2011-12 Scholastic Art Awards Guidelines
Region Code: NE001A
Regional Affiliate: Omaha Public Schools Art Department
Affiliate Supported by: Omaha Public Schools
Regional Affiliate Area of Service: Entire state of Nebraska
Online Registration:
Participants and teachers must register at www.artandwriting.org.
Please print 2 copies of the completed submission form and obtain required signatures. If any changes are made after forms are printed, please check to see the bar code number is consistent with final entry information. Keep one copy of the form to submit with the original work if it received a key or honorable mention award. Send one copy with payment or waiver to OPS.
Regional Instructions/Announcements:
All submissions for the Scholastic Art Awards of Nebraska must be submitted using the online registration system. Registration opens September 15.
All entries will be submitted digitally via the website www.artandwriting.org on or before January 12.
ONLY chosen work will be sent to Omaha Public Schools TAC Building.
Print TWO submission forms per artwork and obtain the required signatures.
Send one copy with processing fees to OPS, postmarked on or before January 12 and save the other form to be sent in on the back of the selected artwork.
Judging will take place January 23–31.
Submission Deadline: January 12 – No extensions will be given beyond this date.
Processing Fee:
The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the national nonprofit organization that presents The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, requires standardized processing fees of $5.00 for each individual category submission and $20.00 for each portfolio submission. Make checks and money orders payable to Scholastic Art Awards of Nebraska
All processing fees, waiver letters and one copy of each submission form to:
Scholastic Art Awards of Nebraska
OPS Art Department
3215 Cuming St.
Omaha, NE 68131
Fee Waiver: Any student who currently qualifies under the Federal School Lunch Act for the Free and Reduced Lunch program may request a submission fee waiver. Reduced fees are also available to students for whom fees would be a barrier to participation. A request from the student or teacher for the submission fee waiver should be submitted to the contact listed below.
After the judging process, teachers and students with works selected will be notified via email as soon as possible after February 4.
Regional Celebration
Ceremony: February 25 – Scholastic Art Awards of Nebraska Ceremony:
OPS TAC
3215 Cuming St.
Omaha, NE 68131
7th–10th grade at 11:00 A.M.
11th and 12th grade at 1:00 P.M.
(Snow Date: March 10 same ceremony times as above.)
Exhibition: ALL SCHOLASTIC AWARDS (Gold key, Silver key and Honorable mention) will be on exhibit February 22–March 14 and honored during the ceremony.
OPS TAC
3215 Cuming St.
Omaha, NE 68131
Contact Information
Phone: 402-557-2406
Email: Angela.Fischer@ops.org
NEBRASKA SCHOLASTIC SCORING RUBRIC - Judges will review each submission for three criteria:
Originality – look for works that reveal an original approach to process, conception and subject matter.
Technical Proficiency – look for technical proficiency as required to successfully complete a work in a particular medium. In addition, look for inventive application of techniques and be sensitive to works which demonstrate the artist’s willingness to take risks and to experiment with materials, form and content.
Expression – look for the emergence of a personal vision or style and the visual expression of feeling and conception. Also look for works which take classroom assignments to another level of execution.
Originality in Process, Conception, and Subject Matter
- Highly original, creative, unique, complex
- Reasonably original and creative, medium complexity
- Adequate for age level, but not outstanding in originality or complexity
- Unoriginal, tendency toward cliché
- Cliché, stereotypical
Technical Proficiency
Utilization of materials is clean, technically advanced, and exceptional evidence of experimentation with medium and willingness to be inventive and to take risks
4 Execution is competent, proficient, some experimentation evident
3 Minor problems are evident in use/average application of materials; little
inventiveness
2 Major problems evident – materials are not used competently or inventively
1 Incorrect; incompetent use of medium
Expression
- Exceedingly successful aesthetic presentation; demands attention and admiration; evidence of personal vision/style; expresses feeling and/or concepts well
- Successful presentation, unusual for age level; stimulates serious observation; evidence of personal vision and expression
- Aesthetically pleasing, good work for age level; somewhat expressive
- Rather mediocre for age level, does not compel attention; minimal visual expression
- Unappealing use of medium; lacks style and expression
___________Total Score (Originality+Technical Proficiency+Expression)
Preparation of selected entries for Scholastic Art Awards of Nebraska Exhibit:
Work should be delivered no later than February 16 at 5:00 P.M.
For 2d work:
Be sure you are following the rules for hanging and matting: Black or white mats only. Use a piece of oak tag or mat board behind all works. This provides protection and a cleaner presentation.
Identify on the back of the work which direction it should hang with an arrow and the word “TOP”. The direction of the entry form is not always the best indicator of the direction of the work.
Do not send works that are framed or oversized. Please use foam core behind the mat if it is not flush with the artwork. Work tends to fall off the walls and mats and/or artwork can get damaged.
Since we need to hang the works with staples or pins, you may cut a little larger mat so the edges can be trimmed when it is returned.
Please do not mat canvas board or batiks that are on thick boards.
Please spray or cover with acetate delicate drawings of charcoal, pastel chalk, conte etc. This will protect the art and the art of others.
Please pack artworks along with the corresponding submission forms in the same mailing package. If you have more than one package, please label them 1 of 2, 2 of 2 etc.
For 3d work:
Identify the work using the entry form. The entry form can be tied or inserted in the work. Please pack artworks along with the corresponding submission forms in the same mailing package. If you have more than one package, please label them 1 of 2, 2 of 2 etc. If more than 30 pounds in weight please call Lynn at 557-2406 to make delivery arrangements.
TAKE CARE IN PACKING WORK:
Shipping: Artwork must fit in a box with appropriate packing materials, including styrofoam, peanuts, bubble wrap and/or double boxing, whose dimensions do not exceed 130 inches in length and girth combined (length + width + depth + depth). A good rule to estimate the packing size of artwork is to add six inches to length, width and depth before using the formula above. If more than 30 pounds in weight please call Lynn at 557-2406 to make delivery arrangements.
2D works should not exceed 48 inches in any direction and, in general, the largest 2D work that can be accommodated is 36 inches by 48 inches.
Delivery of Artwork:
Identification on artwork should include the official name of your school, as well as the city. Put the teacher’s name(s) on the packing box. Please number your boxes or packages
accordingly (example: 1 of 4, 2 of 4, 3 of 4, etc.)
Deliver to OPS after February 7. All work should be to TAC by February 16. The mailroom docks are located on the south side of the building on Burt Street. Your school is responsible for delivery costs.
Send work in sturdy, reusable containers. We will do our best to use the same packages to return the work to your school. If you are mailing work, do not go over the post office official size limitations. Omaha Post offices WILL NOT allow us to return over-sized packages.
Exhibition:
The show will be hung on Saturday, February 18. We will begin at 9:00 A.M.
The exhibition dates are February 22–March 14.
Liability
There is no insurance coverage while the artwork is in our possession or in transit. We will take all possible care in protecting the work.
Return of artwork
The exhibit will on display until March 14. Call Lynn at 557-2406 or email her at lynn.christensen@ops.org to arrange a time after this date to pick up your work. Please give us time to take down and repack your work before assuming it is ready to take. On rare occasions, a wrong box gets picked up, or work gets mixed in shipment. PLEASE CHECK YOUR BOXES CAREFULLY AND NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE MISSING WORKS OR IF YOU HAVE SOMEONE ELSE’S WORK. We do our best to track down these problems.
WORK NOT PICKED UP BY APRIL 13 WILL BE RETURNED TO YOUR SCHOOL. (We do not mail work to schools within the Metro Omaha area).