T-Shirt Design Contest
Show us your artistic side! This is your chance to have your artwork featured on an Alberta SPCA t-shirt! Our theme for 2025 is ‘Animals Teach and Inspire Us!’ Use your creativity to design original artwork that highlights how you have learned from or been inspired by an animal. Three winning designs will be selected to have their artwork printed on t-shirts that will be made available to the public to purchase across Alberta! Proceeds from t-shirts sold will go towards helping animals across Alberta.
The artwork must include a pet or farm animal(s) and convey what the animal has taught or inspired.
The choice of medium is up to you! You could use drawing, painting, digital illustration, etc. When deciding on the medium, keep in mind how your finished design will look printed on a t-shirt. All submissions must be submitted digitally and the files must be at least 300 DPI (dots per inch) for printing, so please submit high quality images.
An artist statement must also be included with the design describing what the animal has taught or inspired.
Keep your original artwork until April 30, 2025. The winners may be asked to provide their original (non-digital) version for printing purposes.
Prizes and Winners’ Showcase
Three selected winners will each have their design printed on t-shirts that will also be available to the public! Each winner (and their teacher/guardian) will receive a t-shirt with their design.
The prize recipients will also have their artwork included in Alberta SPCA publications, and on the Alberta SPCA website and social media.
Judging Criteria
- Creativity and originality
- Connection to theme
- Suitability for a t-shirt
- Quality of design appropriate to grade level of student

Artwork: The artwork must fit on a letter size paper (27.9cm x 21.59cm) and can be either landscape or portrait. The digital file uploaded must be at least 300 DPI (dots per inch).
Eligibility: This contest is open to all students (K-12) in Alberta. Entries must be submitted by a teacher or parent/guardian.
Permission: Entry into this contest signifies the entrant’s willingness to allow the Alberta SPCA to use and display the entry on their websites and for future promotional and educational purposes.
How to enter: Fill out the form and upload your submission or email your submission to education@albertaspca.org. Entries must be submitted by a teacher or parent/guardian.
Deadline to enter: April 15, 2025
Resources for Teachers
Introduce this project with the discussion questions found in the Animals Teach and Inspire Us Teacher’s Guide. Then, as a class or in small groups, brainstorm a list of things that students have learned from animals or how they have been inspired by animals. These ideas can spark the creativity needed for their designs, or students can come up with their own ideas.
Download and print the Alberta SPCA T-Shirt Design Contest Poster to hang in your classroom!
Alberta Artist Panel
The entries will be reviewed by a panel of Alberta SPCA staff and the following three Alberta artists.
Macha Abdallah is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Kigali, Rwanda, and Edmonton, Alberta, AB. Known for her dynamic visual art, Macha works with diverse mediums, including acrylic on canvas, digital art, mixed media, and large-scale murals. Her self-taught artistic journey is marked by an exploration of portraits, landscapes, and semi-abstract imagery, each piece infused with vibrant colors and profound emotion.
Macha’s work has been showcased in prominent collaborative projects, including the 5 Artists 1 Love exhibition at the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Lulu Lane alley mural, and the Dignity Mural project in downtown Edmonton’s city center LRT. These initiatives highlight her commitment to fostering community engagement through public art.
Macha Abdallah aspires to add beauty to the world through her art, using her unique perspective to inspire and uplift those who experience her work.
Gloria Ho is a watercolour painter based in Edmonton, AB. She aims to make things that are joyful, inviting, and that bring a smile to people’s faces. Gloria has been painting for most of her life and started selling her artwork in 2014. She particularly enjoys painting portraits.
In addition to painting, Gloria has spent over ten years as an educator teaching English abroad and to newcomers to Canada. She is currently finding the balance as a teacher, mom, and artist.
Gloria designs and paints the poster for our Character Education Classroom Poster Series.

Aimee Movold is an artist born and raised on Treaty 6. Art has always been a source of self-expression and relaxation for her. She has her diploma in fine arts from MacEwan University. Aimee draws much of her inspiration from her culture and from nature, and her favorite medium is painting with acrylic and drawing.
Aimee designed the logo for the jerseys worn by the Devon Xtreme AJHL hockey team on their Truth and Reconciliation Night and lead a group of students at Riverview Middle School in the painting of a mural in their school.
Aimee also designed the artwork for the two-week exploration of The Seven Sacred Teachings resource.