Art For Homeschool

I have been wanting to have a student show online for a really long time. I started the Art For Homeschool Student Group on Flickr.com for that purpose.

The Art For Homeschool Art Show will take place four times per year. The shows will be in February, May, August, and November. To make it easier to remember, the deadline will always be the 1st of the month and the awards will be given out by the 15th of the month. So far Dick Blick Art Materials has graciously donated 3 $10 gift certificates for the three age groups in all the art shows. I am looking for more donations. If you would like to donate, let me know.

Some of the art shows will have a theme. At the moment only two dimensional work can be entered in the shows.

Here are the steps to follow so that you and your child can participate in the Art For Homeschool Art Show:

1. Subscribe to my blog, Art For Homeschool, through email. That way I will have a record of your email and can send out notices about the upcoming shows. You can use the same subscriber email address for two or more children.

2. Get an account with Flickr.com. That is where all the art work is uploaded and kept as a group. You can use one flickr account for your whole family.

3. Upload your child’s artwork to your flickr account. Put tags on the artwork. The tags would be: “Art For Homeschool”, Theme of the show, Your Child’s Name (It can be only his first name if that is what you wish.), Child’s age, Title of artwork, and the medium used to create the artwork.

Example:

Art For Homeschool
My Favorite Things
Name
Age
Title
Medium

Note: Flickr requires you to put quotation marks before and after tags with more than one word. Knowing this will save you a lot of grief. I know from experience!

4. Join the Art For Homeschool Student Group. To join the group please click Join Group and include the contact email address used when you subscribed to Art For Homeschool. Access will be granted for you to post photos of your work to this group.  It may take a day or so depending on if I am near the computer.

Here is the link to the flickr group. http://www.flickr.com/groups/artforhomeschool/

5. Add photo of artwork to the flickr group. It must be added on or before the art show deadline date. This is done by going to the link above and clicking on “Add Photos”. It is to the right of the words “Group Pool”. You pick the photo of the artwork you already uploaded to your account.

Any homeschool student 5 through 18 years old can enter the art show. Two entries are allowed. There are three age groups; 5 – 8 years, 9 – 13 years, and 14 – 18 years old.  During the year students can add other artwork that is not in the show to the group just to share.

I have had request for a parent category so all you homeschool parents can also join the AFH Flickr group and participate in the art show. Prizes will not be given in the parent category. Sorry, parents!  Tags for parents would be slightly different.  Tags would look like this:

Art For Homeschool Parent
Theme
Name
Title
Medium

I think this is going to be fun!