Sec. Naig Invites Students to Enter ‘24 Choose Iowa Calendar Contest
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig invites school-aged Iowa students up to 18-years-old to participate in the 2024 Choose Iowa Calendar Contest.
Naig says, “The Choose Iowa Calendar Contest is a fun way to showcase the importance of Iowa agriculture to all consumers while also recognizing some of our state’s most creative and artistic students and have them published in our popular statewide Choose Iowa calendar.”
Submitted artwork should feature at least one aspect of Iowa agriculture, with an emphasis on food, livestock or crop production. Submissions will be judged on creativity and connections to agriculture in everyday life and are due by June 3rd.
Secretary Naig will recognize the winning artists during a special awards ceremony August 13th at the 2024 Iowa State Fair. Winning submissions will also be included in the 2024/2025 Choose Iowa calendar distributed by the Department during the Iowa State Fair and online at ChooseIowa.com.
Last year, Charles City’s Madelynn Kehret was one of 16 Iowa students whose artwork is featured in the 2023-2024 Choose Iowa Coloring Calendar.
*More details below:
School-aged Iowa students up to 18-years-old are invited to participate in the contest. Pictures should be drawn on plain white, 8.5 by 11-inch paper in a horizontal orientation using only black lines. The pictures should not be colored in. For creative inspiration, previous calendars may be viewed here.
Entries can be submitted via the form found on the Choose Iowa website, emailed to [email protected] or mailed to the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Attn: Coloring Calendar, 502 E. 9th St., Des Moines, Iowa, 50319. Each submission should include the registration sheet also found at chooseiowa.com/kids-teachers with basic information about the artist, including the artist’s name, age, grade, school, hometown as well as the name, email and phone number of a parent or guardian. If the artwork is submitted by the student’s teacher, then the teacher’s name and contact information should be included.
To be eligible for consideration, artwork submissions must be received by the Department by June 3, 2024.
