Artistic Expressions

High School Art Invitational

Instructions for submitting work in the 2009 High School Art Invitational

March 14 through April 27, 2009 the Joel D. Valdez Main Library will hold its Fourteenth Annual High School Art Invitational.

Local high school art and photography instructors are invited to submit up to, but no more than, five pieces of work, one piece per student, of two-dimensional art, three-dimensional art, or photography by their students. The work is exhibited in the gallery space on the first floor of the Joel D. Valdez Main Library and winners are chosen in various categories of media.

In December of 2008, we will send - via postal mail packets with a letter - instructions and forms to art and photography teachers at local public, private and charter high schools. If you are an art or photography teacher and do not receive the packet by January 16, 2009, please contact the person listed below.

Instructions for submitting work in the High School Art Invitational include the following:

  1. Submit no more than five entries, one per student. This limit will be strictly enforced to be fair to all schools and to ensure sufficient space. Each entry must be securely prepared for wall display (wired or hanger firmly attached) or standing display (assembled and stable for three-dimensional works).
  2. Have each participating student complete the High School Art Invitational Entry form. Firmly attach completed entry form to the entry.
  3. Complete the Art Inventory form for submission with art entries. Have each parent or guardian complete a Permission/Release form. Both of these signed forms are required.
  4. Your entries must be delivered by you, the teacher, to the Information Desk on the first floor of the Joel D. Valdez Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave. no later than Monday, March 9, 2009 at 8 pm. ABSOLUTELY NO entries will be accepted directly from students.
  5. Please plan to attend the Fourteenth Annual High School Art Invitational Reception and Awards Ceremony at 11 am on Saturday, April 25, 2009. Please have your students save the date as well and encourage them to attend.
  6. Please pick up your students' artwork as soon as possible after April 28th. Artwork may be picked up from the 2nd floor of the library during regular library hours: Monday-Wednesday, 9 am-8 pm; Thursday, 9 am-6 pm; Friday, 9 am-5 pm; Saturday, 10 am-5 pm; Sunday, 1-5 pm.

We hope to receive entries from your students!

If you have questions, please contact:
Deborah Bock, Librarian
Pima County Public Library
Joel D. Valdez Main Library
101 N. Stone
Tucson, AZ 85701
(520) 594-5500
deb.bock@pima.gov

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