Competition Details

Prize: $1,000 First Prize, $500 Second Prize, and three additional prizes of $200

(OR Digital & AI Generated Art: First Prize $100, Second Prize $50, three $25 additional prizes)

Competition Details: Read Carefully Before Submitting!

TERMS AND CONDITITONS

Judging:

Submissions must be complete by April 28^th, 2024. Winning submissions will be posted on the website by May 12^th, 2024. Prizes will be awarded by check through mail.
Judging results by the jury are final and not subject to review, including review by a court. Contestants agree to decisions made by the jury selected by the nonprofit. Contestants release the nonprofit and the jury from any claims and liability.

Art Entry Requirements:

Competition Theme: Must be closely aligned to the stated ‘Competition Theme’ and capture the essence of the competition
Talent and Perfection are Secondary: Content/Ideas/ Capturing the Competition Theme is Primary
Realistic rather than abstract: Competition welcomes symbolism and creativity, but is intended to be realistic rather than abstract in nature. Painting/drawing/photography/30 second short videography, medium combinations, etc. are all welcome. Digital artwork and AI generated artwork is also welcome but will be judged separately and for different levels of prizes.
Original: Each piece must fully be an original.
Digital Copy: Submission is accomplished by uploading a high quality digital copy of sufficient quality to reproduce a 12” x 16” print (whether video or images). Do not submit images of your artwork which contain watermarks.
Original Copy: Artwork originals must be given upon request to the competition host prior to the winnings being distributed. Shipping cost will be reimbursed.
Art Gallery: Artwork may be posted on this website once the competition judging is finished. Student First Name & School & Description may be displayed in the gallery along with the artwork.
Description: Please provide a short description (around 3 sentences) of the art work.
Other Conditions: Artists less than 18 years old must include a parental (or guardian) consent at time of submission. Must be a US resident and in high school (or equivalent).
Copyright: For non-AI generated artwork you agree to release the work to the Public Domain subject to Creative Commons CC0 as described below. For AI generated artwork you sign that Mission Sharing has permission to reproduce, distribute, sell, or promote images of the artwork or derivative images.

By entering this art competition the artist waives all copyright and related or neighboring rights together with all associated claims and causes of action with respect to this work to the extent possible under the law. The Creative Commons Terms and License can be found by clicking Creative Commons Terms and License (CC0 No Rights Reserved).

Creative Commons Copyright Summary:

By entering this art competition, you are granting the public a non-exclusive perpetual and unrestricted publicly available license to reproduce, distribute, sell, or promote images of your artwork or derivative images. You are also granting permission to modify in any way the artwork including contracting others to modify the artwork. This is meant to be a summary of the terms but the Creative Commons license CCO is the actual agreement. Example usages of Creative Commons images are below.

Note: the above image requires NO caption describing who created it, no permission was required to post this, and no attribution was required. It is licensed through CC0 and was found on a website that aggregates these types of CC0 images. CC0 is the most permissive creative commons license.

Note: The above image is a derivative image which uses two CC0 Images which were modified. This is entirely permissible under CC0 and could even be sold by anyone in the public without attribution.