Student Art Contest 2019
Entry Forms & Instructions

Entry Forms for the Student Art Contest at the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts should be submitted electronically (download the PDF form below) AND in hard copy form along with the artwork. Please read the following guidelines before submitting entry forms. ​
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Who needs to submit entry forms? 
Entry Forms must be submitted for every piece of artwork that will be delivered to the Pearl for Final Adjudication (judging). Please note that most students’ artwork will first be submitted to the school or school district for pre-adjudication, and only the resulting selections are delivered to the museum for Final Adjudication.

Art teachers – Your school district administrator may require you to use the museum’s entry forms to facilitate their pre-adjudication process, in which case forms will be submitted for entries that may not advance to the Final Adjudication stage.
  • Public Schools: 
    Each public school district may submit up to 25 entries. The district is responsible for adjudicating their students’ work (from all campuses) first in order to arrive at the maximum of 25 entries. The district may determine the number of entries per school division as long as the total number of submissions to the museum is 25 or less.
  • Private Schools and Home School Students:
    Each home school teacher and private school may submit up to 20 entries; forms should be submitted for all 20 entries. Private and Home School artwork submissions will then be pre-adjudicated by the contest judges, and up to 25 entries from the combined Private and Home School ‘District’ will go on to be judged in Final Adjudication.

When should entry forms be submitted? 
Forms must be submitted electronically before delivery of the artwork to the Pearl for Final Adjudication.  The deadline for electronic form submission is March 25, 2019.  Hard copies of the forms should also be printed by this date and given to the school or district administrator* responsible for delivering the artwork to the Pearl the following week. 

*Administrators should contact Sylvia de Hek prior to March 25, 2019 to schedule an appointment for delivering artwork:  sdehek@comcast.net.
ENTRY FORM INSTRUCTIONS
  • Download the 3-page fillable PDF by clicking the link below, and OPEN with Adobe Acrobat (not in your internet browser). 
  • Fill in Page 1 completely; the fields will auto-populate the same fields on Pages 2 & 3.  Enter the Artist Statement on Page 3.
  • PRINT all 3 pages, and attach Artist Statement to artwork (follow instructions on Page 3).
  • Click either one of the SUBMIT form buttons on Page 1. Adobe will prompt you to send the form via email.  
Note: If your firewall blocks the Submit pop-up window, please save the completed form to your computer and email the form to pearlmuseumeducator@gmail.com. 
  • All entries should receive an automated response confirming receipt of the form.

Please note:  The file should be downloaded and opened using the Adobe Acrobat Reader* program for electronic submission to work properly.  Most browsers will open the file within a browser window; please note that you will not be able to fill in the fields when it is opened inside a browser window.  You must click the Download icon to save the PDF file to your computer, and then fill in the form.
*Adobe Acrobat Reader is available for free download here.
DOWNLOAD ENTRY FORM (Click link below)
SAC 2019 Entry Form
File Size: 1143 kb
File Type: pdf
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For any questions or technical issues regarding the entry forms, please contact Community Engagement Director Emily Guerra at 832-610-2838  or emily@pearlmfa.org.
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