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Overview

Welcome to our FanNation Art Contest! All ages are welcome to enter the contest. This year's contest asks that participants draw the image for an OCL FanNation Trading Card.

Entries will be accepted from Tuesday, July 1st until Monday, September 1st, 2025, at 5:00PM EST. No entries will be accepted after that date.

The Ocean County Library FanNation Committee staff will judge the artwork. Artwork must be created by the contestant. Any plagiarized pieces will immediately be disqualified from the contest. A maximum of 5 winners will be selected from each age category. Please view the full Art Contest Guidelines below.

Viewing of the selected pieces will be at FanNation on Saturday, October 4th in the Second Floor Gallery of the Toms River Branch, by the Biographies. You may only submit one piece. To submit your artwork, complete the form below. Once complete, you will see a confirmation page with where to submit the digital copy of your work.

If you are a winning entry, your artwork will be printed, framed, and hung in the Second Floor Gallery of the Toms River Branch. Winning entries will also be resized into trading cards.

 

Art Contest Guidelines

  • Submit one original piece of artwork within the appropriate age category:
    • Child (5-11)
    • Teen (12-17)
    • Adult (18+)
  • Submissions must be able to fit on an 8.5x11 page. The trading card template (added by staff) must be able to fit on an 8.5x11 page.
  • Content cannot be vulgar, offensive, contain profanity or lewd images, and must be created by the contestant. No AI Generated materials will be accepted. Any artwork found to be plagiarized or containing unacceptable content will be immediately disqualified from the competition.
  • Artwork must be submitted digitally via an email you will receive after you complete the form from Tuesday, July 1st until Monday, September 1st, 2025, at 5:00PM EST. No entries will be accepted after this date or time.
  • OCL FanNation staff will score the artwork on a scale from 1-5 in 4 categories. 
    • Skillset: Based on artistic skill.
    • Creativity: Use of medium, lighting, theme representation. 
    • Theme: Is the contest theme easy to detect? Faithful to the lore (if applicable). 
    • Use of space: Did you use the space to its full capacity.

 

Question and Answer

Will I receive a response?
Yes. An automatic response will be sent to the recipient. However, after that initial response, you will not receive any additional information unless you are chosen to be one of the Ocean County Library winners.
How many winners are chosen for each category?
5 people will be chosen from each category. There will be a first, second, and third place followed by the next 2 runners-up.
How do I know I won?
The artists who have won 1st - 5th place will be contacted by one of our judges via email on the last full week of September.
How many submissions can one person have?
Each artist can only submit one piece of artwork digitally.
Where will this artwork be shown?
Your artwork will be displayed at the Ocean County library’s Toms River branch in the second-floor gallery near the biographies until October 31st.
If I am one of the 5 winners from each category, will I need to drop off a physical copy of my artwork?
No physical copy will be needed. The winning artwork will be printed out, framed, and hung on the second floor of the Toms River library.
Is there a prize for the first-place winners of the competition?
There is a special prize for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each category. This prize may immortalize your picture in card form to be one of the very first collectible trading cards offered by the Ocean County Library for a limited time.
Do you have to live in Ocean County to submit artwork?
No, you do not have to live in Ocean County to enter a submission.

 

Art Contest Submission Form

✦Required✦

Please complete the form below:

Age (please select the correct age below):
How did you find out about this art contest:

Permissions:

  • With this signature, I confirm that this submitted work of art was created only by me. I also confirm that I have read and understand the art submission guidelines.
  • With this signature, I confirm that this submitted work of art may be turned into a trading card, which the public can collect at FanNation on Saturday, October 4th, 2025.

Parent Signature if 17 and younger:

  • I hereby grant my permission to the Ocean County Library to use the creative images created by my child.
  • Yes, I give my permission for my child to participate in the FanNation Art Contest with the Ocean County Library.
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