2024 Creative Gallery

1,800 Submissions

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592 Awardees

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$109,000 Cash Awards

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The Creative Youth Awards (CYA), founded by the Bay Area Creative Foundation, celebrate artistic expression and creativity among high school students across a range of disciplines. Submissions are reviewed by renowned leaders in the arts who share our commitment to uplifting and honoring the next generation of creative voices.

Each year, the program culminates in the Creative Youth Celebration—an event that showcases and celebrates the work of these emerging artists.

A person practicing dance or yoga in a spacious, empty indoor studio with a high ceiling and beige walls.
A young woman with long brown hair sitting cross-legged on a black background, wrapped and intertwined with large white, gourd-shaped, knobby tubular objects.
A group of young men wearing school uniforms standing on a wet city street at night, holding transparent umbrellas, discussing, surrounded by illuminated signs with Japanese characters, and closed storefronts and shuttered shops.
Group of dancers performing outdoors, with one woman in the center raising her arms, surrounded by two others in motion, on a clear day.
Person engaging in learning the alphabet with an eye chart, pointing and writing on a blackboard with yellow and white letters.
Painting of a traditional Chinese gate with green tiled roofs and decorative dragon sculptures on top, set against a mountain landscape background. Cars are parked underneath and around the gate.

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