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May 3rd, 2017
Credit: Lockheed Martin
Got an artistic pallet for the Red Planet? While placing humans on Mars is years off, what does the future hold for people surviving and thriving on that far flung world?
Here’s your chance to match your artistic bent with humankind’s future trajectory to Mars.
SMArt contest
The Mars Society is sponsoring a Student Mars Art (SMArt) Contest, inviting youth from around the world to depict the human future on Mars.
Young artists from grades 4 through 12 are invited to submit up to three works of art each, illustrating any part of our future on the Red Planet.
Mars art will consist of still images, which may be composed by traditional methods, such as pencil, charcoal, watercolors or paint, or by computerized means.
Deadline approaching
Artwork, for example, could spotlight the first landing, human field exploration, operations at an early Mars base, the building of the first Martian cities, terraforming the Red Planet and other related human settlement concepts.
The deadline for submissions: May 31, 2017, 5:00 pm, Mountain Standard Time (MST).
Credit: NASA
Categories
The SMArt Contest will be divided into three categories: Upper Elementary (grades 4-6), Junior High (grades 7-9), and High School (Grades 10-12).
Cash prizes of $1,000, $500 and $250, as well as trophies, will be given out to the first, second and third place winners of each section.
There will also be certificates of honorable mention for those artists who don’t finish in the top three, but whose work is nevertheless judged to be particularly meritorious.
Winning works
The winning works of art will be posted on the Mars Society web site and may also be published as part of a special book about Mars art.
Credit: Mars Society
Winners will also be invited to come to the 20th Annual International Mars Society Convention at the University of California, Irvine September 7-10, 2017 to display and discuss their art.
NOTE: Works of art must be submitted via a special online form:
http://nextgen.marssociety.org/mars-art in either PDF or JPEG format with a 10 MB limit per image.
By submitting art to the contest, participating students grant the Mars Society non-exclusive rights to publish the images on its web site or in Kindle paper book form.
All questions about the Mars Society’s SMArt Contest can be submitted to: Marsart@marssociety.org
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