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William R. Ireland, Sr. Youth Wildlife
Art Contest
(and Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest
Partnership)
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Wildlife Federation partners with the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service's Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge
and the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources to promote the AWF's William R. Ireland Youth Wildlife
Art Contest and the USFWS's Federal Junior Duck Stamp
Contest throughout Alabama.
Be a Youth Art Contest Sponsor!
If you would like to sponsor one of the winner's and help pay for a student's awards,
click here to learn more.
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IRELAND YOUTH
WILDLIFE ART CONTEST
For over twenty years, the Alabama
Wildlife Federation's William R. Ireland Youth Wildlife Art Contest has
recognized the outstanding artistic abilities of Alabama's
students, while increasing students' knowledge and awareness
of wildlife and wildlife habitat in Alabama. The AWF encourages
students to research their subject to learn more about Alabama's
wildlife species and their habitat requirements. To participate
in the AWF's Ireland Youth Wildlife Art Contest, the subject
matter must be a wildlife species indigenous to the state
of ALABAMA.
| Eligibility and Grade Categories |
The AWF William R. Ireland Youth Wildlife Art Contest is open to all public, private and home school students in Alabama. First, second, and third place awards will be given in the following four grade categories: *K-3 *4-6 *7-9 *10-12
Winners will be awarded plaques and art supplies at a luncheon on Saturday, April 26, 2008, at AWF’s Headquarters in Millbrook (just 10 miles north of Montgomery). The winners’ schools will also receive a $50 gift certificate for their art program. All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation for their entries (limited to 25 entries per school).
Sponsor Identification: Each school/sponsor must include a copy of the AWF Youth Wildlife Art Contest Sponsor Entry Form with each packet of artwork entries.
Return Postage: If the school/sponsor wants the artwork returned, each packet of entries must include a prepaid postage container or a check/money order (made out to the AWF) for the postage.
Number of Entries: Each school/sponsor should only submit their top 25 entries; and each student may only enter one piece of artwork.
Entry Identification: Each entry must have the AWF Youth Wildlife Art Contest Student Entry Form attached to the back of the artwork. Artists’ mark, name, and/or signature must not appear on the front of the artwork.
Media: Any flat media can be used including pencil, ink, acrylic, oil, charcoal, pastel, crayon, watercolor, and/or collage.
Size: All entries should be no smaller than 8” x 10” and no larger than 9” x 12”.
Wrapping: Entries must not be framed, mounted or matted. If charcoal or chalk is used, entries must be protected with shrink wrap or wrapped in acetate.
The subject matter MUST be a wildlife species indigenous to the state of Alabama.
Examples include amphibians such as the barking treefrog or spotted salamander, birds such as the bald eagle or eastern wild turkey, insects such as the monarch butterfly or imperial moth caterpillar, mammals such as the eastern cottontail or black bear, reptiles such as the scarlet kingsnake or Ernst’s map turtle, and fish such as the large mouth bass or sunfish.
All entries must be received at AWF’s headquarters (3050 Lanark Road, Millbrook, AL 36054) on or before March 15, 2008.
Winners will be notified by April 4, 2008, and entries may be picked up at the awards luncheon on April 26, 2008. After the awards luncheon, all other artwork will be returned to the school/sponsor if return postage was included, or you may pick up the artwork at AWF’s headquarters.
FEDERAL
JUNIOR DUCK STAMP CONTEST
The Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest design is a term paper in which students use visual rather
than verbal articulation to show what they have learned. Participants
select a species of North American waterfowl, research this
species and its habitat, and then depict the waterfowl in
an artistic medium. Entries for the Junior Duck Stamp Contest are collected
at the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge in Decatur, Alabama.
Deadline is March 15.
For more information about the Federal Junior Duck Stamp
Contest, please contact the USFWS's Wheeler National Wildlife
Refuge at (256) 350-6639.
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