Last year Vans introduced Vans Custom Culture, a nationwide contest for high school art classes in which we provided white Vans shoes as a blank canvas for students to come up with their best, most creative designs. The goal was and is to celebrate young creative expression and draw attention to the importance of art education in the face of dwindling budgets. Students from nearly 330 schools across 48 states worked together with their classmates to create pieces of art that were nothing short of amazing. The public voted the top four schools into the finals and Vans flew them
Last year Vans introduced Vans Custom Culture, a nationwide contest for high school art classes in which we provided white Vans shoes as a blank canvas for students to come up with their best, most creative designs. The goal was and is to celebrate young creative expression and draw attention to the importance of art education in the face of dwindling budgets. Students from nearly 330 schools across 48 states worked together with their classmates to create pieces of art that were nothing short of amazing. The public voted the top four schools into the finals and Vans flew them 
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