[Gradschool] Opportunity for Art Students

[Wisner, Liza]

LIFE AND WORK ON THE MOON: WHAT IMAGES COME TO MIND?

A new NASA contest encourages university art and design
students to partner with science and engineering departments to create
art representative of living and working on the moon. The goal is for
students in the arts, science and engineering to collaboratively engage
in NASA's mission to return humans to the moon by 2020, and eventually
journey on to Mars and other destinations in the solar system.

The Advanced Planning and Partnership Office at NASA's Langley Research
Center in Hampton, Va., is sponsoring the "Life and Work on the Moon"
contest. Winners will receive cash prizes up to $1,000. 
Winning artwork also will be exhibited online and across the country. 


Students in architecture, industrial design, computer design, the fine
arts and other disciplines are invited to submit entries in one of three
categories: two-dimensional art, three-dimensional art or digital art.
To ensure artistic concepts reflect the realities of the harsh lunar
environment, art students are strongly encouraged to consult with
science and engineering students and use NASA's online resources.

A volunteer panel of judges will represent NASA, other government
agencies, universities, industry and the professional art community. 
Judges will evaluate artistic qualities and whether the entry depicts a
valid scenario in the context of the lunar environment.

In sponsoring the contest, NASA hopes to encourage more collaboration
among scientists and engineers and the artistic and creative
communities. Such collaboration may generate new ideas for living and
working in extra-terrestrial environments, resulting in more successful
long-duration space missions.

Winners of the contest will be offered the opportunity to exhibit their
work in NASA facilities and science museums. An online public gallery
will be available through a partnership with NASA's Classroom of the
Future, maintained by the Wheeling Jesuit University Center for
Educational Technologies in Wheeling, W. Va., and the Christopher
Newport University Institute for Science Education in Newport News, Va.
Christopher Newport University will provide cash awards for top prizes.

Entries are due no later than December 1, 2007, and results will be
announced in February 2008. A high school version of this contest is
planned for the spring of 2008.

For more details about the contest, including NASA's resources about the
moon, visit:

http://artcontest.larc.nasa.gov 

For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

	
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Aug. 23, 2007

Sonja Alexander
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1761
sonja.r.alexander at nasa.gov

Keith Henry
Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.
757-864-6120/344-7211
h.k.henry at nasa.gov

RELEASE: 07-179