Design Wild, Wearable Art For a $100 Prize!

Calling all artists! Use paints or pencils, crayons or collage to create animal-inspired original art for our official, 2010 t-shirt design contest. The winner will receive $100 and the limited edition t-shirt featuring their design! Last year's winning art (seen this photo of the finished shirt) was submitted by A Bay Middle School student, but artists of any age can enter.
Contest rules and guidelines:

• must include 3 or more of the Center’s resident animals
• must be colorful, fun and kid-friendl
• cannot be larger than 8” x 10”
• should be completed on plain, white paper (NO t-shirt outlines)
• official Center logo and name will be added to the t-shirts during production. Please do NOT use Center name, logo (or the “LENSC” acronym) in your design.

Download a printable PDF entry form with complete contest guidelines. Entry deadline: February 28. Artwork will not be returned.

Finalists will be on display by mid March in our lobby, online in the Kids Corner Nature Art Gallery and on Lake Erie Nature & Science Center’s Facebook Fan Page. To vote for the winner, stop in to fill out a paper ballot or click “like” under your favorite(s) once we post finalists in a Photo Album on Facebook. The winner will be notified by March 31.

T-shirt go on sale at our annual Family Fun Fest, Sunday June 6.