We’re excited to launch this year’s School Mural Contest with the theme “Be the Drop, Make the Wave!”. K–12 students across Hawaiʻi are invited to create ARTivism: art that sparks activism. Collect materials to upcycle and design a mural that inspires solutions to plastic pollution in our communities and oceans. Get involved in a cleanup, recycling efforts, or repurposing items around the classroom.
Theme: “Be the Drop, Make the Wave!” Together We Can Solve Plastic Pollution. Create a mural that brings life to items in local waste streams to inspire optimistic solutions toward solving plastic pollution.
Details
• Who can participate? Students and school groups, grades K-12. Entries must be submitted by a Teacher or Parent on behalf of a student, a group of students, a club, a class, a grade level, or an entire school. Multiple groups from the same school may enter.
• Materials: Incorporate marine debris, plastic bottle caps, or any other single-use plastic items collected from cleanups or recycling drives. Tell us the story of where your materials came from in your Entry Form. Please do not encourage increased use or purchase of plastic bottles or other plastics to source materials. Stay tuned for more details on how you can participate in our Martin Luther King Jr. Day Beach Cleanup.
• Criteria: Murals will be judged on use of found or reused materials, visual appeal, creativity, and integration of the theme.
• Entry Format: Upload at least 3 digital high-resolution “actual size” jpeg (1MB minimum size). Additional detail shots are welcome if your mural is large in scope. Please also include photos with the students involved!
• Submissions: Enter by completing the form Contest at bit.ly/PFHMural2026 A signed media release is required for all participating artists in any photos.
All entries are due by February 23, 2026.
Download the flier below for more details and then, submit your work here: bit.ly/PFHMural26
