Fifth Annual City-Wide Creation Expression Contest Accepting Entries, Due Wednesday, May 25th, 5PM
Judge Mary Terrell and The High Tea Society is excited to announce the Fifth Annual Civili-Tea City-wide Creative Expression Contest. This year’s theme is “The Face of Your Neighborhood: Envisioning A Safe Community.” Students in the District of Columbia in grades 2-12 may create and submit artwork that illustrates how civility positively impacts their community as well as ways they would like to see their communities improved. Contest winners will receive monetary prizes, and be invited to an Awards Reception located at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery on June 15, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. In addition to this, winning art pieces will be displayed on a local D.C. Metrobus. Entries are due by Wednesday, May 25, 2018 at 5 p.m. All Submissions will be judged for adherence to the theme, creativity, and originality by a panel of judges.1st, 2nd and 3rd place prize winners will be chosen in the following categories: 2nd-5th grade, 6th-8th grade, and 9th-12th grade.
THE MISSION of the High Tea Society (HTS) is to work with girls ages 8-18 from economically challenged communities to bridge the gap between the family and the civil and global communities and prepare our girls with social, life and critical thinking skills for successful passage into the civil and global communities.