Welcome to art wars

your In-the-moment
art competition

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How it works

Art Wars is an in-the-moment competition where student artists, from multiple schools, compete against each other to make the best artwork possible in their category. There are multiple categories that include drawing,  painting, digital photography, and clay. Students register for a category and are placed in a room with 10-15 other students in that same category. They are given a time period in which to complete a prompt based work of art, all the while being critiqued by the judge in the room.

Art Categories

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A topic or theme will be presented. Students have 2 hours to plan, prepare and create a work of art using a traditional drawing medium such as graphite, pen, marker, pastel, etc.

Drawing > Traditional

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During Art Attack, students will have 2 hours to complete 3 different mediums, all with a different subject matter/category. This event could play well to the artist who is talented in multiple mediums and does not necessarily focus on one. Mediums will be secreted until round has begun. This will be a fast pace, high intensity event.

Clay

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2D or 3D (depending on available software).
A Topic or theme will be presented. Students will have 2 hours to plan, prepare, and create an animation incorporating that topic or theme.

Photography

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A topic or theme will be presented. Students have 2 hours to plan, prepare, and create an acrylic painting.

Painting

Become a host

Want to promote your institution? Why waste your professor's time and money by sending them to high schools to sit in a cafeteria hoping for students to walk by? Instead, bring students to your school. Give them more than a tour, give them an experience with Art Wars. 

What participants are saying

Sidney Christenson

"Art Wars is the most fun school competition I've been to."

Sidney Christenson

Former Participant
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"Art Wars is the best thing to happen to creatives since the MSHSL Art Contest! Art students get a real world experience of creating with the clock ticking. It's an awesome event!"
 

Paul Johnson

College Professor

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