"Me in the New Millennium"

On behalf of the Congressional Member Organization for the Arts, we applaud your efforts to promote child art globally… - Rep. Louise M. Slaughter and Rep. Stephen Horn (01/05/98)

Every four years the International Child Art Foundation (ICAF) organizes the children's ARTS OLYMPIAD. The program begins with local and national art competitions and culminates in the International ChildArt Festival in Washington, DC.

In the wake of 9/11, participation in the ARTS OLYMPIAD is not only healing for children, it encourages them to embrace the world rather than continue to fear it. The goal of the ARTS OLYMPIAD is to prepare children for a creative and cooperative future.

The theme of the competition, Me in the New Millennium, encouraged children to think of the future and their role in it, and to depict their thoughts with creativity and imagination. The theme invoked vitally important issues for children and society: "How do I see myself?" "How do I want the world to see me?" "What do I want to change?" The Arts Olympiad is free, and offers exciting opportunities.

Winners Come to Washington As Delegates!
Distinguished juries will select a winner each from all U.S. States and Territories and up to 100 participating countries. The winners, their teachers and parents, will be Official Delegates to the 2003 International ChildArt Festival - the world's largest international celebration of children's creativity and imagination to be held in Washington, DC from September 6 to 13, 2003.

ICAF's Previous Program
More than one million children in the United States and 85 nations created artwork under ICAF'' previous program on the theme, My World in the Year 2000. More…