This Art Contest for children is organized by Children Gallery Foundation and invites young artists of ages 4 through 16 to participate. The deadline to enter is June 15, 2009. Winners (first, second and third places) in each age category will receive awards. The goal of this competition is to create a global virtual community of young artists, were they can exhibit their work, see the art of other children from different places and countries, share backgrounds and feelings and communicate through art!
Entries may be submitted in one of three categories, based on the artist’s age:

Category I Age 4-6
Category II Age 7-9
Category III Age 10-15

The Subject Matter

The subject matter this Youth Art Contest ”Self-Portrait 2009” is a self-portrait! It is recommended to provide a brief explanation to your art work.

Submit Your Art Works

Each participant may submit two (2) art works created at any medium: drawing, painting, mixed media, sculpture etc. composition must be original. Photographs may be used for reference, but art work determined to have been traced or copied from an existing photograph or work of art will be disqualified. The participants should create new account/log in and upload their art work images to the image gallery under the relevant age group. There is no need to create a new account for this contest if you already have an existing account.
Please notice: if you are planning to submit art works for several artists, you should create an account for each of them separately. This way the system would not put all of your entries under one name. In order to submit a picture to the contest the artist should sign up and upload their art work images (no larger than 3 Mb) to the image gallery under the relevant age group.

Judging the competition

Submitted art works will be judged by the viewers of the www.childrengallery.com web site (50%) and by three professional artists (50%). Entries will be judged on effort, creativity and composition.