Eligibility
Art of STEM is open to Case Western Reserve University faculty, students and staff, Cleveland Institute of Art students who collaborate with a member of the Case Western Reserve community, as well as high school students from the Cuyahoga County.
Entries can have one or more authors and only one entry is accepted for a single author. If there are multiple authors, one entry limitation applies based on the main author (person submitting the entry).
Artwork
Art of STEM competition welcomes STEM-related digital images. Physically created images are eligible only if the artists scans it, saves it as JPG, and submits the image.
Contestants are encouraged to submit the following types of images:
- Images obtained from machines, instruments, or tools in a lab
- Photographic images of nature, scientific phenomena, or people at work on a science-related project
- Hand-drawn or AI-generated images describing science or technology concepts
- Science and technology-related hand-drawn or AI-generated images
- Digitally enhanced scientific images
- Images of art created using any type of technology
- Any other type of STEM-related image presented as art
Final artwork must be at 300DPI and saved as a JPG at the highest quality (in Photoshop this is 12).
While tutorials & templates are provided for Photoshop, artwork can be created in any software using any techniques at any size.
Title
Titles should be creative and indicative of the content of the image.
Caption
The caption should be written for a non-specialist audience and explain in plain language the scientific context of the image, why it is important to the author, and what is important for the public to understand. Special emphasis will be given to this year’s entries that, by distilling scientific concepts and knowledge, show how science connects to everyday lives, help demonstrate the importance of research, and pique the curiosity and imagination of those with no or little experience in specific STEM fields.
The ability to effectively communicating scientific information and discoveries to the general public is an artform in itself. Accurately distilling discipline-specific knowledge that takes years of dedicated study to truly grasp into digestible information that can be understood by non-experts can be challenging–but it’s incredibly important. Showing how science connects to everyday lives helps demonstrate the importance of research, can inform decision-making and public policy, and can pique curiosity and imagination. Special emphasis will be given to this year’s entries on how well they can distill scientific concepts and knowledge for those with no or little experience in specific STEM fields.
If using AI tools, these should be mentioned in the Caption.
Captions are limited to a maximum of 200 words.
