7th Annual Kids Art Contest

Announcing the WINNERS of the 2016 Contests! Congrats to you all!

WINNERS of the (2016) 7th Annual Kids Art Contest

Download the participation certificate for 2016’s contest. Carefully print out and write your child or student’s name in.

2016-FRG-Certification-Participation

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Calling all children, ages 3-17!

Enter your best artwork into our 7th Annual Frogs Are Green International Kids Art Contest!

We will award winners in these age groups: 3-6, 7-9, 10-12, 13-17. We also add categories based on what we receive, such as: (Best Student/Elder Collaboration; Best 3D; Most Unusual; Best Environmental; Best Black and White. Awards are given to 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place and honorable mention for each age group.

Deadline for submissions is December 31, 2016 and the winners will be announced by January 31, 2017. The winners will be featured in a blog post. Many of the submitted artworks are shared online, through our website, social media and in awareness materials. (By entering, you grant Frogs Are Green permission to use your artwork. Credit to artist will be included.)

This year, the 1st place winners in each age group will receive these prizes (so far!): Our new custom designed “Frogs Are Green” Strawesome glass straw and a complete set of our 5 coloring books (3 Volumes of Frog Art & 2 Volumes of Rainforest Art)!

Frogs Are Green Kids Art Contest 2016 prizes

Frogs Are Green Kids Art Contest 2016 prizes

Contest theme:

FROGS and BUGS!

Your artwork can be about frogs, amphibians, bugs, insects, rainforests, climate change, pollution, deforestation, drought, natural habitats, etc… and how you (or all of us) can help the environment.

Learn about where frogs live: streams, ponds, woods, cloud forests, rainforests… we have posted a few articles to guide you:

Water Issues and Amphibians – blogs by Frogs Are Green

Frogs and Gardens – blogs by Frogs Are Green

 

Learning about Frogs and Bugs

What do frogs eat and what eats frogs

Frogs and Insects

Wikipedia – Frog

We’re looking for drawings, paintings, sculpture, collage, or whatever format helps you express yourself.

The video below from last year explains how to enter your artwork, same rules apply.

 

To enter the contest, you join the kids art contest group (and the right age group) on Flickr and just upload your entries. Each child can submit up to 3 artworks. Teachers can upload student’s work and parents can upload their children’s work. If you are in a country where you cannot view Flickr, you can email your digital image to Frogs Are Green along with the child’s name, age and country, and we will add the image to the group. ****Note: You DO NOT need to have an email with Yahoo to enter! Just look on the Sign In/Sign Up on Flickr and you’ll see other email options or send them by email to us!
However, if you wish to see all the images in the gallery, you must join Flickr.

Each entry MUST INCLUDE the Child’s Name, Age, and Country (and a caption if you like) or your submission cannot be judged. If entering the student/elder collaboration we’ll need the Elder person’s name and age also.

Enter the 7th Annual Frogs Are Green Kids Art Contest for 2016 Now!

Enter >> 2016 Kids Art Contest – Age Group 3-6

Enter >> 2016 Kids Art Contest – Age Group 7-9

Enter >> 2016 Kids Art Contest – Age Group 10-12

Enter >> 2016 Kids Art Contest – Age Group 13-17

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FEATURED CATEGORY for 2016

Enter Contest >> 2016 Youth / Elder Collaboration

 

7th Annual Frogs Are Green Kids Art Contest

7th Annual Frogs Are Green Kids Art Contest

Please print out the attached >> 7th Annual Frogs Are Green Kids Art Contest poster PDF << and post it in your neighborhood libraries, community centers and schools.

 

Thank you to our 2016 Sponsors

 

Strawesome -  creating glass straws to replace plastic one   Remco Press of New Jersey
Endorsed by: City Council President Rolando Lavarro, City of Jersey City, Save The Frogs, Pershing Field Garden Friends, Amphibian Ark, HARCC (Honduras), Jersey City Parks Coalition, Camp Liberty, Association Mitsinjo, National Wildlife Federation and ACSAM 2.

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Countries who have participated in the annual kids art contest over the years: Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, England, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Malaysia, Morocco, Philippines, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirate, and United States.

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Judges for 2016:

Joanthan Kolby HARCCJonathan Kolby (HARCC – Honduras Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Center)

Jonathan Kolby is a National Geographic Explorer and PhD student at James Cook University, studying the global amphibian extinction crisis and spread of amphibian chytrid fungus.  Jonathan first became involved in wildlife conservation at the age of 15, when he joined an expedition to document reptile and amphibian biodiversity in Southeast Asia. He has now been involved in 20 field expeditions spanning the globe from Honduras to Madagascar to Hong Kong.  He has now published over a dozen scientific papers and written blogs posts for National Geographic and the IUCN Amphibian Specialist Group.  Highlights of his recent work include the rediscovery of a frog previously declared extinct in Honduras (Craugastor milesi), the detection of amphibian chytrid fungus in the rain, and the first discovery of chytrid-positive frogs exported from Madagascar. For the past 10 years, Jonathan has been working to prevent amphibian extinction in Honduras and recently established the Honduras Amphibian Research & Conservation Center (www.FrogRescue.com). To make science more accessible to the general public, Jonathan enjoys using photography and social media to raise awareness and interest in global conservation issues.

