UPR Art Mug Contest
To all of the many creative and artistic UPR listeners, we want YOU to participate in the Annual UPR Art Mug Contest!
This year marks the 15th anniversary of UPR’s nature program, Wild About Utah, and we will be celebrating by making it this year’s contest theme.
Please submit a design that commemorates the Wild About Utah 15th Anniversary by sending in a submission that celebrates the program or the beautiful wild Utah we all live in. Send your submission to katie.swain@usu.edu for a chance to have your design printed on the 2023 mug.
Submissions are due Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Then, check back so you can vote on your favorite designs. The top design will be printed on the 2023 mug, which will be available during our Spring Member Drive in March.
About the Competition
Wild About Utah is a weekly nature series produced by Utah Public Radio that discusses topics ranging from native plants and birds, dark skies, bees, bears, fireflies, permaculture design and so much more.
Wild About Utah looks closely at this beautiful state, which is endowed with many natural wonders from red rock formations to salt flats. And from desert wetlands to columns of mountains forming the basin and range region.
As we celebrate 15 years of this program, your design should be an interpretation or appreciation of Wild About Utah, or one of the many topics it has discussed during the last decade and a half.
All styles of artwork from cartoon to watercolor to photography and beyond are welcome.
We would love to see you incorporate the year (2023), UPR, Utah Public Radio, Wild About Utah or other relevant text into your design. You can even incorporate our logo (see below)!
Design Specifications
We will work to accommodate and crop designs of a variety of sizes, however, the ideal design conforms to the following specifications:
The printing space is 8 and 3/4 inches wide by 3 and 7/8 inches high. The image should be in full color and able to wrap around an 11 oz. white ceramic coffee mug almost from handle to handle.
For questions and to submit your design, email katie.swain@usu.edu
Past Designs
2013 winning mug design by Lucy Watkins.
2014 winning mug design by Sandy Bell.
2015 winning mug design by Kate Anderson.
2017 winning mug design by Patricia Priebe-Swanson.
2018 winning mug design by Stephen Bevan.
2019 winning mug design by Sandy Bell.
2020 winning mug design by Madeleine Alder.
2021 winning mug design by Carol Bold.
2022 winning mug design by Teresa Jordan.
