{"id":273024,"date":"2026-08-27T05:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273024\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T05:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:12:28","slug":"pittsburgh-parks-conservancy-hosts-allegheny-county-youth-art-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273024\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy hosts Allegheny County youth art contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allegheny County students are being invited to put their creativity on display and share how they experience the natural world through the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy\u2019s inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghparks.org\/drawn-to-nature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drawn to Nature Art Contest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The contest is open to students in kindergarten through 12th grade from now until Oct. 24. This year\u2019s theme, \u201cMy Place in Nature,\u201d asks students to create a two-dimensional work inspired by a special outdoor scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s inviting young people to draw a space, whether it\u2019s in their backyard or local park or a schoolyard,\u201d said James Brown, director of education and the Frick Environmental Center. \u201cIt could be an animal in that space, or they can draw themselves in that space in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students will have their work judged in four categories: creativity and originality, thematic alignment, elements of art and craftsmanship, care and attention to detail and artistic statement.<\/p>\n<p>Finalists will have their artwork featured in the Frick Environmental Center Art Gallery, which hosts regular exhibitions by local artists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn cities and in urban areas, we think of nature as this sort of thing that\u2019s outside the city or away from us. It\u2019s separate from us, and art invites connection,\u201d Brown said. \u201cWe wanted people to celebrate that through art making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accepted mediums include acrylics, pastels, pencil, watercolor, oil paints, crayons, markers and digitally created work. Contest rules dictate that digitally created works must be entirely original and may not include any photographs or media created or owned by someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Artwork must be the original work of the youth artist. Assistance from parents, guardians, teachers \u2014 and artificial intelligence \u2014 is not allowed.<\/p>\n<p>Brown said he sees the youth contest as a way to recognize young artists and bring the arts and environmental communities together.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy already works with more than 20 schools through partnerships with Pittsburgh Public Schools and Propel Schools. It is promoting the contest through teachers, administrators, after-school organizations, summer camps and families.<\/p>\n<p>Submissions are open until 8 p.m. on Oct., 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allegheny County students are being invited to put their creativity on display and share how they experience the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-273024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}