SevenDays, a Kansas City-based nonprofit organization that promotes kindness and understanding through education and dialogue, is looking for designs by area high school students to capture its daily themes for its annual SevenDays Button Art Competition.
All students are invited to submit their original designs through an application by midnight on Dec. 15. All applications must be submitted online.
SevenDays is marking its 10th anniversary in 2024.
The student-designed colorful buttons (and stickers) reflect each day’s theme and have become a signature of SevenDays. The buttons and stickers are distributed to area schools, businesses, organizations, faith groups and the public to spread the message of kindness.
“Through this competition for high school students, we are giving them a voice and asking their opinion on what kindness means to them, inviting them to depict kindness through our selected themes and in the genre of wearable art,” said Mindy Corporon, SevenDays co-founder. “These students will make our world more kind, and we are providing them the platform from which to do so.”
For the competition, interested students must submit eight original artistic designs, representing each of the SevenDays daily themes — “love,” “discover,” “others,” “connect,” “you” and “go.” Complete details about the competition can be found at sevendays.org under the “Get Involved” tab.
Winning button designs will be chosen by a panel of local art professionals and representatives of SevenDays. Students’ artwork may win in only one category. Winners will be notified via email in early January. The eight students whose designs are selected will each receive $500.
SevenDays 2024 activities begin on Wednesday, April 10, with its Kindness Breakfast in The Foundry at The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas. SevenDays will also host its new Community Kindness Festival on Sunday, April 14, on the grounds of the Jewish Community Campus.
During the ensuing days, SevenDays encourages the public to celebrate kindness through the other daily themes.
Questions regarding the Button Art Competition applications should be emailed directly to Jill Andersen, SevenDays director of youth engagement, at with “SevenDays Button Art Competition” in the subject line.
Images of past button designs and videos featuring past button art winners can be found on the SevenDays YouTube channel.
