1. Read the Contest guidelines
2. Create your art
3. Enter Contest
4. Submit your artwork online by 5pm on April 11, 2024 (Take a good quality photo of your physical artwork and upload it)

Contest prizes:

There will be prizes for overall TK-12 winners: overall 1st place winner will receive a $100 gift card and dinner at Jalisco’s on April 18th for student and parents/guardians. Plus overall winner’s teacher will get a $50 Amazon gift card. 2nd place will receive a $50 gift card. Each winner in a grade band and art category will get a ribbon. All winners will receive ribbons. Artwork will be displayed online at PVEF website and social media.

For students / teachers brainstorming ideas for theme:

• How do you see yourself in ten years from now?
• What will your best life be like ten years from now?
• What will you be doing?
• Where will you be living?
• What colors do you see around you?
• Who is with you?
• What does the future make you think about?
• Will you be in college?
• What career will you be doing?

Contest Guidelines

Our contest is open to Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD) Kindergarten through 12 grade students. (Immediate family members of Pajaro Valley Education Foundation (PVEF) are not eligible.

These are the following categories you can participate in K-1, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12. Entries must have the theme “My Life in Ten Years.” (see details for the theme below).

Artwork must be a student’s original artwork – Artists, when sharing their artwork, need to write an Artist Statement (a short paragraph explaining what inspired them). If they need help, a teacher, parent, or someone else can assist in writing or translating this. Please note this if this is the case. It’s not allowed to copy or change pictures made by someone else for the competition. If students use someone else’s picture, their artwork must look quite different otherwise it won’t be accepted. Finally, the artwork should be made only by the student without any help from others.
Size – Original artwork must not exceed 8 x 10 inches in size. Acceptable art media are: digital art, paint, pencil, markers, ink, crayon, chalk or pastel (fixed), stop motion, and collages.
Students must upload their digital artwork or a photo of their physical art by 5:00 pm Pacific Daylight time. Students may enter various pieces as long as they complete a separate entry form for each one. Approval by parents of guardians is required. Winners will be notified on April 15, 2024 to the email address given on the entry form.
If your physical artwork wins or gets an honorable mention in a grade or category, students will need to turn in the original artwork to their school office. Artwork will be kept by the Pajaro Valley Education Foundation for a year and will be displayed in various spaces throughout Santa Cruz County.
For art entries not created digitally:

Take a photo of the artwork on a flat surface,
Zoom in so that only the artwork is in the frame
Make sure you have good lighting (watch out for shadows from your camera)
Or you can scan your artwork at 300dpi
Please use the online entry form below. If you are experiencing difficulty uploading your artwork to the website please email a PNG or JPEG image of your artwork to information@pvef.net by the deadline.

If you are under 18 please have your parent or guardian help you complete the form. You will need the following information for the form:

• Name, age and grade
  School
• Parent or guardian’s name
• Best email or phone number to contact
• Parent or student if they have an email
• Title for your artwork
• Artist’s Statement
• Medium you are using the for the art
• Measurements for the artwork – maximum is 8×10

Parent or guardian must digitally sign entry form

For teachers:

This contest addresses the SEL Competency of Self-Awareness – the ability to set personal goals.