Calling Young Idaho Artists

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Do you have a budding artist in your home? If you do, they may want to enter the “Picture My Future” art contest! Idaho students in grades 7-12 are eligible to enter, but the deadline of January 10th is quickly approaching. If you mail in your submission it must be stamped by January 7th.

Winning artwork will be posted on the SDE website and shared with Idaho legislators during Superintendent Ybarra’s budget presentation to the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee!

Official Contest rules include:

• Entrants must be Idaho public school students, grades 7-12.

• Artwork should visualize the student’s dreams for his or her future after high school.

• Artwork should not include copyrighted images.

• Entries should be submitted in an 8.5” x 11” portrait format.

• Artwork must be labeled with the student’s name and grade, teacher’s name and the district and school that the student attends.

• Students may use any medium or combination of mediums they choose (paint, pencil, digital, etc.).

• Students must be advised that entry into this contest waives all copyrights of their entries and gives the State Department of Education permission to republish the art without compensation.

• Artwork will not be returned.

• Mailed entries must be postmarked by Friday, Jan. 7, and mailed to: Idaho State Department of Education Attn: Taylor Baggerly, P.O. Box 83720, Boise, ID 83720-0027

• Electronic entries may be submitted by midnight Monday, Jan. 10 as Adobe PDF documents (produced using the “High Quality Print” setting) using the form on the SDE website’s Picture My Future page.