2024 Greater Atlantic Region's Marine Endangered Species Art Contest
Celebrate Endangered Species Day (May 17) by having your classroom or individual students participate in our Endangered Species Art Contest.
About
Endangered Species Act:
Endangered Species Day (the third Friday in May) is an annual day of celebration to learn about endangered and threatened species and what we can all do to help them. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is the federal law that protects these vulnerable populations. Through conservation and recovery programs, we work to rebuild the populations to healthy levels.
Please send entries as images or pdf files to: nmfs.gar.es-art-contest@noaa.gov.
Endangered Species Day
Celebrate Endangered Species Day (May 17) by having your classroom or individual students participate in our Marine Endangered Species Art Contest. Endangered and threatened species need our help. Students’ artwork will showcase their knowledge and commitment to protecting these animals. While we are located in New England and the mid-Atlantic United States, we invite participants from anywhere in the world to submit entries!
Artwork
Artwork should highlight one or more marine endangered or threatened species from the New England/Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Text highlighting why you chose this species and what people can do to protect them may also be included. Potential themes may vary by age. Some ideas include animals in their natural habitat, sharing the shore and sea, threats to the species, or how we can help them recover.
Find more information on each species
Divisions
| Grades | Individual | Collaborative |
|---|---|---|
| Grades Pre-K - 2: | sculpture and 2-D | sculpture and 2-D |
| Grades 3 - 5: | sculpture and 2-D | sculpture and 2-D |
| Grades 6 - 8: | sculpture and 2-D | sculpture and 2-D |
| Grades 9 - 12: | sculpture and 2-D | sculpture and 2-D |
Entry Requirements
- In addition to school entries, home school, and individual entries are welcome. Within each division, art work will be judged in two categories: individual and collaborative. Individual entries should be one entry per student. Collaborative art works include those created by 2 or more individuals.
- Artwork may be in the form of a painting, drawing, or sculpture (clay, recycled trash, etc.). Painting/drawing may be multi-color, black and white, or a single color; it may be completed in ink, paint, pastel, crayon, or pencil.
- Image must be of a native marine endangered or threatened species in the New England/Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Entries depicting other species will be disqualified from the contest.
Learn more about endangered and threatened species in the New England/Mid-Atlantic region
- Artistic liberties may be taken as long as the depiction is a recognizable species. Techniques may include but are not limited to scratch-board, airbrush, linoleum printing, paper collage, dry brush, crosshatch, and/or pointillism. No photography, light sketching, or computer-generated art. Computers or other mechanical devices may not be used in creating artwork for this contest.
- Design entries must be entrant’s original, hand-drawn creation and may not be traced or copied from published photographs or other artists’ works. Entrants may rely on photographs or published images as guides. However, especially when references are used for the subject(s), the entry must be the entrant’s own creation and idea.
- Entries should NOT include any brand names (i.e., shopping bags that say “Market Basket” on them). Because we recommend viewing endangered species from afar so that they won’t be disturbed, we kindly ask that NO human swimmers, snorkelers, or scuba divers be drawn in the artwork.
Entry Submission
We are accepting emailed entries via email. Each emailed entry must include the name of the student/class/group, contact information (if individual entry), teacher, school, state, grade, medium type, title of the artwork and number of students (if collaborative entry). The entries can be attached to the email in the form of a picture or scan of the artwork.
Entries must be emailed by Monday, April 22, 2024. They should be emailed to
nmfs.gar.es-art-contest@noaa.gov.
Prizes
Winning entries will be displayed in a slideshow on our Facebook page. Students whose artwork is chosen as a Winner or Honorable Mention will receive an electronic certificate through email. Winners from this year’s contest will receive a prize.
In addition, the winning and honorable mention entries will be featured in a 2024–2025 electronic calendar (available upon request).
Ownership
Submissions become property of the NOAA Fisheries. Through submission of artwork, entrants and their legal guardians grant non-exclusive reproduction and publication rights to the works.
Contact Us
Questions? Contact us at nmfs.gar.es-art-contest@noaa.gov.