SAVE THE FROGS! Arts Contest 2015

• The SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest invites you to create your coolest frog artwork. The contest will raise awareness of the amphibian extinction problem by getting people involved and interested.
• The artwork will be used on t-shirts, stickers, posters, coffee mugs, hats, and in greeting cards and books, to both publicize our cause and raise money for SAVE THE FROGS! amphibian conservation efforts.
• Save the Frogs Art Contest has received 9,336 entries between 2009-13.
• Result of the SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest 2013

The Grand Prize Winner of Save the Frogs Art Contest will

• Receive $100
• Receive $75 worth of "Frog Cash" to be used for any of the merchandise in the SAVE THE FROGS! Gift Center;
• See their winning poetry placed on the Frog Poetry Contest winners webpage with links to their personal, school, organisation or professional website for the duration of their reign (until the subsequent contest's winner is announced).
• Become an official judge of next year's SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest.
• Receive frog fame.

The 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive

• $75 worth of "Frog Cash" to be used for any of the merchandise in the SAVE THE FROGS! Gift Center.
• Contest winners will also be acknowledged on the savethefrogs.com website.

Art Work Featued in SAVE the Frogs GIft Centre

• The Grand Prize Winner and Category Winners may all see their artwork featured on products sold by SAVE THE FROGS! Gift Center.
• Contest winners and honorable mentions will also be acknowledged on this website, along with a picture of their artwork.

SUBMISSION PROCESS for Save the Frogs Art Contest

Digital Submission
If your artwork was digitally created, then you should follow these two steps. Please fill out this form ONLY if your art was CREATED using a computer. Please do NOT scan your paper artwork. Summary: this is where you submit DIGITAL art.

Step 1:  Fill out this entry form and click submit.
Step 2: Then you MUST email your HIGH RESOLUTION file (in .jpg format ONLY) to art@savethefrogs.com with subject line Art Submission. 

• The art must be an ATTACHMENT -- not embedded in the email, not linked to from the email. 
• Please include the native file (.psd, .ai, .eps) if you have one.
• Include your first and last name, your age and country in the contents of the email! 
• If your art is over 20MB we suggest you send it to us via YouSendIt.

Offline Submission

If your artwork is on paper or any other non-digital format, please mail it in. Multiple submissions should be placed in a single envelope. PLEASE READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY:

(1) If you are a TEACHER submitting all your students' beautiful artwork, you MUST include the Teacher's Mail-In Contest Entry Form. Do NOT glue the entry form to the artwork! One form per envelope is fine.

(2) If you are NOT a teacher, then you MUST include this Mail-In Contest Entry Form with your artwork, one form per envelope. Do NOT glue the entry form to your artwork!

(3) Contestants' name, age and country MUST be written carefully on the back side of the artwork (carefully means don't poke through the paper. We suggest using a pencil, and writing softly). This step is important, as your entry form and mailing envelope will be separated from your artwork!

(4) Your Entry Form should NOT be attached to the artwork. No tape, no staples, no glue, no paper clips! 

(5) Mail-in entries will NOT be returned to the contestant: SAVE THE FROGS! plans to sell the artwork at a fundraiser to raise funds for our conservation work.

(6) Please read the SAVE the Frogs Art contest rules.

(7) Note that Mail-in entries can be any size you wish, and created using any materials.

(8) We strongly advise inserting a sturdy piece of cardboard into the package to keep it from getting bent (mailmen like to bend packages). Used cereal boxes work well for this, or cut a piece off a box you're getting rid of.

(9) Please do not spend lots of money mailing your art: we prefer you donate to SAVE THE FROGS! rather than shipping via expensive priority mail or Fed Ex. As long as your mail is postmarked by October 15th, it will be entered into this year's contest, so there is no rush.

(10) We encourage all participants from the USA and Canada to include at least $1 in their package to help us offset our costs of running the contest. Dollar bills are fine, and checks can be written to SAVE THE FROGS!. Thank you!

(11) Write DO NOT BEND on the outside of your package, front and back, with large writing. Then mail your entry form and artwork to:

SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest
303 Potrero Street #51
Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA

Guidelines for making the artwork:

• Artwork may be hand-drawn or digitally produced. It can feature frogs, toads, salamander, newts or caecilians. 
• It can be full-color or black & white (e.g. one-color frog outlines of the type used for a coloring book. You can even draw a logo if you like. It's up to you!
• All artwork must refer to SAVE THE FROGS! by including, visibly and legibly:                          
                                       EITHER

(a) the phrase SAVE THE FROGS! (capitalized, with an exclamation point!)
                                              OR
(b) the phrase savethefrogs.com (lowercase with NO exclamation point)
                                               OR
c) both SAVE THE FROGS! and savethefrogs.com (as in the logo below).

SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest

303 Potrero Street, #51, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA

Email: art@savethefrogs.com