Isla's Annual Art-A-Thon

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Art-a-thon promotes the involvement of all students in the arts by encouraging them to create a work of art and to raise funds to support art programs in their schools.  It is organized by the Isla Center for the Arts at the University of Guam and also helps to fund Isla's programming and exhibitions to which many students attend as fieldtrips. Each year, the profits for the Art-a-thon are split evenly between the participating schools and ISLA.  Schools then receive 40% of all the money students raise - money that can be spent on art supples or other materials related to the arts.  40% goes to ISLA's programming and 20% is used to purchase the prizes earned by the students.  This year we are giving away three multimedia computers to the top teach and Art-a-thon Coordinators.  The pledge drive this year is from September 8 - October 4.  Art-a-thon packets that contain all the materials needed for the the pledge drive are sent out to the Coordinators and teachers.  Students have four weeks to collect pledges and create their work of art.  Each student participating needs to make at least one drawing or painting on paper, posterboard or illustration board that is no more than 12" by 18" in size.  Students may not use regular lead pencils. The deadline for pledge submissions to ISLA is October 8.  The completed Art-a-thon materials (the envelopes containg the money that each student collected, their pledge cards, and the teacher report forms) must be submitted to the Coordinator by October 6, so they can tabulate and verify everything to be handed over to ISLA by the 8th.  Late entries will be accepted, but prizes are not guaranteed.  Student artwork may be submitted no later than Friday, October 31. All the data from the Pledge cards and Teacher Report Forms will be entered into ISLA's database and prizes will be ordered from local and off-island vendors.  Prizes will be ready for distribution in the spring.  Prizes must be picked up by the school Coordinators to be distributed to the students, along with the art that was not selected for the spring exhibit.  Art that was chosen for the Spring exhibit will be kept at ISLA until the exhibition closes. Of the artwork that is submitted, a selection committee will identify the works to be included in the Art-a-thon Spring Exhibition.  Each school will be represented by the same number of pieces (usually three).  These work will be professionally matted and framed for the display that which will be at the Isla Center for the Arts (House #15, Dean's Circle).  At the end of the exhibit, the framed works will be returned to the students.   For more information contact 735-2965/6.