{"id":5798,"date":"2016-11-17T10:51:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T15:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=5798"},"modified":"2016-11-22T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T17:30:04","slug":"art-contest-spotlights-experiences-military-connected-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/art-contest-spotlights-experiences-military-connected-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Art contest spotlights experiences of military-connected children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the fifth year, Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) is partnering with the Military School Liaison Officers and Lynnhaven Mall to host <em>The <em>Art of Being a Military Child<\/em><\/em>\u00a0citywide art contest and exhibit. The contest is open to all VBCPS students in grades K-12, and submissions should feature experiences related to being a military-connected child. The deadline to submit artwork is Friday, Dec. 16.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Art-of-Military-Child-image.jpg\" alt=\"art-of-military-child-image\" width=\"1398\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Art-of-Military-Child-image.jpg 1398w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Art-of-Military-Child-image-300x177.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Art-of-Military-Child-image-768x454.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Art-of-Military-Child-image-1024x606.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Art-of-Military-Child-image-400x237.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1398px) 100vw, 1398px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Winning artwork and other select pieces will be displayed in an exhibit at Lynnhaven Mall in April in recognition of The Month of the Military Child. Photos from last year\u2019s exhibit at Lynnhaven Mall are available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/VBSchools\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=960090554106302\">VBSchools Facebook page<\/a>.\u00a0Contest entries may also be selected for submission to the Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC), a national organization that features student artwork in its publications and website.\u00a0MCEC has included artwork by VBCPS students in its annual calendar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5799\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Art-Exhibit.jpg\" alt=\"art-exhibit\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Art-Exhibit.jpg 1366w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Art-Exhibit-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Art-Exhibit-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Art-Exhibit-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Art-Exhibit-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For more details on\u00a0<em>The Art of Being a Military Child<\/em>\u00a0contest, including contact information and an entry form, visit this link on the school division\u2019s website: www.vbschools.com\/military\/content\/pdfs\/ArtofBeingaMilitaryChild.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the fifth year, Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) is partnering with the Military School Liaison Officers and Lynnhaven Mall to host The Art of Being a Military Child\u00a0citywide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-5798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-connections","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5802,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions\/5802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}