Reflections Arts Program

All Interlake artists arise! Reflections is ON now and is calling creative minds!

Unleash your artistic talent and participate in Reflections 2022-23!!!

 

The arts—and the National PTA® Reflections program—support student success and serve as a valuable tool for engaging families and building strong partnerships in the school community.

Founded in 1969, Reflections engages over 300,000 students and their families in arts education activities each year by encouraging students to explore the arts for fun and recognition.

The 2022-2023 Reflections theme is “Show Your Voice” Students of all grades and abilities may participate.


Students are encouraged to submit original work of art in one or more of the following Arts Categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, Visual Arts.
The National PTA Reflections program supports student success and serves as a valuable tool for building strong partnerships in the school community. Students with disabilities may receive special accommodation by entering the special artist division.
The due date for Reflections entries to be received by the Interlake PTSA is “11:59pm on Dec 4th, 2022”. The format of the submission is still virtual this year.

How to Participate

1. Download the Student Entry Form and complete the Student Entry Form.

2. Each entry should include 3 files: Artwork, Entry Form, and Statement.

Artwork should be named as

category_level_title_phonenumberandfirstandlastinital_artwork

Entry form should be named as

category_level_title_phonenumberandfirstandlastinital_entryform (format: pdf)

Statement should be named as

category_level_title_phonenumberandfirstandlastinital_statement (format: word)

Eg: Dance_HS_MyVoice_4256789999JD_artwork

2. Please upload your artwork to your one drive or google drive, then send us your one drive or google drive link in case the file is too big to send by email.

3. Please email your completed entry form along with your artwork (in the accepted format) to email address: Shanshan Wu at wuxj108@hotmail.com and Xiuxia Liu at xiuxia@hotmail.com

Entries without an entry form will be disqualified. Please fill the entry form completely. The visual art and photography entries should be high quality images (consider local businesses like Kinkos, office depot for high-quality images).

Student Entry Packets

Detailed rules about the program are available here

We are looking forward to seeing some great creativity this year as well!

Questions? Contact Shanshan Wu at wuxj108@hotmail.com and Xiuxia Liu at xiuxia@hotmail.comStudents are encouraged to submit original work of art in one or more of the following Arts Categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, Visual Arts.
The National PTA Reflections program supports student success and serves as a valuable tool for building strong partnerships in the school community. Students with disabilities may receive special accommodation by entering the special artist division.
We are very proud to share that Tanushri Narendran’s Dance Choreography—-Devi, the embodiment of femininity has won Award of Excellence at Washington State Level. Congratulations!
Here is the full list of Washington State PTA reflections finalists.
The Bellevue Council Finalists for Reflections 2020-2021 
Thank you for your support to Reflections programs this year. We are very proud to share that the reflections entry below from Interlake High School has been advanced to the state level competition. Congratulations to Tanushri Narendran for advancing to the next level competition and good luck on the further journey!
Dance Choreograph     Tanushri Narendran     Devi, the embodiment of femininity     Outstanding Interpretation
Here the full list of finalists from Bellevue PTSA Council and below is the video link for the finalist.
https://youtu.be/Q7vSFtgiWbw
Many thanks to our artists who participated in Reflections program.

Student Name   Arts Category 
Aishwarya Agrawal Literature
Aishwarya Agrawal Photography
Aishwarya Agrawal Visual Arts
Ananya Aatreya Visual Arts
Angel Shen Visual Arts
Annie Hong Visual Arts
Christopher Yu Literature
Krithipriya Narendran Dance
Moriah Lee Music Composition

What is different this year: All the entries will be collected virtually.

Here are some useful tips about how to submit your artwork virtually, please CLICK to see. 

To participate, you should download the Rules and Student entry form and email your completed entry form along with your artwork (in the accepted format) to both email addresses : Abhilasha Patil at abhilasha_h_patil@yahoo.com and Shanshan Wu at wuxj108@hotmail.com.
Please upload your artwork to your one drive or google drive, then send us your one drive or google drive link in case the file is too big to send by email.

Entry form should be named as “Your FirstNameLastNameEntryForm” eg: JaneDoe_EntryForm

Entries should be named as “Your FirstNameLastName” eg: JaneDoe_VisualArts

Entries without an entry form will be disqualified. Please fill the entry form completely. The Visual art and photography entries should be high quality images (consider local businesses like kinkos, office depot for high quality images). If your entries advances to Nationals, you will be asked to provide the physical entry.

Deadline for sending your entries is November 9th, 2020 (Monday)

Detailed rules about the program are available here and links for specific art rules are as follows:

  • Dance Choreography Rules File must not exceed 5 min. and 1 GB in size. Accepted formats: AVI or MP4.
  • Film Production Rules File must not exceed 5 min. and 1 GB in size. Accepted formats: AVI or MP4.
  • Music Composition Rules File must not exceed 5 min. and 1 GB in size. Accepted formats: MP3 and WAV.NOTATION required Score/tablature in PDF format.
  • Literature Rules Must not exceed 2,000 words. May be handwritten or typed. Acceptable format: PDF.
  • Visual Arts Rules Mounted on sturdy material. No larger than 24x30x½ inches with matting. No framed entries or stretched canvas. No loose materials. Must include a digital image of artwork Acceptable formats: JPEG, JPG, and PNG We will not be receiving the physical artwork unless it advances to National.
  • Photography Rules Must be no smaller than 3×5 inches and no larger than 8×10 inches. Accepted print formats: Mounted on rigid material no larger than 11×14 inches and no thicker than ½ inch. Accepted digital formats: JPEG, JPG, and PNG. Framed prints are not accepted. We will not be receiving the physical artwork unless it advances to National.

 We are looking forward to seeing some great creativity this year as well!

Questions? Contact Abhilasha Patil (425-420-4894) at abhilasha_h_patil@yahoo.com
ShanShan Wu at wuxj108@hotmail.com