Crushed Ivory Design Challenge - Call for Entries - U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

The U.S Fish & Wildlife Service is hosting the Crushed Ivory Design Challenge. Please read more about it, see examples, and read application instructions and deadlines on their site. This is an amazing design challenge with opportunities to bring your creative vision and proposal to fruition while also bringing more attention to the plight of elephants.

The Challenge:
We’re asking for your help to transform this crushed ivory to memorialize the elephants that have died, educate the world about the dangers of buying ivory, and crush illegal ivory trade. Through this pro-bono design challenge, you have the opportunity to create a compelling, thought provoking, informative and impactful display to increase awareness about our fight against illegal wildlife trade.

San Antonio-based Artist and Photographer Mark Menjivar - Visiting Artist Lecture

Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 5pm in the Gallery Flex Space in JCM, the Art & Design Building at Texas State University.

Mark's work explores diverse subjects through photography, stories, and found objects while emphasizing dialogue and collaboration. Mark recently received his MFA in Art & Social Practice from Portland State University. His work has been shown at venues across the country including The Houston Center for Photography, The San Antonio Museum of Art, The Wignall Museum of Art, The University of Wisconsin-­Milwaukee, Baylor University, The Southwest School of Art and Central Michigan University. Mark's work has also been featured by TED, NPR, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Gastronomica, Orion Magazine, GUP Magazine and dozens more. In addition, his series, You Are What You Eat, won Director's Choice from CENTER and was a Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 project in 2009. In 2011 Mark received an artist grant from The Breckenridge Foundation. More information about Mark's work can be found at http://www.markmenjivar.com/.