Calling All Creatives: Radio Catskill Launches 35th Anniversary T-Shirt Design Contest

Radio Catskill is celebrating 35 years of public radio with a creative call-to-action: we’re inviting artists, illustrators, and designers across our listening region to submit original artwork for our 35th Anniversary T-Shirt Design Contest.

This is your chance to have your work showcased on T-shirts worn by listeners, supporters, and fellow public radio lovers. The winning design will be printed and sold as official Radio Catskill merchandise and promoted on-air, on our website, and across social media channels.

Runner-up designs may also be selected for other branded items, including “Thank You” postcards for our generous donors.

Submission Deadline: June 6, 2025

We’re looking for original, line-based artwork that reflects the spirit of:

35 Years of Public Radio

Radio Catskill

Local News, Culture, and NPR

There is no fee to enter.

Official Rules & Guidelines:

One entry per person

No copyrighted material, profanity, or stock imagery

No previously printed designs

Artwork must include a reference to Radio Catskill

Limit of four colors in the design (white counts as two colors)

Finalists must provide a high-resolution, layered vector art file upon request

Winners agree to allow Radio Catskill to use their design and likeness for promotional purposes

Employees of Radio Catskill and their families are not eligible

Submissions must be sent via email to tshirt@wjffradio.org with a JPEG or PDF attachment. Please include design specs (dimensions, recommended shirt color, PMS colors, etc.) in the body of the email.

Judging Criteria:

All entries will be reviewed by a panel of local artists, radio staff, and community members. Designs will be judged on creativity, artistic quality, relevance to the themes, and overall impact. All decisions are final.

The contest winner will be notified via email by June 15, 2025.

So fire up your imagination, grab your tools, and help us celebrate 35 years of listener-powered public radio with art that speaks to the heart of our community.

Additional terms and conditions
Winning constitutes permission (except where prohibited by law) to use Winner’s name, images, hometown, likeness, prize won, and photograph (all at Sponsor’s discretion) for future advertising, publicity in any and all media now or hereafter devised throughout the world in perpetuity, without additional compensation, notification or permission. Contest Parties and their respective officers, directors, agents, representatives, and employees (collectively, “Released Parties”) are not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, damaged, stolen, altered, garbled, incorrect, incomplete or delayed Entries; all of which will be void. Released Parties are also not responsible for problems related to technical malfunctions of electronic equipment, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer hardware or software failures, phone lines, failure of any Entry to be received by Sponsor on account of technical problems, traffic, congestion on the internet or the website, or for any other technical problems including telecommunication, miscommunication or failure, and failed, lost, delayed, incomplete, garbled, or misdirected communications which may limit a contestant’s ability to participate in this Contest. Released Parties are not responsible for any other errors or malfunctions of any kind, whether network, printing, typographical, human or otherwise relating to or in connection with the Contest, including, without limitation, errors or malfunctions with may occur in connection with the administration of the Contest, the processing or judging of Entries, the announcement of the prize or in any Contest-related materials. Mass entries generated by a script, macro or use of automated devices will be disqualified. Sponsor reserves the right to modify, suspend or terminate the Contest in the event it becomes infected by a computer virus or is otherwise technically impaired, and to cancel or suspend the Contest in its entirety should tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or other causes corrupt the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper play of the Contest and, if terminated, at Sponsor’s discretion, determine the Winner using all non-suspect, eligible entries received up to time of cancellation using the judging procedure outlined above. Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual (and void his/her Entries) it finds to be tampering with the Entry process or the operation of this Contest or website, intending to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other contestant, Sponsor, or any of its representatives or to otherwise be acting in violation of these Official Rules. CAUTION: Any attempt by a contestant to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operations of the Contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws. Should such an attempt be made, the Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such contestant to the fullest extent permitted by the law and to disqualify such contestant from the Contest. MISCELLANEOUS CONDITIONS: Failure to comply with these Official Rules may result in disqualification from the Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to permanently disqualify any person it believes has intentionally violated these Official Rules. Contest subject to all federal, state and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited by law.