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Las Cruces Space Festival: Art Contest -- 2025

The Las Cruces Space Festival's annual space art poster contest is open to students K-12. The 2025 theme, ‘The Nature of Space,’ portrays the beauty of the Universe and the excitement of space exploration. Our winner was Miguel Perez, a 5th grader from Columbia Elementary School.

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  • A colorful abstract painting filled with swirling bands of orange, red, purple, and pink paint representing nebula clouds. Scattered across the page are a grey cratered moon, a solid black planet, a blue planet with stars, and a dark cratered planet in the top right corner. A yellow sunburst fills the top left corner. At the bottom are two green alien characters, a black mushroom-like shape, and a grey astronaut with a large round visor. Small star shapes are scattered throughout, and the background is left white in places to show through the painted bands. by Damien Ponce

    Damien Ponce's Poster

  • A detailed pencil drawing titled "The Nature of Space" at the top of the page in bubble letters made of trees and mushrooms. Below, a large ringed planet covered in grass, flowers, and vines fills the bottom half of the page, with a tree and a tiny astronaut standing on top of it and a round moon-like patch on its surface. In the upper right is a smaller planet entirely covered in mushrooms and mushroom-covered ridges. Scattered around the page are a small ringed planet, a tree growing out of a round planet, a striped planet, a comet, and many small sparkle and star shapes. The entire piece is rendered in pencil with no color. by Iker Ponce

    Iker Ponce's Poster

  • There are 3 meteors, 9 planets, and the sun in this drawing. 2 of the 3 meteors have flames coming out of the back of them and then there is one that does not. The background is a lighter shade of black and there are a few stars placed randomly. by Manuel Pulido

    Manuel Pulido's Poster

  • A watercolor wash of teal and purple covers the whole page, with several plain circular planet outlines scattered across it: a reddish-brown oval at the top, a grey circle in the upper right, a green-and-grey circle divided into sections on the left, a blue-grey circle in the center, a blue-grey circle on the right, and a large ringed planet in teal and purple at the bottom left. The background itself is the main feature, blended in shades of teal, purple, and white. by Gabriel Rodriguez

    Gabriel Rodriguez's Poster

  • In the center of this drawing is a big yellow sun with shiny rays coming off of it. Surrounding the sun are 3 planets, the moon, and an astronaut wearing a grey suit with a black visor. One of the planets is Earth, one is red with the bottom quarter of it being black, and the last one is blue with a ring around it. The background of this drawing has a mix of pink, purple, orange, yellow, red, and black. by Jazmarie Rodriguez

    Jazmarie Rodriguez's Poster

  • The name "Bella" is written in the top left corner, and handwritten text in the top right corner reads "Space Nature Las Cruces" next to a small red flower. In the center is an astronaut floating in a grey spacesuit with a blue-tinted helmet visor, holding what looks like a red telescope or horn with a small face on the end. The astronaut is connected by a curled grey tube to a purple-and-blue rocket sitting on top of a large grey cratered moon in the upper left. A purple-and-grey striped planet floats in the top right, and three small ringed planets in tan, blue, and brown sit along the bottom, with a blue-and-green Earth in the bottom right corner. by Bella Rose Tarin

    Bella Rose Tarin's Poster

  • This drawing is just of deep space, there are no spaceships or planets. There are stars placed randomly around the drawing. It is very detailed and it looks like you are looking at a galaxy or something else like that. There are black, blue, yellow, purple, and orange in the cosmic clouds. by Kira Sanchez

    Kira Sanchez's Poster

  • Earth, the sun, Saturn, and both a red and blue planet are featured in this drawing. Earth and the sun are off in the distance while the main attraction is what looks to be some type of rover on the red planet. The outerspace background of the drawing is a mix of blue, pink, and purple. by Nathaniel Sanchez

    Nathaniel Sanchez's Poster

  • In this drawing you can see a floating astronaut in a grey suit with red gloves tethered to his red rocketship. He is right in front of a big red planet with black dots or craters. All around the planet are yellow stars placed randomly in the background. The top half of the background is purple and the bottom half is red. by Lexi Shelton

    Lexi Shelton's Poster

  • An astronaut seen from behind, with dark hair, a red-and-yellow striped suit with a yellow backpack, and yellow knee pads, stands with arms spread on top of a blue-and-teal planet. To the right is a red-and-white rocket with a black-and-yellow window and red wing flaps, along with a grey axe-like tool with a striped blue-and-purple handle. Black star bursts are scattered across the background, which is shaded in purple and pink. by Alia Solis

    Alia Solis's Poster

  • There are 2 spacecrafts in this drawing, one looks like a UFO that is being piloted by a dog and the other one is a human spaceship with the astronaut tethered to it hanging down. There are 2 planets in this drawing, one is Earth and the other one is Saturn. There are 5 stars placed randomly in the black background and the sun is in the top left corner. by Lillien Soltero

    Lillien Soltero's Poster

  • A drawing showing an astronaut on the moon getting ready to plant the American flag with his spacecraft to his right. Earth is in the background and outerspace is a mix of blue purple and wihte. by Unknown Student

    One Small Step

  • A pencil-shaded hillside sits at the bottom of the page, with a small rocket flying above it in the sky, which is colored in blue and purple pencil. Along the top of the hill are several alien dwellings: a yellow dome with an antenna, a red dome with an antenna and round windows, and two small green alien characters with antennae standing between them. by Emily Telles

    Emily Telles's Poster

  • The sun, Earth, and Saturn are also in this drawing as well as a rocketship flying behind the astronaut. The background is black with stars all around. by Romina Tena

    Romina Tena's Poster

  • In this drawing there are 3 objects which are Earth, the moon, and the sun. In this drawing the words "The Nature of Space" are written on the Earth in pink lettering. There appears to be an eclipse occuring because the moon is partially covering the sun. The background of this drawing is shaded in with black crayon. by Julissa Torres

    Julissa Torres's Poster

  • A white-and-red rocket with a yellow window and a yellow lightning-bolt-shaped flame launches from the top of the page, trailing a long white curve that connects down to an astronaut standing on a grey cratered moon. A speech bubble near the astronaut reads "How is that growing there?" next to a yellow-leaved tree growing on the moon's surface. The background is shaded in purple and blue. by Eli Tovar

    Eli Tovar's Poster

 
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