The 15th Annual TrashedArt Contest at the Mercer County Library System celebrates Earth Day by encouraging patrons to turn ordinary trash into extraordinary art!
The Mercer County Library System in New Jersey is hosting their 15th Annual TrashedArt Contest. The Contest celebrates Earth Day by encouraging patrons to turn ordinary trash into extraordinary art. Accepted artwork is on display at Mercer County Library System branches throughout the month of March and April.
Adults and teens (ages 14 and up) who live, work or go to school in Mercer County are eligible to participate. Entries are original artwork. Any art medium is acceptable, as long as a minimum of 75% recycled content is used. Some examples of recycled content include metals, paper, rubber, glass (but no sharp shards), plastic and cloth. The contest is limited to one entry per artist. Please see https://mcl.org/events/trashedart/ for details.
The Grand Prize winners in first, second and third place for adults, first place in a special student category, and People's Choice award winners will be announced at the TrashedArt Contest Reception at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch on Tuesday, April 23rd at 6:30pm.
Entries are anonymously judged by local artists and representatives of the Mercer County Library System on creativity, originality and artistic merit. Patrons will have a chance to vote for the "People's Choice" awards in-person at each of the nine branches and virtually on the Mercer County Library System website.
This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Library Ewing Branch, Friends of the Hickory Corner Library, Friends of the Hopewell Library, Friends of the Lawrence Library, and Friends of the West Windsor Library. The Friends help support programs at the library branches, including the Summer Reading Program.
For more information about the TrashedArt Contest and all the library's programs and events, please visit www.mcl.org.
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Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy
Librarian
University of Cincinnati Main Campus - Cincinnati, OH
She/Her/Hers
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