The 6th Annual Reusable Art Contest is Underway!
Are you a K-12 student in Larimer County? Are you creative and do you want a chance to win some great prizes? If so, then enter our student "Reusable Art" contest, where kids make art from trash. But hurry; the deadline for entries is April 4, 2008.
See our flyer [pdf] with all the information about the contest, or read the rules below.
Rules
- Contest open to all K-12 students in Larimer County.
- Artwork can be of any kind, but must be made with trash or scrap materials (old cans, used paper, scrap metal, etc.)
- Artwork may be designed to hang on the wall, hang from the ceiling, or stand freely.
- If free-standing, it should not be more than 18 inches wide or deep.
- Judges will choose up to 12 finalists by April 14.
- On April 19, finalists’ artwork will be displayed at the open house at the Garbage Garage, Larimer County’s waste and recycling education center (located at the landfill).
- Visitors to the open house will vote for three grand prize winners; in case of a tie, judges will make the final decision.
- Prizes: Finalists will receive a package of “recycling goodies;” each grand prize winner will also receive $50 and have their artwork displayed at the Garbage Garage for one year.
- Winners agree to the use of their name on Larimer County’s Web site, in press releases, and in other means of public display.
Participating teachers or individual students: Call 498-5772 by April 4 to make arrangements to have your artwork judged. We will send judges to particapting classrooms, but individual entries (not part of a class) should be dropped off at the Larimer County Solid Waste Department's administrative office at the landfill, 5887 S. Taft Hill Road, Fort Collins. The office is located just south of the recycling bins. See map.[PDF] The office is open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Questions? Call 498-5772.