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2024 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION IS NOW LIVE!
With over 150 submissions from 9 different countries, this year's exhibition is the best yet! Get encouraged by checking out these incredible works of art honoring the amazing women that inspire us everyday!
ENTER 2024 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TODAY!
We are excited to announce that we are now accepting applications to our Annual Virtual Exhibition until May 10, 2024! Create an artwork of a woman in your life who is a "FOREVER FEAMLE" and submit it using Google Form link below. We cannot wait to see your masterpiece!
HOLIDAY OUTREACH
For the 16th consecutive year, Lucia Bocchino Fund has partnered with House of Mercy Mission, based in Newark, NJ, to donate over 100 dolls to gift those in need during the 2023 holiday season. Additionally, Lucia Bocchino Fund has donated over 300 coats to House of Mercy Mission this 2023 - 2024 winter, as well!
VIEW 2023 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
Thank you to all of the promising young artists that entered this year's exhibition, PHENOMENAL WOMEN! We were ecstatic to receive over 100 submissions from over 10 countries! We cannot wait to see more masterpieces from you all next year!
ENTER OUR 2023 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION!
The form to enter LBF's 2023 virtual exhibition "PHENOMENAL WOMEN" is now live! Enter the exhibition by creating a masterpiece honoring a PHENOMENAL woman in your life who inspires you and submit via google form! We cannot wait to see your masterpiece!
See work from 250 Promising Young Artists from 18 countries honoring the women in their lives who inspire them! Thank you to all promising young artists that participated!
ENTER OUR 2022 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION!
The form to enter LBF's 2022 virtual exhibition "HERSTORY" is now live! Enter the exhibition by creating a portrait of a woman in your life who inspires you and submit via google form! We cannot wait to see your masterpiece!
Our 2021 Newsletter is here!
Click below to read our 2021 Newsletter! A big shout-out to all of the promising young artists that made this year's annual exhibition such a success! We are in the process of mailing out all of your prizes, please be patient and contact us if you do not receive them in the coming weeks. Thank you and keep up the amazing work!
With over 600 masterpieces from promising young artists from over 36 countries and 18 US states - this virtual exhibition is like no other! In its 13th year, the Lucia Bocchino Fund continues to support promising young artists from all over the world in their pursuit of art and arts education. Check out this exhibition now and thank you to all of the promising young artists that made this event possible!
ENTER OUR 2021 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION!
The form to enter our 2021 Virtual Exhibition "WONDER WOMEN" is now LIVE! Enter the exhibition by creating a portrait of a WONDER WOMAN in your life who inspires you and submit via google form!
Ribbons Around the World!
After having promising young artists from all over the world participate in our exhibition, we were ecstatic to send prizes to thank them for their participation! Below, a promising young artist in Lithuania stands with a beautiful masterpiece he created of his mother and the ribbon we sent him - as well as, the touching email message his mother wrote to us!
We are so excited to reward children all over the world for cultivating their artistic talents!
Did you receive your prize? Send us a picture and we'll post it on our social media and website!
OUR FIRST NEWSLETTER
To document everything the Lucia Bocchino Fund has been up to to in 2020, we created our FIRST newsletter! Click the image above or button below to read what we've been up to - or download a copy for yourself!
OUR 2020 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION IS NOW LIVE!
Select "2020 Virtual Exhibition" to see over 150 submissions from promising young artists all over the world!
SELECT THE LINK "2020 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION" IN ORDER TO SEE THE MASTERPIECES OF OVER 100 PROMISING YOUNG ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD HONORING THE AMAZING WOMEN IN THEIR LIVES! AND THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL OF THE AMAZING PROMISING YOUNG ARTISTS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO BE A PART OF THIS INCREDIBLE EVENT! WE WERE BLOWN AWAY BY YOUR TALENT AND HOPE TO SEE MORE OF IT IN THE FUTURE!
LBF on PBS's
American Portrait:
A National Storytelling Project
Click the photo above or link below to see our response to the prompt "I Never Expected..."We at the Lucia Bocchino Fund never expected our first Virtual exhibition to become the international success that it is! With over 157 submission from over 30 countries and over 15 US states - we were astounded by the incredible masterpieces submitted by promising young artists in grades Pre-K through 12th grade.
Check us out on Bernardsville News
Instead of allowing the coronavirus pandemic to derail the annual Lucia Bocchino Fund for Promising Young Artists’ Children’s Art Exhibit, the foundation came up with a creative solution that has expanded the event’s reach far beyond the Somerset Hills.
Lucia Bocchino Fund donates 65 arts education books to Art Teachers at Newark Public Schools
On January 15, 2020, the Lucia Bocchino Fund for Promising Young Artists presented 65 educational, art-centric children books to the Visual Art Teachers of the Newark Public Schools at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) auditorium.
LBF Donates to Tilly's Kids in Newark, NJ
Just in time for the holidays! In December 2019, the Lucia Bocchino Fund teamed up with Tilly's kids, a nonprofit organization in Newark, NJ in order to provides kids in need with a gift in time for Christmas.