Now in its 11th year, SevenDays is looking for inspirational designs by area high school students (9-12 grades) to capture its daily themes for its annual SevenDays Button Art Competition.
All Kansas City metro students are invited to submit their original designs by the application deadline by midnight on Friday, Dec. 13. All applications must be submitted online at sevendays.org/get-involved/for-students/button-art-competition.
SevenDays is a Kansas City-based nonprofit organization that promotes kindness and understanding through education and dialogue
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. These stickers have been distributed locally as well as in 16 states across the country.
“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,” SevenDays Cofounder Mindy Corporon said last year.
For the competition, interested students must submit eight original artistic designs, representing each of the SevenDays daily themes — “love,” “discover,” “others,” “connect,” “you, “go” and “onward.” 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 2025 activities begin on Monday, March 31, 2025, and continue through Tuesday, April 8. SevenDays will also host its fourth annual Kindness Breakfast on Wednesday, April 2, in The Foundry at The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood. The art competition winners will be recognized during the Kindness breakfast.
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 with “SevenDays 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.
