Hawai’i Art Contest 2012

deadline 18 may 2012, Hawai´i

Contest launch: 9 feb 2012
Open to: all students in Hawai´i
Sponsored: by the UN Safe Planet Campaign
Awards presented: June 15, 2012

Replace a single-use plastic item in your house with a sustainable eco-friendly design. Show us the plastic object and what you propose as an alternative. The new design should be of a material that is organic or non-polluting to the world’s oceans. Designs can be hand drawn or computerized images in 8 x 10 format.

See more information on our website at www.artmil.eu and look at our “Flagship” themes, as well as “contests”. Ask your teacher for details.

Prizes

5 winners will have their designs made into prototypes by local manufacturers and the image printed on new Safe Planet sustainable bags; get to tour the sailing ship Sea Dragon when she pulls into port in Honolulu, July, 2012; spend a week at Art Mill in the Czech Republic for one winner (does not include airfare); exhibit with the Safe Planet exhibition during the Rio+20 Global Conference in June, 2012.

For more information contact Barbara Benish.

The Hawai´i Art Contest is organized through the support of Friends of Safe Planet- affiliated organizations ArtMill (Art Dialogue, Czech Republic and USA), and Ethical Profiling Ltd. (British Columbia, Canada). Friends of Safe Planet serve as volunteer advisors to Safe Planet: the United Nations Campaign for Responsibility on Hazardous Chemicals and Wastes. The United Nations Environment Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Secretariats of the Basel, Rotterdam or Stockholm Conventions and their Parties do not respectively represent, endorse or guarantee the Vancouver Art Contest. Neither the United Nations nor its affiliates, nor any of their respective agents, employees, information providers or content providers, shall be liable to any user or anyone else for any error or omission in the conduct of the Vancouver Art Contest, which is the sole responsibility of the organizers.