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Rules for 2009-10 school year calendar art contest
Art contest winners posted with May issue
The 2011 Cooperative Calendar of Student Art contest winners have been posted. The winning works appear in the May issue of Electric Consumer (here's the link), along with an article about the contest and the "Artist of the Year," the student whose work was picked as "Best of Show" by the judges (here's that link).
All Award of Merit certificates have been mailed to the schools or homes where the artworks originated and all non-winning works that requested to be returned have been returned. (If you requested to have your entry returned and included a SASE and have not yet received it, please contact us at 317-487-2220.)
Indiana’s electric cooperatives, the sponsors of the
contest and distributors of the calendar, and Electric Consumer, which coordinates the contest and produces the calendar, were once again thrilled by the almost 2,800 entries received from Indiana students in all grades, kindergarten through 12.
We thank all students who entered works, and also thank supportive parents, guardians, teachers, administrators and art instructors.
For the contest, each grade division was assigned
a month to illustrate (or the cover), and students competed only with
students from within their own grade. Thirteen first-place awards will
be presented.
The complete set of rules for the contest are still posted below and also available as a pdf you can download.
2011 calendar art contest rules
Who can enter: Any
Indiana student, attending any public or private school or schooled at
home, who is currently in the grades kindergarten through high school
senior.
• Students do not have to be consumers of a rural electric cooperative (REMC/REC).
• Artwork
can be submitted by teachers, 4-H leaders or others as a group or class
project, or by individual students or their parents or guardians.
• Students may enter as often as they wish.
How does the contest work:
Match the grade the student is in during the current (2009-10) school
year to the corresponding month. Students should draw or paint a
picture to illustrate their assigned month.
1st grade-January
2nd grade-February
3rd grade-March
4th grade-April
5th grade-May
6th grade-June
7th grade-July
8th grade-August
9th grade-September
10th grade-October
11th grade-November
12th grade-December
Kindergarten students will create the cover art. There is no theme for the cover: any subject, season, event, etc., is acceptable.
How is the contest judged:
Artwork will be judged on artistic merit, creativity and how well the
assigned month is depicted. Artwork can be landscapes, portraits, still
lifes, etc., as long as the monthly theme is somehow portrayed. (Try
new ideas; try not to repeat the winning works from past calendars!) A
panel of judges will pick winners.
• All artwork must be original
and not be copied from other copyrighted sources without substantial
creative changes; renderings of paintings or published photographs that
are deemed to be too similar to the source will be disqualified.
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Every element of the artwork (design, lines, marks, paint, color,
shapes, shading, highlights, etc.) must be the work of the student
whose name appears on the back of the artwork.
• No tracing of other works is allowed, including sketches by teachers, parents. etc.
• Photographs and artwork created with a computer will not be judged for inclusion in the calendar.
How should the artwork be submitted:
Drawings should be no larger than 11x14 inches and no smaller than 8x10
inches. (Paintings on canvas can be larger.) Drawings on white or
light-colored paper will reproduce best. Do not use ruled notebook
paper.
• Most any medium is acceptable as long as the art is
relatively flat. Charcoal and pastel drawings should be sprayed with a
fixative. Do not use glitter, sand, liquids or other elements that can
flake off or otherwise damage the works of other students.
• Artwork in the horizontal or landscape position best fits the wall calendar’s format.
• Do not put the name of the month, days of the week or calendar dates into the art itself.
• Submit the original artwork. Judges will not consider photocopies.
• Do not mount, mat or frame artwork.
• Do not fold or crease artwork.
• On the back of each entry, in the lower right hand corner, include: student’s first and last name, age, grade, school, names of parents or guardians, home address and phone number.
Note:
A large group of simultaneous entries from a school or organization
needs only the student’s first and last name, grade and a contact phone
number in the lower right hand corner on the back of each entry.
Teachers, please make sure all information is included and legible, and group submissions are sorted by grade.
• The
name, hometown and school of each winning student will be printed in
the calendar along with the student’s photograph. (Student photos will
be requested after the contest is judged.)
Prizes: First place winners in all grades receive $200.
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Up to nine additional artworks will be chosen from among all grades as
honorable mentions and will be printed in a special section of the
calendar. Honorable mentions earn artists $50.
• An overall “Artist of the Year” also will be selected and receive an additional $100. He or she will be featured in Electric Consumer, Indiana’s electric co-op publication.
• Judges will also select Award of Merit winners who will receive certificates.
• Only first place and honorable mention winners will be notified by phone. Results will be published in a 2010 issue of Electric Consumer, on our Web site and in the 2011 calendar.
Rights and returns: All
artwork and reproduction rights become the property of Electric
Consumer. This means we can print your artwork in the calendar, co-op
publications, Web site and promotional materials and distribute artwork
to the media for promotional purposes. We will respect the integrity of
the artwork and will not allow the outside commercial use of entered
artwork without permission of the artist (and parents/guardians).
• Artwork
selected to appear in the calendar will be returned to the artists
along with complimentary calendars. Selected artwork will not be
available until after the calendar is printed in September 2010.
• All other entries will not be returned unless accompanied with full prepaid postage and proper packaging. We will strive to have all requested returns sent by mid-May of 2010.
Deadline: Artwork must be at the Indianapolis office of the Electric Consumer by 3 p.m., Friday, March 19, 2010.
• Mailing address: P.O. Box 24517, Indianapolis, IN 46224;
• Street address: 720 N. High School Road, Indianapolis, IN 46214.
For more details: Please contact Richard Biever or Emily Schilling at Electric Consumer, 317-487-2220, 800-340-7362, or e-mail us at ec@indremcs.org.
Here’s a downloadable 8.5x11-inch pdf of the 2011 rules.
Here’s a link to thumbnail images of the winners 1999-2010.
Written By: eceditor
Date Posted: 9/30/2009
Number of Views: 1273
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