Young At Art 2022: Information

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Dates: 
Saturday, February 12, 2022 - 12:00am to Saturday, February 19, 2022 - 11:30pm

The 34th Annual Young At Art Juried Exhibition 2022

Place: Spaces That Shape Us

Sponsored by EHCC and the Hawai‘i District Department of Education 

The Young at Art annual juried exhibition celebrates National Youth Art Month by recognizing the excellence, creativity and originality of K-12 students on the Big Island in all public, charter, and private schools, as well as home-schooled students.

Please note that the exhibit will be centered around a theme, and all submissions will be made online, with physical submissions of only the accepted art works. 

The theme of the 2022 Young at Art Exhibit is: Place: Spaces That Shape Us. This year’s theme asks students to reflect on significant settings that have impacted them in important ways. The theme seeks to examine identity and how it is informed by the spaces around us. We ask students to create from these places, physically or metaphorically, and look at the roles that these spaces have played in shaping who they are today. We encourage students to explore emotional connections to certain locations, positive or negative, big, small, real, imaginary… 

Email [email protected] now to register!

Entry submission period OPENS: Friday, October 1, 2021

Entry submission period CLOSES: Saturday, February 19, 2022

Exhibit on view: Saturday, March 5, 2022–Friday, March 25, 2022


Young at Art Virtual Juried Exhibit 2022

PREPARATION, REQUIREMENTS AND SUBMISSION:  Please note changes

Step 1: Complete the Young At Art Teacher Information Form (REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED). You will then be given access to a Google Drive folder to complete the submission process.

Step 2: Work with your students on creating art works in compliance with the following rules of entry:

  1. Submitted works must be original works by the student(s). Group works are permissible.

  2. Maximum of 2 entries per student.

  3. Pieces may be any medium, two-dimensional  (drawings, paintings, flat collages, weavings, photographs, etc.) or three- dimensional  (ceramics, sculptures, jewelry, dioramas, etc.)

  4. Mount/mat with white or neutral heavy weight paper or mats. Do not frame in wood, metal, plastic or glass unless it is a vital part of the display, such as many pieces displayed together.

  5. Each submission should be accompanied by a short artist’s statement (up to 250 words) describing the work’s embodiment of the exhibit theme, “Place: Spaces That Shape Us”​

 

Step 3: Photograph the entries.

  1. Photography guidelines: 

    1. Photos should be square dimensions

    2. Resolution of at least 72 DPI

    3. No backlight or shadows

    4. White tone of light, if possible

    5. Crop for minimal background

  2. For 3D pieces, multiple angles may be submitted. 

  3. Photo file names should include:

    1. Studentʻs name

    2. Grade

    3. Title of work

    4. Medium​

 

Step 4: Submit the entries via the Google Drive folder provided to you

  1. Create a folder for each submission, and include all photos and the artist's statement.

  2. We suggest submitting photos ahead of time if you are unsure if the quality is acceptable. Retakes will be allowed as time permits. If photos are unusable, the entry will be disqualified.

 

Step 5: Complete the Young At Art Entry Sheet in your Google Drive folder. 

  1. Please encourage students to name their artwork. More than one untitled work from the same student should be numbered (Untitled 1, 2, etc.).

 

Step 6: Email [email protected] when all steps have been completed so that the entries can be reviewed. All steps must be completed by Saturday, February 19 at 11:59pm. 

 
 
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