Annual Spiritual and Religious Youth Art Competition

November 23, 2019 - January 4, 2020

Thank you to all the youth who entered the Annual Spiritual & Religious Youth Art Competition at the Springville Museum of Art. We were so impressed by your creativity, skill and talent! The jurying was very competitive and we wish we could show all of the works entered into this exhibition. Thank you again for participating in this show. Please plan on joining us at the opening reception Saturday November 23rd from 12pm-1pm. 

With the holiday season swiftly approaching, we are excited to announce this year’s Annual Spiritual & Religious Youth Art Competition. This exhibition is open to K-10 students living in Utah Valley. This year, in efforts to make this an interfaith celebration, we are encouraging students to create artwork that will coincide with themes found in the Spiritual & Religious Invitational exhibition Ars Moriendi: The Art of Death and Dying. The prompts for this year’s Youth Art Competition will focus on memories. 

We encourage students to consider the following prompts when thinking of subject matter:

  • Create an artwork of your favorite memory
  • How does art help you remember a loved one who has died?
  • Create an artwork of a family tradition

Important Dates:

Thursday and Friday Nov 7-8, 2019, 10am-5pm, Saturday November 9, 2019, 10am-4pm
Artworks may be dropped off at the Museum

November 15, 2019 
List of accepted works will be posted at smofa.org

November 23, 12pm-1pm
 Public Opening Reception

January 4, 2020 
Exhibition closes 

January 10-11, 2020, 10am-5pm
Artwork Pickup
Items not picked up by January 31, 2020 will not be retained.

Images: Emily Myres, Journey Out of Darkness, 2018; Xochitl Ramos, The Interview, 2018; Ella McAllister, Jesus Loves the Children, 2018; Esther Sanford, If I Perish, I Perish, 2018