Frog Rescue website: www.FrogRescue.com

Frog Rescue YouTube Page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1gP3ca2Ieybcr8azqQOwQ

Frog Rescue Facebook Page:  HARCC on Facebook

 

Geoff Mosher, cartoonistGeoff Mosher, Cartoonist

Geoff Mosher is a cartoonist whose work has been seen on TV, in gallery shows and all over the internet. He lives in Jersey City with his wife and son. Geoff Mosher does not like egg salad. Have more Geoff Mosher fun at mondomosher.com.

 

 

 

 

pam-andesPam Andes, City of Jersey City

Pam Andes, Assistant Director, at the Resident Response Center at City Hall in the City of Jersey City. She oversees the Office of Veterans Affairs and the Office of Welcoming Communities which focuses on immigrant integration and assistance with citizenship. Before working in government, she worked in Creative Services for 10 years at Showtime Networks. Wife and mother of three, Pam has been active in the community as a neighborhood block watcher, board member of Harsimus Cove neighborhood association, Catholic Action of Mary, Ladies of Rizal, Democratic Committee person and Caribbean Parade Committee. Daughter of parents who emigrated from the Philippines, she enjoys all cultures and world travel. She attended NYU and NJCU.
 

 

 

Bethe Anne SchwartzBethe Anne Schwartz, Environmentalist and Community / Health Advovate

Bethe is co-founder of Jersey City Gardening Coalition and Jersey City Homelessness Advocacy Group. Member of P.E.A.C.E. Community Garden and Where’s Waldo Avenue Community Garden in Journal Square’s Five Corners & Hilltop/The Island neighborhoods. Former project lead of Sustainable Jersey City’s Network of Sustainable Community Gardens build; owner-member and grocery “store” maven of the former Jersey City Food Co-op; and steward at St. Joseph’s RC Church social ministry food outreach. A lifetime of interest in healthy food systems and access, food security and justice, and advocating for a culturally-sensitive food system. Also, Bethe comes from a family accustomed to growing some of their own… on plots small and large. Years of working in the health care and social services delivery systems with a “dis-ease” models pointed to the intrinsic links between gardening/farming and a sense of well-being for those persons grappling with developmental disabilities, and mental and chronic illnesses. And spurred an interest in just what was happening to our environment: because all the while much attention was being paid to therapeutic interventions and the benefits of the soil, there were some troubling changes taking place in the landscapes around us. Firmly believe that frogs are the predictors of many of those variables… and our future.

 

Erin A. DeLaney

Erin A. DeLaney, Photographer

Erin A. DeLaney started taking pictures with her grandfather’s 1930s rangefinder 35mm camera in high school, then went on to study photography at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communication. After graduation, she moved to New York City and worked in commercial photo labs before starting to freelance as a photographer and digital artist. She moved to the Heights section of Jersey City in 1999. She began exhibiting her photography in Jersey City in 2014 and 2015 in several group art shows. She also had a solo photo show “Urban Oasis: Photography in the Jersey City Reservoir” displayed at Jersey City City Hall in May, 2016. Her work can be seen on her website at ErinADeLaneyPhoto.com

 

 

 

Sigrid ShreeveSigrid Shreeve, (aka: Rosa Da Silver) Author of Jabujicaba and Environmentalist

Founding Director, Voices for Nature
June 2014 – Present, Oxford

Founded Voices for Nature in June 2014, a not for profit company. We are STORY-TELLERS who inspire and engage new action to conserve Brazil’s rainforests. We believe that stories are powerful tools for learning and catalysts for change. We write, act, direct, debate, film our rainforest stories – and sometimes rap.

Our work is based on the ECO-THRILLER ‘Jabujicaba‘ set in Brazil (pen name Rosa da Silva). Brazil is bankrupt and the Amazon is up for auction….

Jabujicaba’s characters are on learning journeys which lead them (the reader) to ask fundamental questions about Brazil’s rainforests, about our relationship with the natural world and with each other. And, of course, take positive individual action together for a better future!

Using Jabujicaba we work with young people in UK secondary schools to DEBATE issues raised in the novel from the view point of its characters. We founded and run the Jabuji Debates, the UK’s first environmental/geo-political debate, initiated, supported and hosted by Eton College. The first national debates finals were March 2016. The finalists included sixth formers from state schools in Kent, London and Berkshire.

