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Office of Arts & Culture - Special Announcement |
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Digital Equity Art Contest
Winners Announcement!
The City has concluded its third participation in the annual Digital Inclusion Week hosted by NDIA. This year's theme - Building Connected Communities - sought to increase public knowledge of the importance of digital equity, encourage digital inclusion efforts across our City to improve broadband access, foster adoption, and promote digital literacy.
Nine submissions were received, with the top three selected winners addressing digital equity and inclusion awareness in their art. And addressed at least one digital equity theme, including the four digital inclusion pillars: affordability, access, devices, and digital skills training – necessities that millions of Americans live without.
We are excited to announce the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners with you, along with their digital equity art pieces and descriptions below. Art pieces will be available for viewing at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library on the 6th Floor.
To learn more about the City’s efforts to bridge the digital divide, visit bit.ly/dallasdigitaldivide.
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First Place Winner - Nguyen Tran
This art piece shows the power of technology to elevate and operationalize the Racial Equity Plan of the City of Dallas by bridging the Digital Divide.
This artwork illustrates how people from all walks of life are connected by technology. The help you need might just be one mouse-click away. Because technology is a two-edged sword. While it has the power to "digitally divide" if we allowed inequity to continue, it also has the power to unite and mobilize, as we saw through the snowstorm of 2021.
By Nguyen Tran, Savannah College of Arts and Design Graduate, Dallas resident
Note: For full Artist Statement click here
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 Second Place - Hai Tran
[My mother's] inspiration of technology later led me to tutor my little sister in using Wacom as her digital coloring book to color Japanese anime characters such as Sakura the Card-Captor.
The torch was passed down from generation to generation. And I would never forget the sparkle of pride in my mom's eyes as I learned how to put my thoughts into a neat table format in MS Word. Now my Mom is in her sixties, with blurred vision and battling chemo. I remember sitting on her hospital bed, teaching her the latest technology of the 2020s and her struggling to keep up because of old age.
I told her: "Mom, I'm going to slow down so you can understand, and that's okay because that's what you did for me. If you manage to learn this, I have a flan cake waiting for you in the fridge!"
By Hai Tran
Note: For full Artist Statement click here
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 Third Place - Joey Myers
[I] wanted to create a simple infographic like illustration using one of my favorite stained glass styles.
This shows an entire community connected to the basic knowledge, capital, and resources, so they can reach their goals in business, education, creativity, healthcare and more.
By Joey Myers
To learn more about the City’s efforts to bridge the digital divide, visit bit.ly/dallasdigitaldivide.
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