Center for Small Town Jewish Life Art Contest
Youth Ages 12 and Under Entry Form
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2027

The Center for Small Town Jewish Life at Colby College invites you to submit your original, Jewish-themed artwork in any visual medium. Winners will receive a prize and have their work featured on note cards and celebrated at our Maine Conference for Jewish Life in June 2027. There is no entry fee, and no purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to enter or to win.

Eligibility

The Contest is open only to individuals who are legal residents of the State of Maine at the time of entry.
There are three age categories, determined by the entrant’s age as of the submission deadline (January 15, 2027): (a) Youth, 12 and under; (b) Youth, 13 through 17; and (c) Adult, 18 and over.
Entrants under 18 may enter only with the consent of a parent or legal guardian, who must complete the parent/guardian consent portion of the entry form.
Employees of Colby College and the Center, and the immediate family members of such employees, are not eligible to enter.
Each artist may submit one entry.

Any entry that does not meet these eligibility requirements, or that does not comply with the contest rules, may be disqualified.

For full contest rules, please click here.

Youth Ages 12 and Under Entry Form

Notice: This form must be completed by the entrant's parent or legal guardian.

To enter in one of our other age categories, please find the appropriate entry form on this page.

What we collect and why. To enter the Center for Small Town Jewish Life Art Contest, we collect your child’s first name and age group and the artwork, artwork title, medium, and optional artist statement, and we collect your name, relationship to your child, email address, telephone number, and optional mailing address. We use this information to administer the Contest, contact you, conduct judging and voting, and award prizes, and for the uses described in the Official Rules.

Publicity. Your child’s first name and age group, artwork, artwork title, artist statement, and town of residence may appear in Contest publicity and in the Center’s reports, presentations, website, social media, and other activities. Telephone numbers and mailing addresses are not published.

Who receives the information. We share the information only with Contest administrators and as required by law. We do not sell, rent, or share your child’s information with unrelated third parties.

Your choices. You may refuse to let your child participate, and you may ask us to review or delete your child’s personal information at any time by emailing [email protected]. If we do not receive your verifiable consent within a reasonable time, we will delete the information we collected for this entry.

The entrant is a legal resident of Maine.*

The entrant is not an immediate family member of a Colby College or Center for Small Town Jewish Life employee .*

The entrant will be age 12 or under as of Jan. 15, 2027.*

Entrant's First Name

Artwork Title

Artwork Medium

Artist Statement

Please submit the entrant's artwork as a JPG file here.

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Parent/Legal Guardian Consent

Parent/Legal Guardian Full Name

Relationship to Entrant

Parent/Guardian Email

Parent/Guardian Phone

Mailing Address

If you answered "Other," please list your Jewish community and its location.

Assent, License, and Publicity Agreement

I am the parent or legal guardian of the entrant, and I consent to the entrant’s participation in the Center for Small Town Jewish Life Art Contest.*

On the entrant’s behalf, I have read and agree to the Official Rules, and I confirm the entrant is a Maine resident in the stated age group.*

I confirm that the artwork is the entrant’s own original work, was not generated or assisted by artificial intelligence, does not infringe anyone else’s rights, and contains no overt partisan political message.*

The entrant keeps the copyright in the artwork, and on the entrant’s behalf I grant Colby College and its Center for Small Town Jewish Life the same license described in the Official Rules (worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, and sublicensable), including use on note cards and other merchandise, in reports and presentations, and on the website and social media, with credit when practicable.*

I agree that Colby may publish the entrant’s first name, artwork title, artist statement, age group, and town of residence, and, if the entrant wins, may use the entrant’s photograph, likeness, voice, biography, and interview comments to promote and report on the Contest.*

I am agreeing electronically on the entrant’s behalf, which has the same effect as a signature on paper.*

Electronic Signature
Parent/legal guardian: Type your full legal name, your relationship to the entrant, and today’s date.

Full Legal Name

Relationship to Entrant

Date

Please note that for children ages 12 and under, we must collect a consent form with a handwritten signature from a parent or legal guardian. The form will be available to download once you click submit and will also be sent to you via email. We must receive this signed consent form in order to complete your child's art contest submission. If we do not receive your verifiable consent within a reasonable time, we will delete the information we collected for this entry.

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Center for Small Town Jewish Life Art ContestYouth Ages 12 and Under Entry FormDeadline for submissions: January 15, 2027

Eligibility

Center for Small Town Jewish Life Art Contest
Youth Ages 12 and Under Entry Form
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2027