Deadline extended for Editorial Cartoon Contest

EL DORADO – The deadline for the 2016 Editorial Cartoon Contest has been extended to Sept. 30, according to Colleen Means at the South Arkansas Arts Center.

The contest is being sponsored by the arts center, the El Dorado News-Times and William P. Cook and Associates, PLLC.

Entries will be judged in two divisions – for adults and students in grades nine through 12 – and entry fees are $5 each. Cash prizes totaling $380 will be presented in several divisions, including $100 for Best of Show, $50 for first place in each division, $25 for second place in each division and $15 for third place in each division. The Editor’s Choice Award of $100 will be awarded by Ronnie Bell, general manager of the El Dorado News-Times.

Participants should draw an editorial or political cartoon about any current event or political campaign issue of local or national interest. Judging will be based on originality, clean expression of a point of view and visual presentation using humor, irony, caricature, symbolism, metaphor, sarcasm or exaggeration.

Entry forms and entry fees, along with the original cartoon drawing or image on CD or USB drive, should be taken to the South Arkansas Arts Center, 110 E. Fifth St., El Dorado. To enter online, go to www.saac-arts.org to find the online form and follow the instructions.

An awards reception will be held from 5 until 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 11 at the arts center and the cartoons will be on exhibit at the arts center from Oct. 3-27.

For more information, call the arts center at 8625474.