County Public Schools, the Miami Art Museum, and the Anti-Defamation League has launched an
inclusive, county wide visual art and spoken word/poetry competition for M-DCPS K-12 students.
Students will draw from the theme of No Place For Hate through teacher discussions in the classroom,
personal experiences, history, current events and overall message of how to make schools and greater
society accepting of differences to create their own visual art or spoken word piece. Ultimately, the
project will further help the student develop, understand, respect and have acceptance for cultural,
ethnic, and human diversity
Themes:
Themes can be focused on the following social topics but not limited to: LGBTQ issues, bullying,
multicultural diversity, creating change, social justice, and equality.
The Visual Art:
Students will create a two dimensional poster board or paper mounted on matte board, no larger than
24”X36”. Students can be as creative as they would like by for example using imagination, shape/form,
colors, value, contrast, gradation and texture. Submitted entries should include student’s full name,
address, age, and name of school on the lower middle back of the work.
The Spoken Word/Poetry:
Students will write no more than one 8 ½ X 11 page double spaced, type written in length. Students are
encouraged to explore different types of poetry writing such as but not limited to free form, free verse,
and prose. Submitted entries should include title of poem, student’s full name, address, age, and name
of school.
The Prize:
Visual Art, Theater and/or Lead Language Arts Teachers from each participating school will select up to
3 pieces of both visual art and/or spoken word/poetry to send as selected “winners” to represent their
school. Visual art pieces will be exhibited in the Arsht Center’s Peacock Foundation Education Center
for display, free and open to the public from October 27th through November 4th 12-5pm. Spoken
Word/Poetry pieces chosen to represent each school will be compiled to form an anthology available for
viewing on arshtcenter.org. As well, selected pieces will be chosen to be read/performed at the Arsht
Center’s Family Fest Awareness Day Fair on the Thomson Plaza for the Arts on November 3, 2012 at
11:30 am.
Each participating school is encouraged to have their own Awareness day to display the students’
artwork in and around their campuses and share the spoken word/poetry written by their students.
All selected entries are due by October 22, 5PM to the Arsht Center at 1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132.
Mailed entries should be addressed to Education & Community Engagement, dropped-off entries should be delivered to The Ziff Ballet Opera House, Backstage Door Entrance, corner of NE 2nd Avenue and 14th Street.
No Place For Hate© Visual Art and
Spoken Word/Poetry Student Competition
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