NAEA – National Art Honor Society and National Junior Art Honor Society
MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS – STUDENT EXPRESSION CONTEST
🌱🎨 THE YOUNG VOICES OF NATURE: ENVIRONMENTAL ART CONTEST
Submit your art, share your environmental story, & let your voice be seen. 🌱✨
The deadline for ALL submission is May 15, 2026. Submission form here.
PARTICIPATE IN THE 6TH ANNUAL ENDANGERED SPECIES CHALK ART EVENT!
Endangered Species Day, which falls this year on Friday, May 15, is an opportunity for people of all ages to celebrate and learn about endangered species and how to protect them. Endangered Species Day activities are a chance for students to explore concepts related to biology, ecology, and the natural environment as part of a fun, international celebration!
To enter the contest, please take a photo of your chalk art and upload on the website between 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday, May 1, and 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday, May 17.
There are lots of teacher resources for participating in the chalk art event and celebrating endangered species day. Check them out here.
Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Contest
This year’s theme for our award-winning Ocean Awareness Contest is Your Story, Our Ocean: How Our Ocean Sustains, Protects, and Inspires Us, where we encourage young people to explore the natural world and their place in it through the lenses of generational knowledge, human health, urban environments, resiliency, and more.
Quick Contest Details:
- Free to enter
- Open to students worldwide, ages 11-18
- Submissions accepted in visual art, creative writing, poetry, spoken word, film, music, dance, and multimedia
- Up to $1,000 in cash awards available, including the We All Rise Prize for students in the U.S. who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or Latine
- Student work becomes part of a global collection that is inspiring the protection of our oceans
- Submission Deadline June 8, 2026
More information at bowseat.org/contest
Art Contest: Stronger Together: Art for Democracy
Stronger Together: Art for Democracy
Artists of all ages are invited to enter the Stronger Together: Art for Democracy competition, with cash prizes. Two-dimensional art will be accepted until April 10, 2026, with no entry fee. This is a juried competition. The jury will be made up of art professionals and community members.
Theme and Goals:
Art is a powerful tool for social change. Unbound by age, culture or social location, it sparks the imagination and promotes meaningful dialogue. With the
goal of encouraging civic engagement, artists across New England are invited to submit works on the theme of protecting and strengthening American democracy. Artworks should express the goals of promoting unity and the common good, which underscores the American ideals that all voices are important and that our strength lies in welcoming diverse perspectives. Our goal is to spur productive dialogue; showcase the work of New England artists; and celebrate democracy.
Deadline: April 10, 2026 Learn more and submit work here.
COLLABORATING FOR BIODIVERSITY – YOUTH ART OPPORTUNITY
Collaborating for Biodiversity is a K-12 youth art project celebrating species protected by the Endangered Species Act. You are invited to submit artworks created in collaboration with two or more youth artists. We’ve created Collaborating for Biodiversity in honor of the 20th Anniversary of Endangered Species Day, Friday, May 16th, 2025.
Submission Deadline April 23, 2025
Annual Art Competition on Extreme Weather
The 2024-2025 Challenge Questions are:
1) What will your community look like when we are not using fossil fuels for energy in 20-30 years?
2) What jobs will be needed to adapt to more extreme weather?
3) How can plants and animals adapt to a warmer ocean?