OPTIMIST IN ACTION CONTEST

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Topic: Bringing Out the Best

This exciting competition is designed to encourage and celebrate youth visual art skills and gives the youth we serve another outlet for their creativity!

Atlantic Central District Deadline: January 31, 2025

Submit Club Winner(s) with Club Level Entryy Form and picture of artwork/scan of artwork.

Please retain the original artwork to send to Optimist International.

Submit each entry to Co-Chair Cynnie Monroe via ACD0ptimists@gmail.com 

or text to 215-206-7854

1. Submit a copy of the Optimist Visual Arts Contest (ClubLevelEntryForm )foreach artwork. Each Club may submit up to two (2) artworks per age division.

2.Submit a picture/scan of the artwork. Please retain the original artwork to send to Optimist International

Entry Fee:

Each Club can submit up to two (2) artworks per age division.

There are two age divisions: up to 7 years of age and 8-11 years of age. Artist must be age eleven or lower as of October 1, 2024.

There is a $5.00 entryfee per artwork entry submitted. *Fee can be submitted to the Atlantic Central District

0 ZELLE to webmaster@optimist-ac.org
0 PayPal to Atlantic Central District Optimist International

District Competition:

Voting takes place at the Second Quarter Meeting on February 22, 2025.

It is planned that the District Competition will award cash prizes of $100, $75, and $50 for the age division winners.

District Co-Chairs Contact Information

Cynnie Monroe, Co-Chair and Lue Drummond, Co-Chair

ACD0ptimists@gmail.com Text messages to 215-206-7854 Atlantic Central District Optimist International, our mission is to provide volunteer opportunities for individuals and groups to give back to their communities and make a positive impact.

Optimist International Presents:   

THE OPTIMIST VISUAL ARTS COMPETITION!

Guidelines

1. The contest will be held at the Club level and International level. The topic this year is Bringing Out the Best.
2. Club level judging may be by Club Members, professional artists/ instructors, or by public voting.
3. The project for the Visual Arts Competition shall be the creation of a set of twelve note cards and envelopes.
4. Artist must be age eleven or lower as of October 1, 2024.
   There are two age divisions: up to 7 years of age and 8-11 years of age. Art for six notecards will be selected from each age division.
5. Clubs may provide awards to participants and winners at the local level.
6. Artwork must be created on 11" wide x 8.5" high paper
   or construction paper.
7. Actual, physical artwork of the Club winner(s) must be submitted to OI no later than March 1, 2025. Do not fold the artwork, and be sure to protect the artwork by placing it between two pieces of thin cardboard before placing it inside of a large envelope. Mark the outside of the envelope with the words, "DO NOT BEND".
   Send to Optimist International, c/o Marketing, 4494 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108
8. Voting will be done March 15-30, 2025.
9. There will be a monetary award for 13 OI winners, one for the image
   selected to go on the cover and one image selected for each notecard.

         10. At the International level, the 12            winners will receive a $150 monetary award; the winner of the cover will receive an additional $100 monetary award.

         11. The notecards will be available for sale as early as June 30, 2025 at the international convention in St. Louis, MO, Jun 30-July 3, 2025.

Head to optimist.org for entry form