Making Art with Children

To celebrate The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art’s 10th anniversary year, we invite friends, families, schools, and other organizations throughout the country and abroad to create 3-dimensional caterpillar sculptures out of found materials. Be inspired by Eric Carle’s most beloved character, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and transform ANY combination of recycled or found materials (plastic, paper, foam, wood, metal, etc.) into a 3-dimensional caterpillar sculpture. Photographs of the caterpillar sculptures will be displayed at The Carle and on The Carle’s Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and homepage.

What You Could Win:

Three entries will be chosen at random at the Museum’s Children’s Book Festival on June 8, 2013 and will receive an original doodle by Eric Carle!

How to Enter:

•  Have fun creating your caterpillar either as an individual or part of a group.

•  Submit up to four digital images of your sculpture. These photos can be of the various stages of fabrication or of the completed caterpillar taken from different angles. Photos should be high-quality .jpg images, no larger than 2MB. Please do not send original artwork!

•  With each submission, please provide artist(s) name(s), a daytime phone number, email address and mailing address of the primary contact. Primary contact must be 18 or older.

•  If you are sending multiple entries please put photos of each submission in a separate folder on the CD.

How to send us your digital images:

Mail images on a CD to: Call For Caterpillars, The Carle, 125 West Bay Road Amherst, MA 01002
Email images as attachments to: callforcaterpillars@carlemuseum.org (see above for photo size guidelines)

Submissions must be postmarked by May 31, 2013. Pictures of the sculptures will be
displayed at the Museum either on a digital picture frame or printed and displayed in the Art
Studio from June through August 2013.
Submitted photos may be featured on The Carle’s social media pages, website or print
publications. Photos become the property of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
and will not be returned.

To print out a PDF of the contest flyer, including guidelines and rules, click here!

For more information visit www.carlemuseum.org/Call_for_Caterpillarsor email callforcaterpillars@carlemuseum.org

Stay tuned for future posts about this contest.  We hope to see your caterpillars very soon!

Tags: 10th Anniversary, 3d, Call for Caterpillars, Eric Carle Doodle, free art contest, materials, sculpture, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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