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2025  LWV Austin Area Art & Writing Contest

2025 Picture This Theme:
What Makes A Strong Community?

2025 Picture This Flyer 

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Who can participate
Who can participate

Austin area students in elementary school (grades 1- 5), middle school (grades 6-8), and high school (grades 9-12)

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Submissions
Submissions

Original visual artwork or written work illustrating or discussing "what makes a strong community." Written pieces may be in the form of an essay, poem, or fictional work of no more than 500 words. Visual artwork may be in the from of a painting, drawing, screen print, or photograph with a size limit of 24 in x 36 in.

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Prizes
Prizes

A $150 Amazon gift card will be given to winners within each age group (up to six total awards). Winners will be recognized at the 2025 Friends & Family Spring Festival.

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Instructions
Instructions
  • Use this form register your participation and complete the consent form (a parent or guardian will complete for students under 18).
  • Create your written work or artwork illustrating “what makes a strong community?”
  • Email your submission by midnight on March 2, 2025 to picturethis@lwvaustin.org.
  • Visual artwork may be photographed or scanned and sent as a jpg, png or pdf file.
  • To drop off your artwork instead, contact us at picturethis@lwvaustin.org.


2025 Picture This Winners
Theme: What Makes a Strong Community? 

 


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Artwork Winner



Vienna Esson, St. Andrew High School, grade 10

Artwork Winner



Mae Headden, Headwaters Elementary, grade 5

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Written Work Winner



Ethan Villanueva, Danielson Middle School, grade 7

"What makes a community strong and bright 
Is working together, day and night
It’s respect for others, no matter their view, 
Finding the common in me and you.

It’s different races, cultures, and ways, 
All are welcome, all can stay.
It’s kindness, care, and lending a hand. 
Uniting through action to understand."

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Artwork Winner



Makenna Curran, Headwaters Elementary, grade 3


Artwork Winner



Olivia Barrera, Walnut Creek Elementary, grade 3
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Written Work Winner



Madeleine Erickson, Headwaters Elementary, grade 5

"Community sounds like lots of people talking over each other but it’s not an overwhelming sound, it’s a calm comforting sound that makes you want to close your eyes and stay in that moment forever."

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Artwork Honorable Mention



Naomi Hotchkiss, Hill Elementary, grade 5 

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