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 Work for Water Art Scholarship Contest Water Conservation~Depicting Wise Water Use through Art
The Freshwater Society presents 2012 Work for Water Art and Design Contest. This year's contest is a call to action! We are looking for high school students to inspire Minnesotans to take action to protect our waters. High School students have two opportunities to graphically and creatively convey the issue of Urban Runoff and motivate others to respond through simple behavior change, while understanding why their actions are so important.
The 2012 Work for Water Art and Design Contest builds on Freshwater Society's seven successful years of the Water is Life Art Contest and will be held in partnership with Synergy & Leadership Exchange and the Minnesota Service Cooperatives. The Work for Water Art and Design Contest will not only highlight the importance of water in our lives, but also educate and provoke citizens to take simple everyday steps to protect our waters.
2012 Work For Water Design Contest asks students to create graphic design, short videos, photos, paintings, drawings, etc. to be used as messaging tools for Freshwater Society's Work for Water Campaign, a multi-year campaign to engage Minnesotans in protecting water. Each contest will have regional and state honorees. Winning entries will be featured on billboards, in PSAs, websites, yard signs, t-shirts, etc. throughout the state. They will become tools inspiring change! This art contest is open to all public, private and home schooled 9th-12th grade students in Minnesota. The contest has been endorsed by Minnesota Academic League Council and is listed in the 2011-2012 Reach for the Stars catalogue.
2012 Work for Water Art and Design Contest Brochure (PDF).View the contest brochure for program details and submission guidelines.
Contest Dates and Deadlines:
2011 Scholarship Winners  Nancy (Siyang) Yang, Rochester Century High School Yang, one of six scholarship recipients, was chosen from 32 finalists, who had emerged from a field of more than 225 artists from more than 85 schools across Minnesota. Each art entry was accompanied by a statement about how the artists’ work represented the value of water or the threats that water faces in today’s world.
Her sculpture, which is also a fountain, depicts women from Africa, India and the American Southwest gathering water. She explained, “Though each culture is different, water feeds them all, so I made all the figures feminine, to exemplify water’s life-giving property. When water is pumped out of the fountain, some of it leaks through the holes at the side, representing how water at times is wasted or lost; but most of it flows as if through the figures and out of their spouts from their hands, to show how water cycles through us and returns to Earth.”  Brandon Cole, Stewartville High School Shelby Heintz, Kasson-Mantorville High School Christine Hofschulte, Plainview-Elgin-Millville High School
Past Southeast Minnesota Scholarship Winner and Semi-Finalists
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