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Seasonal Card Contest
All Thames Valley students are encouraged to get out their favourite art supplies to create an original work of art for the cover of a seasonal greeting card.
Design our Official Seasonal Greeting Card!
All Thames Valley students are encouraged to get out their favourite art supplies to create an original work of art for the cover of a seasonal greeting card.About 250 cards, featuring one of four unique covers, will be sent to members of the community from Education Director Bill Tucker and Board of Trustees Chair Joyce Bennett. In addition, the artwork will be featured on the TVDSB website.
The four card designs will feature the work of one student in each of these grade categories:
- Developmental Education
- Primary (JK – Grade 3)
- Junior (Grades 4-6)
- Intermediate (Grades 7-8)
- and Secondary (Grades 9-12)
The contest is open until October 26 and the winners will be announced early November. Students may submit their artwork to a teacher who will forward it to the committee that will judge the entries. All entries will be displayed in the Education Centre in November.
All submissions must be the original artwork of the registrant, follow a winter theme and can be created using various media, such as photography, paint, crayon, collage and pastel or computer generated graphics.
Criteria for Artwork
How to Submit your ArtworkAll submissions must be the original artwork of the registrant; no copywright images and/or subjects
Greeting card to be a winter theme
Acceptable entry media include photography, computer graphics, paint, crayon, collage, pencil, pastel, and mixed media
If a finalist featured people in a photograph, a permission form MUST be signed by the guardian of the subject, prior to card creation.
Final Card size will be 5" x 7"Size of artwork to be proportional (same shape or close)Larger artwork is preferred, and will be reduced to fit.Horizontal or vertical format acceptable
Each entry must be labeled with student’s name, teacher’s name, student’s grade, and school name. Labels are provided below (Related Files) in .pdf format
Please roll or package the artwork carefully and ensure the information label is affixed to the art. Artwork may be submitted via the Board courier, or delivered to the Ed Centre by the deadline of October 26. Your teacher or office staff can help.
Send by Board courier to:
Helen CokerLearning Coordinator: The Arts, K-12TVDSB, Program Services1250 Dundas St., LondonRe: Greeting Card Contest
Schools, classes or groups of students may send submissions packaged together, but please ensure the individual pieces of art are labeled separately by each artist.
Artwork such as photography or computer generated art may be submitted by email with the label information included. Email Helen Coker at: h.coker@tvdsb.on.ca
Please feel free to print and display this printable PDF poster to help promote this contest. Poster design is full-colour, 11x17 inches, and may be scaled to suit your available printer or copier.
Please print, complete, and attached these labels to each piece of student art submitted.
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