Sugar Land, TX – Fort Bend Christian Academy’s Visual Arts program was recently recognized as the 2023 TAPPS 5A Art State Champions. FBCA was also awarded this recognition in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, and this year, 2023.
Under the direction of the Director of Fine Arts, Robert Sanders, the program continues to excel and encompass a wide variety of visual art mediums. FBCA has 157 students who participate in the art program at the Upper School level. This year, 35 Upper School Students submitted work for the State Competition. FBCA scored over 313 points, which was 123.5 points more than the second competitor and culminated in the State Championship title.
At the state level, FBCA students have excelled in drawing – black & white & color, communication design, computer rendered art, painting, printmaking, 2d mixed media, photography black & white & color, sculpture, 2d relief, fashion design, textile arts, applied/industrial design, pottery, ceramics, senior portfolio, art history, on-site drawing seek and sketch – black and white & color, and short film (narrative, documentary, animation).
TAPPS State Art 2010 to 2023
2023 1st Place- TAPPS 2023 State Art Champions 5A
2022 1st Place- TAPPS 2022 State Art Champions 5A
2021 3rd Place – TAPPS 2021 State Art Online- 3rd Place 5A
2020 Senior Portfolio Students placed ,2nd,3rd,4th, 6th, 7th https://tapps.biz/art-awards-2019-2020/ (Covid/ TAPPS was Canceled)
2019 1st Place- TAPPS 2019 State Art Champions 5A
2018 1st Place- TAPPS 2018 State Art Champions 5A
2018 Senior Portfolio Students placed 1st,2nd,3rd,4th, 6th, 8th
2017 1st Place- TAPPS 2017 State Art Champions 5A
2016 2nd Place- TAPPS 2016 Art State Art Runners Up 4A
2015 1st Place- TAPPS 2015 State Art Champions 4A
2014 1st Place- TAPPS 2014 State Art Champions 4A
2014 1st Place- TAPPS 2014 Art State District Champions 4A
2013 1st Place- TAPPS 2013 State Art Champions 4A
2013 1st Place- TAPPS 2013 Art State District Champions 4A
2012 1st Place- TAPPS 2012 State Art Champions 4A
2012 1st Place- TAPPS 2012 Art State District Champions 4A
2011 1st Place- TAPPS 2011 State Art Champions 4A
2011 1st Place- TAPPS 2011 Art State District Champions 4A
2010 2nd Place- TAPPS 2010 Art State Art Runners Up 4A
2010 2nd Place – TAPPS 2010 Art State District Runners Up 4A
“This year as an Upper School we were charged to “Be the City on the Hill.” We have to start with the hearts and souls of the artist/students. Love your students and anything is possible but if they love you back you have something special. Often I remind our team about a Jim Elliot quote; ‘He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.’ Sacrifice does not come cheap and it will cost us all something. We don’t want to confuse Legacy with our Christ Centered purpose to partner with our students to be salt and light. We balance the journey with the words of Robert Kushner in our visual arts program that states, ‘The idea of forging a new kind of art, about hope, healing, redemption, refuge, while maintaining visual sophistication and intellectual integrity is our growing movement, we want artist to work toward the meaning of the word vanguard,’” Director of Fine Arts, Robert Sanders, said.
