Provided by NOVEC
Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC) invites students in kindergarten through fifth grade to enter their art in Cooperative Living magazine’s 18th annual Youth Art Contest. Entries are due May 4. Art should reflect the “Trip to the Zoo” theme.
Artwork should be configured vertically (portrait-style) on an 8 ½-by-11-inch sheet of white paper. Art can be in color or black and white. It can be in any medium, including crayon, pen, acrylics, charcoal and pencil. No tracing or “party pictures” done by a group are permitted. The child’s full name, age, grade, school, mailing address, and parent or guardian’s daytime phone number and email address should be printed clearly on the back of each entry.
Artwork can be emailed using instructions at co-opliving.com/contests/youth-art. Hard copy entries should be mailed unfolded to Youth Art Contest, c/o Cooperative Living magazine, P.O. Box 2340, Glen Allen, VA 23058-2340. Original entries will not be returned.
Judges at the Virginia, Maryland and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives (VMDAEC), which publishes Cooperative Living magazine, will select first-, second- and third-place winners in each grade. First-place winners in each category will receive $25 cash prizes. The “Best in Show” artist will win $100.
VMDAEC will publish winning entries in the July Cooperative Living. The magazine is distributed to more than 578,000 homes and businesses in Virginia and Maryland.
Richard G. Johnstone, Jr. is Executive Editor of Cooperative Living. He said, “We started the Youth Art Contest to encourage youthful creativity and give children a chance to show their art to the magazine’s 1.3 million readers. Each year, our judges are impressed with both the quality and creativity of the students’ work.”
