CONTEST RULES & REGULATIONS
The Bob Hope Airport invites all Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena Unified School
District high school students in Grades 9-12 to enter the Bob Hope Airport Student Art “Tower
Banner” Contest!
PREAMBLE
Bob Hope Airport has a beautiful tower facade visible by tens of thousands of airport visitors
every day as they drive or walk to and from the historic airport terminal building. The BurbankGlendale-Pasadena Airport Authority is seeking banners for display on the building facade to
offer airport visitors an added dimension to their experience of the airport and of aviation.
Student artists from Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena high school grades 9-12 are encouraged
to create art that will take best advantage of a large-scale, outdoor display venue and effectively
target viewers who are on the move with decorative, creative illustration that is bold, colorful,
and at the same time instantly viewable, understandable, and stimulating.
Each school district will present to the Bob Hope Airport its top three entries that best
depict the theme “Up and Away.” Each entry can be the work of one artist or the combined
effort of more than one artist. The districts will be solely responsible for determining which
entries are chosen as the top three entries. The Arts and Culture Commission from each
respective City will then consider the three entries and make a final selection of one entry from
its school district based on the judging criteria set forth below. The winning artwork from each
school district will be displayed on the façade of the Bob Hope Airport terminal tower for a
period of approximately three months where it will be seen by well over a million travelers and
airport visitors as they arrive and depart the terminal.
A $3,000 award will be given to each school district in honor of the winning entry, and
that award will serve as a license fee for the Authority’s exclusive use of the winning art for a
one-year license period. The school districts will agree to stipulate that the award will be used to
help support and promote their respective education programs for the arts. Once the three
winning entries have been chosen by the Authority, the order of their display will be Pasadena,
Burbank and Glendale, rotating the order each year.
To be eligible to enter the contest, the student artist(s) must be currently enrolled in
Grades 9-12 in high schools of the Burbank Unified School District, Glendale Unified School
District, or Pasadena Unified School District.
Entry Deadline: January 28, 2011
Judging Criteria: Entries must meet ALL rules and submission criteria stated herein to be
eligible. Entries will be evaluated by the Arts and Culture Commission from each respective
City and the artwork will be judged against the following basic criteria: adherence to the
theme, legibility of the visual composition in the display venue, artistic merit and
creativity. Judging shall take into consideration general standards of decency and
respect for diverse beliefs and values. Artwork shall be disqualified if it is obscene or if it
contains images or text that is political, religious, or sexually explicit or suggestive.
Entry Instructions
Size: Finished tower banner size will be 17’ by 26’ (portrait). For judging purposes, all
finished artwork must be presented no larger than 18” wide x 24” high and mounted on an 18”
wide x 24” high white foam board, ¼” thick. Artwork must NOT BE framed or outlined with
any type of border. Note: No landscape orientation artwork will be accepted; only portrait
orientation artwork will be considered. Do not include the name “Bob Hope Airport” on your
artwork because the Airport tower already shows the name.
Media Permitted: The student artist is free to use any artistic medium of his or her choice to
produce the original artwork. Should the artist choose to submit a digital entry, recommended
applications are Adobe Photoshop, Quark Express or Adobe Illustrator. Digital art files must be
prepared according to “Large Format, Artwork Submission Specifications” instructions attached.
Winning artwork will be converted by the Airport Authority or its designated banner production
company into appropriate digital files.
Documentation submitted with all entries: Full name of high school and address, full name of
artist or group/class, grade level(s), teacher’s name and telephone number, attached to the back
of the artwork.
A copy of the Student Release Form, signed by the student creator(s), and by a parent/guardian
of each such student, must be attached to each entry presented to the Burbank-GlendalePasadena Airport Authority. The purposes of the Release Form are to certify the originality of
the piece and to authorize execution of the License Agreement if the artwork is chosen as a
winning entry. Each entry must be an original in concept, design, and execution and may not
violate any U.S. copyright laws.
License Agreement: A license agreement will be executed by the school district and the
Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority for each winning artwork. All artwork will be
returned to the rightful owner(s) after display on the Airport tower at the conclusion of the
license agreement period.
Publicity: Submission of an entry in the contest constitutes consent for the Burbank-GlendalePasadena Airport Authority to use the artist’s name, school, and grade, and the teacher’s name
at the time of entry submission for promotional purposes in any media without further
consideration.
Agreement to Rules: By entering the contest, entrants fully and unconditionally agree to and
accept the rules as outlined herein and agree to accept the decision of the Burbank-GlendalePasadena Airport Authority contest judges as final and binding.
General: The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority reserves the right to cancel,
suspend, and/or modify the contest or any part of it. If any fraud or factors beyond the BurbankGlendale-Pasadena Airport Authority’s control impair the integrity of the contest or events
beyond the control of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority make fulfilling the
terms of the contest impossible, the contest may be modified, suspended, and/or cancelled at the
sole discretion of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority. The Burbank-GlendalePasadena Airport Authority reserves the right to disqualify any entry if it finds the entry to be in
violation of the rules of the contest.