For the Love of Automobiles & How to Enter

For our 2025 art contest, we are asking students to create a picture that expresses their love of the automobile. It can be the automobile as a whole or parts of an automobile. What do you love about the automobile? What is it about the automobile that makes you happy? How can you incorporate your love of the automobile into your drawing? The drawing can be real-life or abstract.

Rules & Guidelines for Artwork Submissions

  1. Entry must be original artwork created by the student, showcasing what they love about the automobile. Artwork cannot be a copy or reproduction of someone else’s work. No copyright material or images may be used. Please do not use any auto brand, symbol or name in your artwork.
  2. Only one entry per student. The student artist must be a resident or and currently attending an elementary or secondary school in Michigan.
  3. Your original artwork will not be required for entry although we may ask for the original artwork for the art gallery.
  4. A digital image of your artwork is required to submit your creation for the art contest.
    1. Must represent your love of the automobile
    2. Should be drawn or sketched using pencils, crayons, markers, paint or other similar materials on minimum 8.5” x 11” paper (maximum 11” x 17”).
    3. Must be able to be converted to a digital format for submission (scanned as a high-resolution digital file)
    4. Must be in a file size that is a minimum 300 DPI
    5. Cannot be a photograph or a digitally enhanced artwork
    6. Cannot contain or infer profanity or vulgar images, language or references
    7. Cannot contain political messages
    8. Cannot utilize any auto brand, symbol or name in the artwork

    General Rules & Guidelines

    1. Only Foundation Club Members can sponsor a student’s artwork entry in the contest.
    2. Only one entry per student.
    3. Foundation Club Members can sponsor multiple students but each student entry must have an application completed online. Once each application is submitted, the sponsoring club member will receive the Application Confirmation email that will be sent from TheMeemicFoundation@Meemic.com This email is important as it will contain bot the Student’s unique identification number and the link that must be used to submit the student’s artwork.
    4. The Authorization and Liability Release Form will be attached to the Application Confirmation email. That form must be completed, signed by the student’s parent or legal guardian, and returned to the Foundation Club Member who is to electronically submit the form with the digital artwork file.
    5. For the Foundation Club Member’s convenience, an informational document has been developed that the Club Member can provide to the student artist to inform their parents/guardian about the contest. This document will be attached to the Application Confirmation email.
    6. Entries must be electronically submitted through the link provided in the Application Confirmation email, along with the signed Authorization and Liability Release Form, by Wednesday December 31, 2025, to have their work eligible for judging. No entries will be accepted after that date.
    7. Up to 25 winners will be selected. Winning entries will be announced by Monday February 16, 2026
    8. Winning entries will receive:
      1. For the Student Artist:
        • Amazon Fire Tablet
        • Personalized Certificate of Appreciation
        • Invitation to participate in our Art Gallery Celebration
      2. For the Club Member:
        • $500 for your school (regardless of the number of winning student entries you sponsored). If the Club Member is not employed with a school, the $500 prize will go to the student artist’s school.
    9. All student artists that submit an eligible entry will receive a PDF certificate of Appreciation for their entry.
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