Aerosol Art & Video Competitions

The 39^th AAAR conference will have both an art and video competition. This is your chance to showcase your creative side and help educate the world about aerosols!

• Submit an entry of your most beautiful, interesting, or artistic-looking particle(s) or other images of aerosols or research equipment. You may exercise your creativity with the image, adding color, etc.  There are two submission categories – images at the microscopic scale or larger scale.
• Create an engaging and educational video to explain aerosol science to a wider audience. Submitted videos will be screened by the education committee and the top 5 entries will be featured at the conference.

Art entries will be displayed online during the conference and the top videos will also be available to view during the conference. A democratic vote will determine the winners of cash prizes.

Art prizes for each category:

• First prize $200
• Second prize $100
• Third prize $50

Video prize:

• First prize $1000 (+up to $5000 to improve video)
• Second prize $800
• Third prize $500

To enter the art or the video competitions, please log into the abstract submission site at https://aaarabstracts.com/2021/login-form.php. After logging in, click on the “Submit Aerosol Art” or “Submit Aerosol Video” links that appear in the Navigation panel.

• For the art competition, electronically submit a high-resolution image as a PDF file with a title, list of contributing artists and their affiliations, and brief explanation of your submission (~60 words maximum).
• For the video competition, please upload your video to YouTube. On the submission site, please provide a video title, list of contributing artists and affiliations, a brief explanation of your submission (~60 words maximum), and the YouTube link.

To participate, at least one of the artists is required to be a registered attendee at the conference.

Submissions should be the original work of the author(s). Submission indicates permission for your picture or video to be displayed at the conference, on the AAAR website/conference website or related literature, including the Particulars e-Newsletter or Twitter.

If you have additional questions, please contact the appropriate coordinators of the competition:

Dr. Marit Meyer (marit.meyer@nasa.gov), Particle Art Competition Coordinator.

Drs. Rachel O’Brien (reobrien@wm.edu), Coty Jen (cotyj@andrew.cmu.edu), Naomi Zimmerman (nzimmerman@mech.ubc.ca), Online Education Committee.