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CALLING YOUNG ARTISTS! WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE YOUR ART PUBLISHED?
The Detroit Public Library and Detroit Free Press Columnist Rochelle Riley announce the 2010 Book Art Contest for Children and Essay Contest for Parents!
The Detroit Public Library invites children aged 9 to 13 across
southeastern Michigan to participate in the “Raising A Parent” Art Contest for Children.The contest, which is sponsored by the Library and the Skillman
Foundation and supported by the Lakeshore Engineering Foundation, is to find sketches to appear in Rochelle Riley’s new book: “Raising A Parent: Lessons My Daughter Taught Me While We Grew Up Together.”
Rochelle also is seeking parent essays to be featured in the 2011 book: “Raising A Parent: Lessons Our Children Have Taught Us, ” an opportunity for parents to tell their own stories.Children should submit black and white sketches in the following
categories: Holidays, Nicknames, First Day of School, Teen Clothes, Bad Words, Report Cards, Birthdays, Back to School, Discipline, First Cars, Privacy, Prom, Vacation Car Rides and Grandparents.Twelve winning young artists each will see their art published in
Rochelle’s book and will receive one $500 scholarship. Parents will be contacted about their essays.The deadline to submit the sketches is Thursday, April 1, Each must be drawn on an 8 "-inch by 11-inch sheet of white sketch paper that is TURNED SIDEWAYS. Art teachers are encouraged to guide, but not aid students. Each sketch should have the child’s name, school address and school phone number on the back.
Please send all entries – sketches and 500 - to 700-word parent essays to:
RAISING A PARENT ART AND ESSAY CONTESTS
Marketing Department
Detroit Public Library
5201 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48202
Attn: Tracey Wyatt.The contest is the first in a series of events that Rochelle is partnering with the library on to encourage reading and to teach families that whatever they like – art, rap, music, cooking, poetry, space travel, entrepreneurship – can be found at their local library.
For more information about the contests, contact Tracey Wyatt of the Detroit Public Library at (313) 481.1341.
Raising a Parent Art Contest Information
