Contest Overview & Details

Contest Overview

Due Date: 5 p.m. Monday, December 9, 2024

How to Enter: Submit work to your school office for us to pick up OR deliver to SCSU Office for Institutional Equity and Access, AS 121 OR email mlk@stcloudstate.edu.

Requirements Follow the instructions based on your grade group. In addition to your entry, a brief artist statement will help the judges understand your work and thought process.

Awards: Given during the MLK Everyday Community Celebration, January 20, 2025.

Contest Details

Contest Quote
This year’s event theme is, Our beloved community: Empowering the Dream. The MLK quote for the contest is from 1967, MLK Jr’s Blueprint for Life speech. “Deep belief in your own dignity, your own worth, and your own somebodyness. Don’t let anybody make you feel that you are nobody. Always feel that you count, always feel you have worth, always feel your life has ultimate significance.”

How do you take care of yourself (your dignity, worth, value) while empowering MLK’s dream? How does that action help MLK's dream come closer to reality? Create either a visual, written, or spoken piece that expresses your understanding of the quote and questions. For high school and college students, also add, what is the impact of taking action by caring for yourself and empowering MLK’s dream?

File Formats
Artwork originals under 24" and writings can be submitted to your school office for pick up. Or you can scan/photograph the work and submit a Word document, PDF, JPG, MP4, MOV.

Submission Limit: One creative entry per person.

Judging
While the quality of work is important, judging is also based on the relevance to the quote and questions, plus the artist's statement. Work needs to be original.