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## Design Contest: Picture your art on the Arts Fest 2026 T-Shirt!

Calling all undergrads: Submit your artwork to be featured on the official t-shirt for Arts Fest, Harvard’s annual arts festival! Festival t-shirts are worn by participating artists, staff, and volunteers, and seen by over 7,000 audience members. The Arts Fest staff team seeks designs for the festival t-shirt that convey the joyful, expansive, welcoming energy of the festival as we celebrate all of the art forms that are created here at Harvard.

### Rules & Guidelines

#### Guidelines

1. Designs must be monochromatic (only one color) and use clean lines with solid fills (no detailed shading). This ensures that the design will translate well when screen-printed on a t-shirt.
    1. The color palette of Arts Fest 2026 is red and orange. The t-shirt design will be printed in white ink on a red t-shirt.
    2. The OFA will assist with digitizing the selected design, if needed.
2. Your design must include the words "make art". This has been the official tagline for festival t-shirts for over a decade, and is well-loved among both students and festival audiences.
3. The rest of your design should consist only of non-text elements (no other words besides "make art").
    1. Do not include the Harvard shield or logo, the OFA logo, or other university branding elements.
4. Formatting specifications:
    1. Your design must be at least at least 4,500 pixels on the shortest side and 300dpi. The file should be no larger than 5MB.
    2. Design files must be set to CMYK and saved as .psd, .ai, .eps, .jpg, .tif, or .pdf
5. No AI generated designs will be accepted. All design submissions must be original and be entirely student-created.

#### Additional Rules

1. This contest is open to all Harvard undergraduates in good academic standing.
2. By submitting your design, you as a student artist give permission to the OFA to use your artistic image for screen-printing on a t-shirt, as well as on promotional materials and digital outreach in service of the 2026 Harvard Arts Festival, *without expectation of compensation*. You, the artist, will retain all rights to your original image, and the artwork will be credited with your name in all materials.
3. Selected artist will receive five Arts Fest 2026 t-shirts.

### Submission

To submit your design, please email your design to **Marin Orlosky, Arts Fest Coordinator**, at <orlosky@fas.harvard.edu>. Please also include the following information:

1. Your name and class year
2. Links to any website or social media platforms where your artwork is displayed. We will link to this information when we announce and publicize the winning design.

### Deadline

Please submit your design by 11:59pm on December 19, 2025.

The selected design will be announced at the start of the Spring 2025 semester.

Questions? Contact [Marin Orlosky](mailto:orlosky@fas.harvard.edu), Arts Fest Coordinator.