The Department of Art, the Department of English, and the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College invite all Randolph College students to submit creative or academic writing inspired by one or more artworks in its permanent collection. A cash prize will be awarded to the winner(s) at the Academic and Leadership Awards Ceremony. The deadline for entry is March 22, 2012.

Students planning to submit should carefully read the conditions of entry.

The intent of the award is to recognize excellence in writing that responds to or interprets works of art in the Maier Museum collection. Each year, Randolph students are invited to submit creative or academic compositions of any type to be considered for this award. The award was established in memory of Helen Owen Calvert, by her family. Mrs. Calvert was a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and the mother of one of the Maier Museum’s former curators of education, Doni Guggenheimer.

Please note that poems submitted for the Calvert Award that are written about works in the Museum’s permanent collection with images represented in the Museum’s online catalog will also be automatically considered for publication on our online Ekphrastic Poetry Journal.