The Art Institute of Portland announces its search to find the next winner of The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition. The call for entries is open to high school seniors throughout the U.S., Canada (excluding Quebec) and Puerto Rico. High school seniors with a passion for fashion design or the business side of fashion are encouraged to submit an entry to The Art Institute of Portland. Entries must be postmarked by November 19, 2010.

The competition consists of two separate categories, Fashion Design or Fashion Marketing & Merchandising. Local competitions will take place at each participating Art Institute school throughout U.S. and Canada. The Art Institute of Portland’s local Fashion Design competition winner and local Fashion Marketing & Merchandising competition winner will earn a $3,000 tuition scholarship to the school. Local first place winners from each school will move on to the national competition. The national grand prize winners in each category will earn a full tuition scholarship to their respective Art Institutes school. In addition, the grand prize winners will receive a VIP trip to Fashion Week in New York City in February 2011, participate in a “meet and greet” at Seventeen Magazine’s New York City offices, and lunch with a Seventeen Magazine Style Pro.

“It is our distinct honor to produce the annual Passion for Fashion Competition. We believe the competition provides a forum by which those interested in a fashion education can express their full range of talent,” said Sue Bonde, Academic Director for the Apparel Department at The Art Institute of Portland.

The Art Institutes Passion For Fashion Competition is open to legal residents of the fifty United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are full-or part-time high school seniors scheduled to graduate in 2011 with a minimum 2.0 cumulative grade point average. Entries must be submitted along with a completed Entry & Release Form to The Art Institute of Portland, 1122 NW Davis St. Portland, OR 97209. Entries must be postmarked by November 19, 2010.

Please log on to www.artinstitutes.edu/pr.aspx?ID=AI2119 to learn more about The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition or contact Chrissy Purcell, Scholarship Coordinator at The Art Institute of Portland, cpurcell (at) aii.edu or call 503.382.4784.

The Art Institute of Portland is one of The Art Institutes (www.artinstitutes.edu), a system of more than 45 education institutions located throughout North America, providing an important source of design, media arts, fashion and culinary arts professionals.