish Essay, First Place

Art & Essay Photo Albums

AAS Art & Essay Trophy Distribution 2024
Art & Essay Campus Finalists

Art & Essay Book

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