Call for student art! ¡Sí, se puede! Dolores Huerta Inspired Student Art Exhibit

Name: Call for student art! ¡Sí, se puede! Dolores Huerta Inspired Student Art Exhibit
Start: 2025-02-12T10:00:00-06:00
Location: Mexican American Civil Rights Institute (MACRI)

To celebrate Dolores Huerta’s 95th birthday, MACRI is holding a student art exhibit of original student art inspired by Dolores Huerta. Bexar County middle & high school students are encouraged to submit an original 2-dimensional work of art to be considered for inclusion in the exhibit, which will be held March 3 - April 19, 2025. Complete submission guidelines and a required release form can be found at https://www.somosmacri.org/dolores

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Civil rights trailblazer Dolores Huerta is one of the most influential labor organizers of the 20th century. Huerta co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers’ Union. She organized for safer working conditions, healthcare benefits, and unemployment benefits for farm workers, and she successfully led the 1960s nationwide grape boycott. In 2012, Dolores Huerta received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Huerta continues her work as an advocate today.

To celebrate Dolores Huerta’s 95th birthday, the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute, based in San Antonio, Texas, is holding a student art exhibit of original student art inspired by Dolores Huerta. A panel of judges will select the art for the exhibit. Selected works will be exhibited at the MACRI Visitor Center from March 3, 2025, to April 19, 2025. A reception will be held on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

GENERAL INFORMATION

The contest is open to middle and high school students.

Students must be enrolled in a school in Bexar County (home schools too!)

Artwork must be two- dimensional, and no larger than 20 inches high, 16 inches wide, and 1 inch deep.

The new submission deadline is February 17, 2025.

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