NAHS Art Challenges

We are thrilled to continue the NAHS Conference Art Competions. Each attending chapter can participate in any of the following events. We have limited the number of participants for each event due to space.

If your team doesn’t have enough members, then members can participate in multiple events, but you will need to check the time of the events to make sure your students are not registered to compete in more than one competition at the same time.

This event is meant to be a fun experience for all. There will be judges but what is most important is that the students feel that their artwork is valued. In the spirit of competition, we have created rules and rubrics for each event.

We must respect the space and make sure each event is cleaned up by our student participants. Please make sure your students are behaving responsibly. 

UWG MASCOT TABLE DECORATION CHALLENGE

This is a team event. NAHS Chapters will create one 3D replica of the UWG Mascot "Wolfie". You can turn in the mascot during registration on Friday, 1/31 in the morning. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Saturday!

Points from this competition will be utilized in case of a tie-breaker. 

Art Challenge #1: JUNK TO FUNK" FASHION COMPETITION

This is a team event. Details for the competition will be provided to each chapter immediately following the Welcome on Friday night.  You do not want to miss out on the fun!

Points from this competition will be utilized in case of a tie-breaker. 

FACE-TO-FACE PORTRAIT COMPETITION ROUND 1: Black and White Drawings

Students from each team will compete a single elimination competition in which they will literally face off in short face-to-face portraiture heats.  Contestants will create the drawing in minutes to render the clearest most expressive likeness of the artist across from them. Entries will be judged immediately upon completion at which time one artist will move on and one will be eliminated. Heat winners will advance toward the final until one artist remains.  The four artists who remain up to this point will be runners-up and awarded points that correlate to their finishing placement as determined by the judge(s).

1. 20 minute heat

2. 15 minute heat

3. 10 minute heat

Participants: Up to 5 individually competing artists per chapter

Provided Materials/Supplies: white paper, HB and ebony pencils, erasers - pink & kneaded, ballpoint pens, rollerball pens, sharpies

EXQUISITE CORPSE Team Competition

A game in which each participant takes turns writing or drawing on a sheet of paper, folding it to conceal his or her contribution, and then passing it to the next player for a further contribution. The game gained popularity in artistic circles during the 1920s when it was adopted as a technique by artists of the Surrealist movement to generate collaborative compositions. 

Participants play by taking turns drawing sections of a body on a sheet of paper, folded to hide each individual contribution. The first player adds a head—then, without knowing what that head looks like, the next artist adds a torso, and so on. In this way, a strange, comical, often grotesque creature is born. Players certainly do not have to stick to traditional representations of the body.

Each person in the group will start with a paper that will be passed to the right every 10 minutes until the 4 sections of each drawing are completed.  

1. 10 minutes for the "head"

2. 10 minutes for the "upper body"

3. 10 minutes for the "lower body"

4. 10 minutes for the "base"

The team will then decide which of the artworks they wish to submit for judging. Artworks will be judged at the end and winners will be announced at the Awards Luncheon on Saturday.

Participants: 2 - 4 team members per chapter

Provided Materials/Supplies: folded white paper, HB and ebony pencils, erasers - pink & kneaded, ballpoint pens, rollerball pens, sharpies, color pencils

NAHS COLLAGE Competition

A collage is any art or "assemblage" made of  "different forms, thus creating a new whole."  Collages can be made of newspaper clipping, photos, ribbons, "found objects" or almost anything attached to a canvas. 

The Collage Theme: Tell us what NAHS means to YOU.

Do not begin until told to do so.  Each team will have 45 minutes to work collaboratively on their collages. 

Collages will be judged at the end and winners will be announced at the Awards Luncheon on Saturday.

Participants: 2 - 4 team members per chapter

Provided Materials/Supplies: Railroad board surface, collage fodder, various adhesives... teams are encouraged to bring their own collage supplies as well.

ON SITE DRAWING ROUND 1: Still Life

​​The theme of this competition is STILL LIFE. This includes the art of commonplace objects which are either natural, such as food, flowers, plants, rocks, shells, and even dead animals, or artificial ones, such as books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc. 

Students will choose their point of view for a large centralized still life. Figurative and abstract ideas in any drawing media will be acceptable. 

Do not begin until told to do so.  You will have 45 minutes to work on your still life. Completed artworks will be judged at the end and winners will be announced at the Awards Luncheon on Saturday.

Participants: Up to 5 individually competing artists per chapter

Provided Materials/Supplies: Basic drawing supplies will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring their own supplies as well.  This is a DRAWING competition, so artworks will be judged on drawing skills. 

