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Calling All Marin Student Artists!

Be part of Ember Stomp 2025

Ember Stomp Art Contest

If you’re a Marin student in kindergarten through 12th grade, this is your chance to share your creativity—and be recognized in a big way. Winners get the spotlight at Ember Stomp and a keepsake print of their art to take home.

Submit your artwork by August 8 for a chance to help inspire fire-smart choices – and be celebrated as a creative voice in Marin.

The 2025 art contest is all about this year’s theme:

What We Love, We Protect: A Creative Journey Toward a Fire-Safe Marin

This theme is your chance to show what you love about where you live—and how you can help keep it safe from wildfires. Whether it’s your favorite tree, your school, your backyard, or your whole neighborhood, we want to see how you would protect the places that matter most.

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Do you have a great idea to help your friends, family, or neighbors stay safe from wildfires? Now’s your chance to be a wildfire safety messenger!

Your challenge:
 Design a colorful and creative poster that teaches people how to prevent wildfires or protect their homes.

Your poster can include a catchy slogan like:

  • “Trim trees so flames can’t jump!”
  • “Goats eat grass so fire can’t.”
  • “Fire loves leaf piles. Don’t let them stay.”
  • “Clear space so flames don’t move in.”

Who helps keep us safe from wildfires? It’s not just firefighters—there are all kinds of wildfire heroes!

Your challenge:
Draw a wildfire prevention hero—someone or something that helps stop wildfires before they start.

Your hero could be:

  • A neighbor raking leaves
  • A teacher who teaches fire safety
  • A goat gobbling up dry grass
  • A tree that gives cool shade and is trimmed so it doesn’t catch fire
  • A family working together to keep everything clean and safe
  • Even a flying squirrel with a water pack!

Be silly or serious—just be creative!
Give your hero fun tools, cool outfits, or magical powers that help prevent wildfires. You can make up your own hero or draw someone you know!

Need ideas? Visit www.firesafemarin.org with a grown-up to learn more.



Imagine you’re the boss of your own backyard! But there’s one important rule: your yard needs to be fire-smart. That means it helps keep your home and neighborhood safe from wildfire.

What does that look like? A fire-smart yard can have:

  •   Colorful flowers in clay pots
  •   Rocks, pebbles, and stone paths around the house that don’t burn
  •   Big, beautiful trees with space between them
  •   Bushes and plants that are not too close together

Now it’s your turn!

Draw a picture of what a fire-smart yard looks like to YOU.

Add your favorite safe plants, trees, decorations, and anything else that helps make your yard beautiful and fire-smart.



Everything You Need to Know

Ready to take part in the 2025 Student Art Contest? Below you’ll find everything you need to know—entry categories, judging criteria, how to submit artwork, and what kind of recognition winners will receive.

Submission Deadline

Friday, August 8, 2025, 5:00pm PDT



Judging Submissions by School Grade Level

Submissions will be grouped by grade level

  • Grades K-2
  • Grades 3-5
  • Grades 6-8
  • Grades 9-12

Judging Criteria

A panel of community members, educators, and wildfire safety experts will evaluate entries based on:

  • Creativity
  • Connection to the wildfire preparedness theme
  • Effort & craftsmanship

Awards

Each grade-level category will include four recognitions:

The Golden Boot. Awarded to the piece that brings it all together — creativity, heart, and fire-smart storytelling.

Heart of the Spark. For a piece full of imagination and originality –– celebrating the spark of pure creativity.

Keeper of the Flame. Celebrates the piece that honors and expresses the contest theme in a powerful way.

The Burning Ember: Celebrates a piece that creatively conveys a wildfire safety message and inspires action.

Recognition

Winners in each grade-level category will be honored with:

  • Artwork professionally printed and displayed at Ember Stomp 2025 (September 6)
  • A keepsake print of your artwork, designed just for contest winners – available for pickup at Ember Stomp.  
  •  to take home (available for pickup at the event)
  • A certificate of recognition
  • Optional on-stage acknowledgment at Ember Stomp

How to Submit

We’ve made it easy for families, teachers, and camp counselors to submit student entries.

  1. Take a clear photo of the completed artwork using a phone or tablet.
  2. No editing or special formatting required – just save the image as one of the following file types: .JPG, .JPEG, or .PNG.
  3. Upload your photo using our online entry form
  4. Fill out the form to tell us who you are and share a few details about your artwork.



Right to Use Content

All submitted artwork becomes the property of Fire Safe Marin and may be used in displays, promotional materials, and outreach campaigns.

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How to Take a Good Photo

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Step 1

Use good lighting: Take your photo in natural light (like near a window during the day). Avoid shadows, glare, or bright overhead lights that wash out the colors.
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Step 2

Lay the art flat: Place your drawing on a flat surface—like a table or clean floor. Make sure the whole piece fits in the frame (don’t cut off the edges!).
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Step 3

Hold the camera straight: Take the photo from directly above (not at an angle). Try to keep the phone or camera level so the artwork isn’t tilted or distorted.
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Step 4

Fill the frame: Get close enough so the artwork fills the picture—but leave a little space around the edges. Don’t include fingers or objects in the frame if possible.

Submission Form

Click Here For Entry Form

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