SkyDay Fridays is an art competition in which your students ages 15 - 18yrs engage their peers worldwide by creating an online art exhibition about their relationship to climate and sky. Students have three months (September 1 - November 30, 2022) to create one of three projects which they then post to their sky gallery. Posting is easy. Student total time commitment is about 3 hours. All you do is sign them up for a free sky gallery and then send them to this page where they have everything they need to have an awesome creative experience together.
What are the projects?
Check them out here: skydayproject.com/students
Is entry free? Yes
Is the online gallery free? Yes
How should we name our sky gallery? Up to you.
Are you selling anything? No. Everything SkyDay offers is a free as the sky itself. That’s how we roll.
Is SkyDay Fridays for Science Classes or Art Classes?
SkyDay Fridays is for science teachers who value integrating art into their classroom and for art
teachers who care about the environment.
What is a suitable group size?
Each group needs a teacher/group leader and we suggest at least 7 student artists. Could be a class, an after school club or another group. Judging will be based on imagination and creativity, not quantity of images.
What are my responsibilities as teacher/group leader?
You sign your group up for a sky gallery and send your students to skydayproject.com/sdf-students where they will find everything they need. Then it’s up to you. You might encourage them from time to time. You might choose to make the projects part of their grade.
I’m excited! How do we sign up?
First review our competition rules. Then sign up using this form and we’ll create for you a free online art gallery in SkyDay Project which will be live on September 1st, 2021. They then have three months to create their exhibition. The rest is up to them!
How will you choose the winners?
Groups that successfully complete all three projects will be entered to win. SkyDay team members, led by artist and SkyDay Executive Director Ben Whitehouse, will review all qualified entries and determine which galleries in their opinion deserve the awards and which galleries deserve to be highlighted on our website and in our messaging. All decisions of the judges will be final. Teachers of the winning galleries will be notified by email the first week of December.
What are the prizes?