Animal Action Art Competition

Winning and honorable mention entries will receive a certificate and IFAW gift bag. A selection of winners will be used in next year's Animal Action Week poster.

Contest Rules 
Every year, IFAW asks young people like you to help us produce our IFAW Animal Action Week Poster. We're looking for colorful original artwork of one or more of the animals IFAW helps protect around the world.

IFAW works with a variety of animals, including elephants, seals, bears, whales, sea turtles, penguins, tigers, rhinos, porpoises, cats and dogs. You can find out more about the animals IFAW helps save by visiting our web site at www.ifaw.org, and clicking on the link, "Save Animals."

Artwork submitted to the contest should be in color and contained within a standard 8.5x11-inch sheet of paper. All designs must be original and created by hand using markers, crayons, colored pencils, or paint – photographs, photocopies, tracing and computer-generated designs will not be accepted. A fully-completed and signed contest entry form must be securely taped (no staples please!) to each artwork submission. One entry per student.

All submissions become the property of IFAW. They may be scanned for inclusion in the IFAW Image Library and used for IFAW cause-related marketing purposes. The closing date for the competition is December 31, 2008.

Eligibility
Contest is open to all U.S. residents aged 18 and under.

Judging Criteria, Prizes and Notification
12 selected entries that have been received by December 31, 2008 will be chosen for inclusion in the 2009 Animal Action Week Poster, which is distributed to some 80,000 classrooms across the United States. The Animal Action Week Art Contest Winners and other Honorable Mention Winners will receive a certificate and IFAW goody bag containing IFAW gear, toys and other surprises. Eligible entries will be judged on creativity and originality of presentation and adherence to contest rules. The entries chosen for inclusion on the Poster will represent a range of ages, regions, and animals. All winning entries will be notified and the artwork posted on animalactionweek.org by May 31, 2009.

Deadlines
Entries must be postmarked by December 31, 2008.

Send entries with fully completed entry forms to:
AAW Art Contest
IFAW World Headquarters
290 Summer Street
Yarmouth Port, MA  02675
USA