Americans for the Arts celebrates its 4th year of partnering with Vans for the Custom Culture student arts and design contest.

Vans Custom Culture was created to inspire and empower high school students to embrace their creativity through art and design, and to bring attention to diminishing arts education budgets. Custom Culture is a national high school art competition during which students use four pairs of blank Vans shoes to be customized around four themes: Art, Music, Action Sports and Local Flavor. The Top 5 Finalists will be flown to the Final Event in NYC, where a Grand Prize winner will be determined. The winner of the Grand Prize will receive $50,000 for their high school art program and a chance for their designs to be sold in Vans’ retail stores. Runners up receive $4,000 towards their schools' art programs.

Registration opens January 5, 2015 and closes February 13, 2015. For full details visit www.vans.com/customculture