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Student International Art Show and Competition
FOR CARMEL'S SISTER CITIES
Tell the story of your city and life through images that share your imagination and a voiced recording that reflects on your creation.
September 2025
Bringing the World to Carmel and Carmel to the World
2025 Participating Sister Cities:*
Kawachinagano, Osaka, Japan
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Jelgava, Zemgale, Latvia
* Only children between 5 and 18 years of age who live in these three cities may submit art to this competition in 2025.
Submission Themes:
Iconic Buildings - Architecture that Inspires my City
Favorite Imaginative Creature
The Future of Transportation
Prizes:
Named International Artists of the Month for October
Art displayed in the Children's Art Gallery in October
Special Art Exhibit during Carmel's International Art Festival (CIAF)
Chance for art to travel to other museums and galleries across the United States
And more!
Guidelines:
Must be 5 - 18 years of age by September 1, 2025
Submissions will be accepted from May 19, 2025 - September 20, 2025
Winners will be announced at the Carmel International Arts Festival
on September 28, 2025.
All submissions must be made digitally via the Memby app.
Priority will be given to submissions that include a voiced narrative by the artist reflecting on what they made.
Students can make up to 3 submissions.
How to Submit:
1. Download the free Memby app
5. Give the art or story a Title
2. Upload your art into the app.
(if you're adding a
reflection, submit after you save or update after you enter the reflection)
3. Add the student's name
(first is fine) and birthdate.
4. Under Memby Museum Click "Children's Art Gallery"
Add a Reflection:
A reflection is the artist sharing the story behind what they've created. In the era of AI, it is this human connection of experience behind art that separates computer-generated art from what is made by people. We will share these reflections with the art through our digital gallery.
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1. Click "audio note" to add your reflection.
2. Save or update your submission if you've already submitted once
A reflection can be very short and answers core questions that people have when seeing art:
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What inspired you?
Why did you make this?
What did you feel when creating it?
How did the art challenge you?
Reflections can be submitted via the Memby app.
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