Student Competitions
2005 Student Public Awareness Campaign Competition
This year we received an overwhelming response to our call for entries (double that of last year's) and we were most impressed by the strength of the work. As one of our judges remarked, "I am really impressed with the creativity, professionalism, and style of all these ads. They'd look good in anybody's portfolio."
"It was hard to choose between the pieces, they were all powerful. For instance, when I saw You Have Been Robbed, I felt like I had been slapped. I wanted to jump up and do something right then to stop the looting," another judge said. This is exactly the feeling SAFE hopes to inspire in people.
A big thank you to our judges and entrants for participating in our continued efforts to raise public awareness about the looting of antiquities.
The work of our winners have received international attention on CulturCooperation, the publication IKA, and museu-on.com. In November 2009, New Mexico State Parks ordered copies of third-prize winning poster for all 35 parks to help raise awareness about looting.
Contact us if you are interested in ordering high-quality copies of the winners' work. Available in US letter or A4 sizes, please specify.
First-prize winner, recipient of the $250 award
Donna Yates, the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
"I have been passionate about archaeology for nearly as long as I can remember. When I finally excavated 
for the first time in Mesoamerica, I was struck by the widespread destruction of monuments and sites from large scale looting. Though I continued to participate in normal archaeological field projects, my growing concern for the stability and sustainability of archaeological sites eventually lead me across the ocean to Cambridge's heritage management program and to the Illicit Antiquities Research Centre of the McDonald Institute of Archaeology. I was drawn to this contest because I am passionate about this issue. I want to make people feel the loss that I feel and hopefully inspire them to act. Read more…
Joe Chan, Gianna Rey, Alex Ciociola, Stacey Sarakinotis, Boston University, Massachusetts USA
"The concept originally came about from a small fu-dog statue that my family keeps in the foyer of my house. For the longest time, the only things I knew about it was that it represented something from China and that it made a rather good doorstop. Only from a recent course in Chinese civilizations did I discover the role it played in Chinese culture and mythology, and the Group agreed that the fu-dog would be an excellent example of the historical damage of removing a similar object from a historical site. Read more…
Jennifer Estrada, Mallory Finley, Stella Shin, Jane Kim, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Evangelia Kranioti, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
