IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
Children’s Mangrove Artwork Needed
For Calendar Art Competition!
Dear Friends,
MAP’s 11th Annual Children’s Mangrove Art Calendar Competition for 2012 is now in progress. We are accepting children’s artwork from around the world that answers the basic question: “What does the mangrove forest mean to my community and me?”
Via this art competition, MAP has been able to stimulate provocative thought as well as creative, colorful artwork that has brought results far beyond our original expectations, producing each year quality calendars with beautiful paintings and drawings, each uniquely representative of the country they come from.
We are in need of your help this year because we may be short of children’s art. Please send artwork our way before our August 15th deadline! THANKS!
A fun and exciting Art Contest for children 7 to 14 years old
We invite all primary school children from tropical and sub-tropical nations, and whose schools are located near mangroves, to create art telling us “why mangroves are important to me and my community”.
Selected winners will be published in our 2012 calendar to be distributed internationally to raise awareness of mangrove forest ecology. This creative contest aims to promote appreciation and awareness of mangrove forests, and to encourage and listen to creative voices of children living in mangrove areas.
Help us launch this program in your school by contacting science and art teachers in your area and encourage them to work together on this fun and innovative project.
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What kind of art can be submitted? Paint, color pencil, ink, collage, pastel, crayons, etc
Dimensions : Canvas, or paper, 45 cms x 30 cms. (18 in. x 12 in.)
The Art Work should be formated as landscape (horizontal) We have received wonderful art work in the past, but it was portrait (vertical) and we are unable to use it.
Artist Identification: On the back of each artwork please write. Full Name, age, school, address, city or town, country, and title of artwork.
Age Limit: from 7-14 years old
Mailing instruction: The Art work have to be mailed in a tube. Make sure is sent in certified or register mail. Please don’ t fold the artwork because it will not reproduce well.
How will entries be judged?
Each school will hold its own exhibition and select 3 winners in art. Winning entries will be collected in each country by a participating NGO and sent to MAP office in USA, where the top entries will selected for the calendar by a panel of judges based on content, aesthetic appeal and uniqueness.
What are the prizes?
1st Prize will receive a certificate of award, plus 2 calendars and the recognition of being published in a International calendar with global distribution.
2nd Prize receives a certificate of award and a calendar
3rd Prize receives a certificate of award and a calendar
School will receive 5 Calendars
NGOs will receive 6 Calendars
When is the deadline?
Please, we must receive the art work in MAP’s office by August 15, 2011
Where do we send artwork?
Mailed to : 4872 Deer Park Road
Port Angeles, WA 98362-0279 USA
Port Angeles, WA 98362-0279 USA
Please mail in a tube.
Who do I contact?
Please let us know if your school plans to participate by contacting:
Monica Gutierrez-Quarto,
Calendar Project Coordinator
Mangrove Action Project
PO Box 1854
Port Angeles, WA 98362-0279, USA
tel./ fax (360) 452-5866
e-mail: monicaquarto@olympus.ne
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Some suggested Field Trip and Classroom Lessons
It is suggested that this contest could coincide with an Associated Mangrove Ecology Educational Project with the children. This lesson will highlight the importance of mangrove forests for the environment, for their community, for fishermen and/or for the associated mangrove forest fauna. The intent of this educational project is to help the participating children better comprehend the important role mangroves play in their
lives and for their communities.
1.- Information and guidance in the classroom, aided by text books, mangrove curriculum, slides and videos.
2.- Eco-Study Field trips for firsthand observation with the teacher and/or a local resource person, where they can observe the myriad forms of life that inhabit the mangroves, such as the many colored birds, fish, crabs, mollusks, reptiles, mammals, and insects, while also learning about the unique characteristics of the associated mangrove plants and trees.
3.- As a result of this research, the children may wish to create art work for the 2012 calendar art competition.
For the Mangroves
and Mangrove Communities,
Monica Gutierrez-Quarto
Art Director
Mangrove Action Project
Art Director
Mangrove Action Project