Content Requirements

• Accepted mediums for the two-dimensional artwork are as follows:

• Paintings: oil, acrylics, watercolor, etc.

• Drawings: colored pencil, pencil, ink, marker, pastels, charcoal.

• Collages

• Mixed Media: use of more than two mediums.

• Sculptures 

• Photography 

• Each entry must be original in concept, design, and execution and may not violate U.S. copyright laws. Any entry that has been copied from an existing photo or image (including a painting, graphic, or advertisement) that was created by someone other than the student is a violation of the competition rules and will not be accepted.

• Original digital artwork is allowed, but must be the sole and full creation of the participant.  Artwork created with AI or digital image generation will not be accepted" (although I'm not sure where that leaves you with genuine photo editing tools like Photoshop, etc.).

• Artwork should be submitted as a high resolution image of the student’s original artwork.

• Each file must be under 5 Megabytes in size. More than one photo of art is acceptable. 

• Artwork must be submitted in .jpg, .pdf or .png format.

• Submissions must not contain obscenity, nudity, profanity, graphic violence, calls or incitement to violence, commercial solicitation or commercial promotion. Submissions must conform to local law and must not contain content or images that could be considered abusive, inflammatory, denigrating, or disrespectful to any groups, individuals or institutions. Submissions must adhere both in appearance and in fact to the norms of civil discourse. In other words, the content of all submissions must be suitable for a public audience.

• LTEF reserves the right to disqualify, at their sole and absolute discretion, any submission that does not adhere to these criteria and to the intent and substance of these Official Contest Rules.

Eligibility

• Contest is open to all ages but you must be tied to Lawrence in ONE of the following ways: living in, working in, attending school/college, having attended school/college or currently receiving talent training in town.