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Call for Entries: 2025 Cooper River Bridge Run Design Contest

We are the Cooper River Bridge Run, the third largest 10K in the United States. Every year we have a design contest for the next year’s design. The winner receives $1,000 and the art is featured on all shirts and materials for over 30,000 people.
- All ages are welcome to enter. (Note that there will be no separate awards for children.)
- All media acceptable; winner to be reproduced and printed by 4-color process.
- Overall size should not exceed 30 x 30 inches. (Suggested is at least 20 x 30 so that it displays well with the other entries).
- Vertical orientations recommended (picture a tee shirt).
- We recommend the artist include the following text within or around the image area: 48th Annual / Cooper River Bridge Run 10K / April 5, 2025 / Charleston, SC
If your work is chosen as the winner and you don’t include text, the Bridge Run will have the text added. We reserve the right to rearrange your text if deemed necessary.
Entry
- Artwork is due no later than June 28, 2024.
- Artwork can be dropped off (Monday-Friday, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.) or mailed to: 716 5. Shelmore Blvd, Suite 105, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464.
- For People’s Choice judging, email a high-resolution photo of your artwork to info@bridgerun.com.
- All entries must be mounted on foam core.
- Print and complete the Cooper River Bridge Run Design Contest Form (image below); include your name, address, phone number, email address, and signature. Cut along the dotted line, and attach it to the back of your artwork.
- By entering the contest, you certify that this is your original work and give permission for this work to be reproduced for purposes of publicizing the Cooper River Bridge Run in all media.
- All artwork entries become the property of the Cooper River Bridge Run.
Awards
- Judges will be looking for one dynamic image to represent the Bridge Run on our poster, T-shirt, and all multimedia.
- Judges will meet in late July for the judging. The winning artist will be contacted in early August. The top three will receive an invitation to the August unveiling party where the winner will be announced.
- The winner will receive $1000, recognition, 100 posters, and 24 shirts.
- The winning entry will be framed and hung in the Cooper River Bridge Run office.