FACE-TO-FACE PORTRAIT COMPETITION ROUND 2: Colored Drawings

Students from each team will compete a single elimination competition in which they will literally face off in short face-to-face portraiture heats. Contestants will create the drawing in minutes to render the clearest most expressive likeness of the artist across from them. Entries will be judged immediately upon completion at which time one artist will move on and one will be eliminated. Heat winners will advance toward the final until one artist remains. The four artists who remain up to this point will be runners-up and awarded points that correlate to their finishing placement as determined by the judge(s).

• 20 minute heat

• 15 minute heat

• 10 minute heat

Participants: Up to 5 individually competing artists per chapter.

Winners will be announced at the Awards Luncheon on Saturday.

Provided Materials/Supplies: white paper, colored pencils, erasers - pink & kneaded, ballpoint pens, rollerball pens, sharpies 

ON SITE DRAWING ROUND 2: Figure Drawing

Students will draw from a model. Since figure drawing is a cornerstone of many types of art, there will be 3 different types of figure drawing. Individual students compete in each of three heats.

1. 5 Minute Heat - Gesture drawing: Gesture is good for showing the mass and pose of the model, as well as setting proportions. (Pencil, pen or charcoal)

2. 15 Minute Heat - Proportion and Form: For this drawing, the focus should be on capturing proportions but also in using value to create form. Realism is the key to this drawing, and creating a composition with part of the model is a great way to create interest as well as show precision in drawing. (Pencil or charcoal)

3. 20 Minute Heat - Mood and Expression: In addition to capturing the model's pose and proportions, this drawing should also express some mood or meaning through the marks that are used to create the model and/or color. Composition is  also an integral component to this drawing. (Pencil, pen, charcoal, chalk pastels, &/or markers)

Participants: Up to 5 individually competing artists per chapter

Provided Materials/Supplies: newsprint and white paper, HB and ebony pencils, erasers - pink & kneaded, compressed charcoal, vine charcoal, chalk pastels, ballpoint pens, rollerball pens, sharpies

FOUND OBJECT SCULPTURE - Team Competition

Students will use every object they collect at the beginning of the competition AND any "found objects" the choose to bring with them. 

• Innovate and find new ways of making. Try marrying or connecting 2 to 3 objects, or changing at least 50% of an object to transform it into something new.

  1. 1. • Composition: Did they compose or arrange and or assemble the objects in an interesting way?

        • Creativity: is the sculpture inventive and expressive? Did the artists create the work in an imaginative way? Is the work inspiring conceptually or formally?

• Write a bit about your sculpture. Does your artwork have a theme or message? Does it have a function? Make sure to tell us a little bit about it and give it a title!

Do not begin until told to do so.  Each team will have 45 minutes to work collaboratively on their assemblages. 

Assemblages will be judged at the end and winners will be announced at the Awards Luncheon on Saturday.

Participants: 2 - 4 team members per chapter

Provided Materials/Supplies: Random objects and surfaces to create on will be supplied... teams are encouraged to bring their own fodder and found objects as well.

ON SITE PAINTING: Watercolor Still Life

​​The theme of this competition is STILL LIFE. This includes the art of common place objects which are either natural, such as food, flowers, plants, rocks, shells, and even dead animals, or artificial ones, such as books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc. 

Students will choose their point of view for a large centralized still life. Figurative and abstract ideas in watercolor only. 

Do not begin until told to do so.  You will have 45 minutes to work on your still life. Completed artworks will be judged at the end and winners will be announced at the Awards Luncheon on Saturday.

Participants: Up to 5 individually competing artists per chapter

Provided Materials/Supplies: Basic painting supplies will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring their own supplies as well.  This is a PAINTING competition, so artworks will be judged on painting skills. 

ART HISTORY SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION 

GAEA-NAHS Art History Scholarship 

Date: Saturday, January 19, 2024

Time: 10:30 - 11:30 am

Highest Score will receive $150 scholarship.

ART HISTORY EXAM

• Sign-up for the exam ends on Friday, January 5, 2024.

• Participating students will take a timed multiple choice test covering Art Throughout History.

• Scores on the art history exam will determine the recipient of this award. 

• The 60-minute timed exam will take place on Friday at the Brenau University Downtown Center.  

• Start time to be 10:30 am.

Scholarship winners will receive a plaque.

OUTSIDE HUMANITIES BLDG: High School Mascot Sidewalk Chalk Challenge

​​The theme of this competition is for students to recreate there High School Mascot using sidewalk chalk outside of the humanities building. You are welcome to bring sketches with you in preparation for this event

Do not begin until told to do so.  You will have 90 minutes to work on your still life. Completed artworks will be judged at the end and winners will be announced at the Awards Luncheon on Saturday.

Participants: Up to 5-9 artists per chapter

Provided Materials/Supplies: Basic chalk supplies will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring their own supplies as well.  This is a DRAWING competition, so artworks will be judged on drawing skills.