Audubon Society art contest

Writing and visual arts contest for Audubon Society Berners Bay Cruise

Juneau Audubon Society is looking for original art work on the theme “Birds, Wildlife, or conservation of Berners Bay.” Submit entries electronically by email before by April 18, 2016 to education@juneau-audubon-society.org. Six winners will be chosen on April 25, 2016. Essays, poems, outdoor photographs, photographs or your original drawings/paintings or sculpture all accepted. Size limit 1000 words or 5 Mb. Submit up to four entries, but each artist can only win one ticket. Youth entries are welcome; please include age. Include your name and contact information with the entry. (JAS will not share personal information). Winning works will be published once in the JAS Newsletter “The Raven;” artist retains all other rights to the work. Trip to Berners Bay is April 30 with Allen Marine, leaving Statter Harbor (below DeHart’s Auke Bay) at 8:30 a.m. It will last about four hours. Tickets at Hearthside Books.

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