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    Santa Monica Mountains

    National Recreation Area California

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Art in the Digital Age Contest!

Art Contest Flyer graphic - 5 circles with different colors of different sizes surrounding 4 circles with various park landscapes in them. The words Art in the Digital Age Contest are along the bottom of the graphic beneath the circles.

Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to have your art work displayed at our new Interagency Visitor Center this spring!

YOU could be highlighted in a future edition of the Outdoors!

High School and college students are invited to use their digital creativity to depict their Santa Monica Mountains experience.

Submissions will be accepted from April 1 - May 1, 2013.

Winners will be announced on May 18 at the Interagency Visitor Center at King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas.

Basic Rules

  • Ages 13 - 22 are eligible to enter the contest
  • All entries must be sumbitted in one of the following formats:

Adobe .PDF
Quicktime .MOV
MPEG-4 / MP4

  • Video MUST be submitted via CD or DVD. Disks will not be returned and will become property of the National Park Service.
  • PDF files can be submitted via e-mail but are limited to 5 MB in size.
  • Video length can be no longer than 2 minutes.
  • Names should not be visible on artwork - we will digitally add artist credit after they are judged.

Please download the rules, regulations, and entry form for the contest below.

Art in the Digital Age Contest Rules, Regulations, and Entry Form

Map of the Santa Monica Mountains Zone

Address to Submit Entries

Electronically:

samophoto@nps.gov

By Mail:

Digital Art Contest
National Park Service
401 West Hillcrest Drive
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360

In Person:

Interagency Visitor Center
26876 Mulholland Highway
Calabasas, CA 91302

For More Information

Please contact us if you have any questions. A ranger will get back to you soon.

Did You Know?

Rangers from California State Parks and the National Park Service discuss program ideas.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area was established in 1978, but the National Park Service did not own public parkland in the area until 1980.  National Park Rangers devised clever ways to promote the national park goals without land by creating thriving partnerships with many agencies.