We are producing ‘The Amazon Auction’ forum THEATRE for performance in University of Oxford Botanic Gardens, June 2016 with Wheatley Park School.

We are executive producers of the natural history DOCUMENTARY Uncharted Amazon. It is being screened as part of the Oxford Festival of Arts. We are running rainforest campaign workshops with Film Oxford for young people.

We have a FEATURE FILM under development based on Jabujicaba with a crowd funder just launched, as part of the Richard Branson competition #VOOM2016. Voting/pledging now live. Our pitch: https://www.vmbvoom.com/pitches/make-jabujicaba-the-movie .

All royalties from Jabujicaba go to conservation.

All our educational activities and arts events are free to attend.

The founders fund Voices for Nature philanthropically (no remuneration or expenses).

 

Valerie Clark of iFrogsValerie Clark, Biologist, i.F.r.o.g.s.

After earning her Ph.D. on the “Chemistry of Amphibian Skin Secretions,” Dr. Valerie C. Clark founded the conservation organization i.F.r.o.g.s. (Indigenous Forest Research Organization for Global Sustainability) 501(c)(3). i.F.r.o.g.s. engages the public online to explore Earth’s biodiversity and is active on the ground in Madagascar with local people to survey biodiversity and protect and restore rain forests. Her scientific expeditions have been supported by the National Geographic Society since 2007. Her publications are available for free at frogchemistry.com.

 

 

 

Susan Newman – Host and Supervisor
Founder, Frogs Are Green
Susan Newman, Founder of Frogs Are Green photographed by Alyssa Bredin in Riverview Park Jersey CitySusan Newman, a Brand Visibility Designer, educator and environmentalist, is the founder of FROGS ARE GREEN and spends her days showing how she feels about the Earth and spreading the awareness that we need to save frogs and amphibians.

Susan is currently teaching “Peaceful Frogs,” a Frogs Are Green collaboration with Mindful Play Yoga in Jersey City and Hoboken. She is also a substitute teacher for the Hoboken Board of Education.

A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, Susan spent her early career working as a graphic designer and art director for various NYC book publishers, including Macmillan and Penguin. In 1994, she established her own design firm, Susan Newman Design, Inc., and builds brands near and far.

Susan received her certification in web design from The New School in 2000, and graduated from New Jersey Learns as a sustainability educator in 2015.

Susan has donated her design work to various organizations including: Save The Frogs, Parc Mitsinjo, ACSAM (A Conservation Strategy for the Amphibians of Madagascar), Hoboken 9/11 Memorial Committee, Jubilee Center Hoboken for Children, The Central Avenue Special Improvement District, Actors Shakespeare Company, Hudson Theatre Ensemble, Pennsylvania Women’s Hall of Achievement and The Ring of Hope Campaign.

19 thoughts on “7th Annual Kids Art Contest

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  3. Hi Amy, Yes you can send the artwork by mail (post), however we prefer that all artworks are uploaded to Flickr.com or emailed to us.
    Also, in regard to your other email, what form did you mean?
    – Susan

  4. What is your email address. please inform me in our email address. We are from India Flickr.com is not available.

  5. Hi Keti,
    If you are having trouble with Flickr, just email us your large, scanned images and we can add them to the Flickr gallery for you.
    Thanks, Susan

  6. Dear Ma’am
    Can you please confirm the email address where I can send my artwork? Also I wish to know if it is compulsory to write caption on the artwork.
    Thanks & regards
    Dheeman Gangopadhyay

  7. Dear Dheeman,
    Please email your images to info@frogsaregreen.com. No, we do not need a caption, but we need the child’s (for art) or adult’s (photos) full name and location, and for children, their age.
    Susan 🙂

  8. My 4 years-old daughter would like to take part the Frogs are green art contest. I am able to upload her artworks at flickr. The problem is where can I add description and details of my daughter?

  9. Dear Min lo,
    Thank you for adding your daughter’s artwork to our annual kids art contest! Once you upload an image, there is a spot for the description, and tags (such as keyword tags, like: kids art contest, or frog art). If you cannot find this area, you can just add it in the comment area. Send your daughter’s name, so I can check it is in the gallery.
    Susan 🙂

  10. I am born on 13-02-1998 am I eligible to this contest if so how to upload the image and size of the image specifications,kindly inform at the earliest as time is short
    with thanks
    Anvitha

  11. Dear Manasa,
    Yes our contest is international and open to all! The children’s contest accepts entries from children ages 3-17 and the photo contests are open to all ages. The deadline has been extended to 12.31.16.
    Thanks, Susan

  12. Dear ma’am
    I have won meritorious prize in black and white category.I request you to kindly send my certificate.
    Yours sincerely
    Dheeman

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