Kids! Create A Masterpiece for Manna

Community Appreciation Event

ART exhibition

Manna Food Center is recognizing 30 years of fighting hunger and feeding hope in our community. We are inviting all students in Grades K – 12 to participate in a community-wide art exhibition to celebrate the collaboration and care of the community that helped build Manna.

• Submission theme is “fighting hunger and feeding hope”
• Contest rules:
  • 1 entry per artist
  • 8 ½ x 11 or 8 ½ x 14 paper size
  • Crayon, pastels, pencil, pen, & paint mediums as well as photography accepted.  No computer – generated artwork
  • Submission deadline is Friday, May 24, 2013
  • Mail your submission to:  Manna  Food Center, Attention: Volunteer Manager, 9311 Gaither Road, Gaithersburg, MD  20877
  • IMPORTANT!  Include on the reverse side of your entry:  your name, phone number, email, school, grade  Unfortunately, we cannot accept artwork without this information.

Winners will be contacted and recognized at our Community Appreciation Event in June!

All submissions become the property of Manna Food Center and will not be returned.  When you send in a submission, you are agreeing to allow Manna Food Center to display your artwork and/or post on our webpage or on Manna’s social media outlets, such as, but not limited to Manna’s newsletters, Facebook and Twitter accounts.

About Jenna Umbriac

Jenna Umbriac is Manna's dietitian. Since 1983, Manna has been feeding Montgomery County’s food insecure residents. In our 30 years of service Manna has served nearly 3 million people, 668,527 households, and distributed 45 million pounds of food. As the designated food bank for Montgomery County we are the main resource people turn to when they find themselves in need of food assistance. Manna delivers emergency food assistance through its three main programs: Food for Families, Smart Sacks, and Agency Food Distribution.

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