NASA - On your way home, you find it a little hard to breathe. Your breathing becomes shorter as your heart rate gets faster. Come to find out, your personal oxygen tank is low, so you stop at the oxygen station to get a refill, just to be on the safe side. As you are filling your oxygen tank, you talk with the person next to you about the craters around your home, meteor showers and the latest gossip of life on earth.
Once you fill your tank, your heart rate and breathing return to normal. You get home, call it a day, and buckle up in your bed near the ceiling to get a good night's rest.
Scenarios like this are what more than 200 college and high school students thought of when creating art and design entries to submit to NASA's "2010 Life and Work on the Moon Art and Design Contest." This may seem like a simple theme to apply when creating original artwork, but it was not as easy as one would think for these talented students.
Not only did they need to imagine and create original art related to life and work on the Moon, but the art needed to portray life that could survive the Moon's harsh conditions. Students needed to ask themselves, what would fuel a spacecraft, what types of food would people eat, how would there be enough oxygen, and many more questions like these.
Students expressed their creativity and innovation pertaining to life and work on the Moon through many categories, including two-dimensional, three-dimensional, digital art, music, literature and video.
"Offering students the opportunity to express themselves through art allows us to reach out to people who otherwise might not be able to participate in our program of exploration," said Jerry Hartman, Education Lead for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. "Plus, the young people come up with a lot of cool stuff!"
A panel of scientists, professional artists and educators from the U.S. and other nations reviewed and judged the students' artwork. Judges based their reviews on three elements. The first was an artist statement that described what inspired the student, what artistic media they chose and why. Second was creativity and artistic expression. The third category and the hardest to judge was the validity of a realistic situation for the Moon's harsh conditions.
Jim Plaxco, third year NASA art contest judge, with his own digital art gallery website, Artsnova, describes how judging validity is the most difficult. "In the case of a painting that consists only of a space-suited astronaut walking on the surface of the Moon - does the person really understand that environment?" said Plaxco. "For example, people without spacesuits on the Moon is kind of a dead giveaway."
Once you fill your tank, your heart rate and breathing return to normal. You get home, call it a day, and buckle up in your bed near the ceiling to get a good night's rest.
Scenarios like this are what more than 200 college and high school students thought of when creating art and design entries to submit to NASA's "2010 Life and Work on the Moon Art and Design Contest." This may seem like a simple theme to apply when creating original artwork, but it was not as easy as one would think for these talented students.
Not only did they need to imagine and create original art related to life and work on the Moon, but the art needed to portray life that could survive the Moon's harsh conditions. Students needed to ask themselves, what would fuel a spacecraft, what types of food would people eat, how would there be enough oxygen, and many more questions like these.
Students expressed their creativity and innovation pertaining to life and work on the Moon through many categories, including two-dimensional, three-dimensional, digital art, music, literature and video.
"Offering students the opportunity to express themselves through art allows us to reach out to people who otherwise might not be able to participate in our program of exploration," said Jerry Hartman, Education Lead for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. "Plus, the young people come up with a lot of cool stuff!"
A panel of scientists, professional artists and educators from the U.S. and other nations reviewed and judged the students' artwork. Judges based their reviews on three elements. The first was an artist statement that described what inspired the student, what artistic media they chose and why. Second was creativity and artistic expression. The third category and the hardest to judge was the validity of a realistic situation for the Moon's harsh conditions.
Jim Plaxco, third year NASA art contest judge, with his own digital art gallery website, Artsnova, describes how judging validity is the most difficult. "In the case of a painting that consists only of a space-suited astronaut walking on the surface of the Moon - does the person really understand that environment?" said Plaxco. "For example, people without spacesuits on the Moon is kind of a dead giveaway."
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