January 2021 Poster Design Contest

Inspire the defense of American liberty through art!

We invite you to enter this free patriotic contest to inspire devotion to American liberty! Graphic design, fine art, photography, cartoons, word-art, and any other media is welcomed. We hope that you’ll submit a poster to inspire, convict, and promote the love and defense of American liberty. It’s free, and you might win a cash prize! Even if you feel your design won’t win, it will help inspire others in their love of American liberty.

If you’re just interested in submitting a quick poster without entering the contest, you can email it to LibertyAndThePursuit@protonmail.com and not read any further. But hey, you might as well enter the contest, so…..

This year we have seen the government tell us that it would sparingly parcel out our liberty to us and determine our values for us – telling us it will decide when and where we can enjoy our constitutional rights, that it has the right to order us to be imprisoned at home without a warrant, to have our businesses seized without compensation, to be forbidden from assembling peacefully or practicing our religion together. Government told us that it would decide for us what is essential and what is not. And through this, we have seen a social willingness (by some) to willingly surrender this precious liberty to the government. But we have also seen Americans of all stripes realize the importance of their freedoms and their rights. Those Americans are inspired to live out their rights to assemble, to worship, to open their business, and to otherwise defend their Constitutional rights against government overreach, despite attempts to shame, bully, and restrict them from doing so. Governments have always had the tendency to not “trust” their citizens with liberty, and there is much work left to be done before our rights are fully respected.

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet,” Patrick Henry famously said, “As to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty – or give me death!” As he said this, Patrick Henry plunged a dagger toward his own chest as if to kill himself if he could not have the liberty to practice his God-given rights. Americans have always known that our rights and freedoms are priceless, precious, and essential!

But it doesn’t require suicide or self-destruction to defend American liberty and the Bill of Rights. People can faithfully educate others, engage in conversation, contact their elected officials, host peaceful assemblies, organize together for sustained strategic action plans, and hold intense yet lawful protests to demand that government respect America’s Bill of Rights and liberties. There are lots of ways to defend liberty at the local level.

Show your feelings and thoughts by creating a poster to inspire others! And while you’re at it, we hope you’ll realize more than ever the importance of continuing to defend American liberty… and the freedoms guaranteed to us by the Bill of Rights.

POSTER GUIDELINES AND SCORING MATRIX

ART THEME:
Choose from the following themes, or we encourage you to make your own theme:
– “American Liberty is Worth the Risk”
– “Defending Constitutional Rights Today”
– “Standing Up for American Liberty Against its Domestic Enemies”

Your poster does NOT need to contain any of the words above, or any words at all, but it can.

FOUR AGE BRACKETS:
Everyone can submit their poster design! Please tell us your age category when you submit it.
– Eleven-years old and under
– Twelve to 16-years old
– 17-years old to Adult
– “Family” (Parents and kids work together – please include ages of kids)

SCORING MATRIX:
– Technical skill (10 points)
– Emotional impact (10 points)
– Clarity of message; focused on defending the exercise of American rights and/or liberty. (20 points)
– Moral values / wholesomeness (5 points)
– Juror’s overall impression (10 points)

SELECTION OF WINNERS, CASH PRIZES

HONORABLE MENTION: All submissions that are judged as worth our “honorable mention” category will be displayed on this website, and on our FB page (under construction). Please indicate how you would like your name credited to you. By submitting your poster design you give permission for others to share it, print it, and display it for non-commercial purposes. It is our hope that some newspapers or blogs will also publish a selection of the winning works.

SECOND PLACE: Second-place winners will be displayed more prominently on the website.

FIRST PLACE: First-place in each bracket will receive a $25 money order, or a $25 gift certificate to a local privately-owned restaurant. These gift certificates will be bought by the art contest to support the business. Each first place will be displayed most prominently on this website.

Note:

Please be sure to submit a high quality photo or upload of the poster design.
You may use a pen name or just a first name for the public display of your work, but we do need to know to whom we should give the gift card / money prize if you win First Place. (You may remain anonymous if you wish).
Work must be family-friendly and suitable for public display.
The issue is Liberty from government overreach, not necessarily particular policy. The idea of liberty is being free from government coercion; free to make one’s own decisions; free to practice one’s rights without interference.
A theological epistemology (such as in the Declaration of Independence) is welcomed but not required or given extra points.

This endeavor is motivated entirely by a desire to promote the love of liberty and the conviction that liberty is worth risk.

Submissions must be submitted to LibertyAndThePursuit@protonmail.com
Remember to provide:
– The theme to your work (you can use one of ours above, or create your own),
– The title of your work (if you have one)
– How you wish your name to be attributed
– What age category to which you belong.

DEADLINE: Before midnight on January 23rd, 2021.

We’ll be having an essay and video-advertisement contest at a later date. You can email us to ask to be placed on our email list!

Good luck, and stay safe… or stay appropriately dangerous – we’re all individuals who can make our own decisions!