SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest 2021
The 2021 SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest received 2,147 entries, from 2,018 participants in 50 countries!
Artists from the following countries took part: Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA and Uzbekistan.
Thank you to the 392 schools that took part, as well as all the independent artists!
Grand Prize Winner
Alena Hisamova, Russia
Title: Frogs On A Stick
“My name is Alena, I am 16 years old and I draw frogs. My painting is called “frogs on a stick”, I painted it in watercolors, for me it is a favorite material, it helps to convey the liveliness of the work. Frogs at my work are like living things, and all living things need to be protected. This is what I wanted to convey with my work.”
2nd Place Winner
Hyunseo Lee, South Korea
3rd Place Winner
Ginger Lee, USA
“I entered this contest with my daughter who loves frogs and wants to be a herpetologist when she grows up.”
Frog art fact: Ginger is the only one of this year’s five winners over the age of 17!
4th Place Winner
Gabrielle Galarneau, Canada
“I drew this piece on the program Procreate, where I do most of my other art. I’m an art student from Canada who loves to cartoon and draw as well as write. Frogs are my favorite animal 🙂 “
5th Place Winner
Diana Novokreshina, Russia
“I wanted to draw the cutest frog with a flower. SAVE THE FROGS!”
The Finalists
Six amazing frog artists were chosen as finalists:
– Jana Antanaskovic, Serbia
– Stephanie Porter, USA
– Noemi Agocs, Hungary
– Grace Ezzati, Canada
– Valeria Ryzhikova, Russia
– Yanyu Zhang, USA
The gallery below features the Finalists’ art. You can click on any image below to see it larger. Scroll your mouse over the art to see who the artist is and where they are from. Keep your mouse all the way in the black of the left column if you do NOT want to see artist names as you scroll. Enjoy the art!
The Semi-Finalists
We awarded 23 talented frog artists with Semi-Finalists distinction. Artists hail from Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Taiwan and the USA
The gallery below features the Semi-Finalists’ art.
The Honorable Mentions
We awarded Honorable Mentions to 125 participants. Enjoy their beautiful art in the gallery below!
A Message For The Other Participants
We received a LOT of amazing art this year, not just from the Winners, Finalists, Semi-Finalists and Honorable Mentions. If you participated in this year’s contest and your art is not featured on this page, we encourage you to participate again! Only 8.7% of this year’s entries (186 of 2,147) were chosen as Honorable Mentions, Semi-Finalists, Finalists or Winners. Next year, it could very well be YOUR art that gets featured.
Click inside the galleries below and scroll down to see the 2021 SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest Honorable Mentions and learn a bit more about the artists.
Meet The Artists
Here you can learn about some of the artists who received Honorable Mentions.
Here you can meet many more of the 2021 SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest Participants…
Thanks To The Judges!
Thank you to SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest Judges, who looked at every piece of submitted art!
All art gets reviewed without knowledge of the artists’ country, gender, age, name, school or any other identifying information. We long ago abandoned using age categories for judging because we realized that frog artists of all ages can create amazing art.
Frog art by Nastassia Akunevich, Russia.
Special Thanks To International Student Art in China!
SAVE THE FROGS! sends its appreciation to the students and teachers of International Student Art, for their school’s participation (78 students submitted art) and for donating $390 to SAVE THE FROGS!. Read on to learn about the school and how they are promoting amphibian awareness in China.
ISA (International Student Art) is an international art exchange platform established by Yibangda Aesthetic Education Alliance in 2016.
It is committed to:
- Promoting China’s aesthetic education from 4 to 22 years old, from early childhood to university;
- Promoting Chinese students to be more open, and more international perspective, to experience the world’s best art and culture;
- Assisting outstanding Chinese students to participate in the international student art competition, and
- Providing a more comprehensive and better aesthetic education for future development.
Since 2020, ISA has formed a close cooperative relationship with the SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest. Both parties have the same values and actions in aesthetic education and nature protection. We jointly issued an initiative to Chinese children to encourage them to actively participate in the SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest, to care for the environment and save the frogs. Our actions have received enthusiastic responses from many alliance art institutions and Chinese students. In order to protect the frogs, our children not only submitted carefully created works, but also gave their love to SAVE THE FROGS! through donations!
In 2021, Ms. Wang Min, the Executive Director of ISA, was awarded the honorary title of Chinese Promotion Master by the United States SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest organizing committee! We hope that in future cooperation, more children will participate and contribute their talents and strength to the protection of frogs.
Thanks To ALL The Contestants!
Thank you to everyone who participated. We are happy to have you as part of the SAVE THE FROGS! Worldwide Community and encourage you to take part again in the future and of course to spread the word about the contest!
Thanks To Our Past & Future Donors!
Your donations make this contest and our array of other amphibian conservation and education efforts possible!
Enter This Year's Art Contest!
SAVE THE FROGS! Founder Dr. Kerry Kriger, who built this webpage and has overseen the SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest since 2009.
A Word From The Grand Prize Winner
“My name is Julienne Zhao, I’m 16 years old and I’m currently a student. My inspiration for art has always been nature; I love depicting animals in scenery. I feel like we often forget or miss the beauty around us because we’re so occupied with what’s ahead. Events such as a simple sunrise or the frost on blades of grass in early morning brings me a feeling of serenity and peace that I attempt to share with others through art.
Thank You To BGaming
For Sponsoring The 2021
SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest
We appreciate the support of BGaming, who donated $769 to SAVE THE FROGS! in support of the 2021 SAVE THE FROGS! Art Contest. This isn’t the only way that BGaming has helped SAVE THE FROGS!…click the image below to learn about BGaming’s support of SAVE THE FROGS! wetland creation projects in Mexico.
