2020 RAILROAD LEDGER ART Project

SPONSOR:  South Dakota State Railroad Museum Ltd.
ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS:  All accredited South Dakota schools with grades 4-8 and grades 9-12 or grades 4-8 or grades 9-12; all art teachers in accredited South Dakota schools
RAILROAD DISPATCH REPORT PAGES:  SDSRM will provide up to 100 pages with one page per student category and one page per teacher category; no more than four pages per school
district upon special request


ENTRY CATEGORIES:  

• Student art projects in Grades 4-8 and Grades 9-12
• Art teacher

CRITERIA FOR ART PROJECTS

• Art will be submitted to the SDSRM on the railroad dispatch report ledger pages.
• Any media may be used, e.g. oil, water color, charcoal, collage, etc.
• Grades 4-8 the subject must relate to railroads
• Grades 9-12 and art teacher the subject must relate to South Dakota history or culture
• A whole page may be used or the page could be separated into smaller pieces.
• The art may be by an individual student or group of students or an individual art teacher.
• The art teacher will determine how to organize the art project.  For example, the teacher may want a number of students to complete art work on paper and then select the art that will be completed on the ledger page.
• Each school will determine how to select up to three art projects the in each grade category that is submitted to the SDSRM for judging and possible exhibit.  For example, the art teacher(s) may decide or the school may select judges to determine.

SELECTION PROCESS FOR PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS  

• Notification sent by September 6, 2019 via email by SD Art Educators Association to all art educators on its mailing list and available on SDSRM website home page
• Application for participation sent via email to SDSRM by September 27, 2019 (sdsrrm@gmail.com) 
• SDSRM selects approximately 50 participating schools in category grades 4-8 and 50 in category 9-12 and notifies selected schools via email by October 7, 2019 
• Schools may be selected to participate in one or both grade categories
• Selection process will balance schools related to size and geographic distribution
• School agreement to participate sent via email to SDSRM by October 21, 2019
• Names of all participating schools will be on the SDSRM website.
• Acknowledgements will be sent to all schools that apply.

TIMELINE      

• Ledger pages mailed or delivered to schools upon selection to participate
• Student art projects completed Fall 2018 school term 
• Student art project entries submitted to SDSRM by January 31, 2020 along with permission signed by each student’s parent to display and sell the art project
• SDSRM notifies school representative via email when entry and permission received
• Judging completed by March 16, 2020; 2 or 3 judges will be selected by the SDSRM 
• Art Exhibit in Hill City May 8, 2020 (Mother’s Day Weekend and Art Extravaganza in Hill City)

ART EXHIBIT IN HILL CITY

• 20 art projects in each student category selected for exhibit
• Number of art teacher projects for exhibit will be determined by the number of teachers submitting work
• 1st ($100), 2nd ($50), and 3rd ($25) prizes and ribbons in each category awarded to students; judges may choose to award honorable mention; if a winning art is by more than one student, the award funds are divided among them
• Art will be backed and shrink wrapped for display
• Exhibit will be held at the South Dakota State Railroad Museum from May through October of 2020
• Art for exhibit will be displayed on the SDSRM website
• Student art for the exhibit will be for sale with funds split 50% to the student artist(s) and 50% of the sale divided among them
• Art teachers will specify if their work is for sale or not; if for sale the teacher specifies the sale price  with funds split 50% for the art teacher and 50% to the SDSRM to fund the next Ledger Art Project in 2021
• If the school, teacher or student wants art that is not sold to be returned, they must pay postage.

RAILROAD DISPATCH REPORT PAGES -
LEDGER ART PARTICIPATION APPLICATION  2020


SPONSOR:  South Dakota State Railroad Museum Ltd.
ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS:  All accredited South Dakota schools with grades 4-8 and grades 9-12 or grades


4-8 or grades 9-12; all art teachers in accredited South Dakota schools


NAME OF SCHOOL DISTRICT _________________________________________________


ENTRY CATEGORY (may select one or both)
    ______________Grades 4-8
    ______________Grades 9-12

    ______________Teacher




NAME OF ART TEACHER ___________________________________________________
ART TEACHER’S EMAIL_____________________________________________________


Copy, paste and email form to South Dakota State Railroad Museum sdsrrm@gmail.com
or phone 605-574-9000.


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And our 2020 entries are ...