Call For Pizza Box Art
Entry fee $5
Family rate 4 boxes for $10
Drop Off: July 17-18, 2026
Exhibition: July 24 - August 7
End of Auction Pizza Party: Friday, August 7, 5-7pm
*Auction Ends at 6:00 PM, then awards given after and auction winners are welcome to pay and pick up their purchases.
$800 Cash Prizes + Fun Consolation Prizes announced at Pizza Party. Need not be present to win.
Competition Rules
- Pick up pizza box at CAC starting late April & pay entry fee.
- Box can be flat, open or closed, constructed or deconstructed, or incorporated in art. Pizza Box Art can be 2D or 3D or Popup. Medium can be painting, drawing, collage, popup art, mixed media, wall or table sculpture, or anything else you can imagine or create. All attachments must be secure.
- Must be ready to hang or to be placed on a pedestal.
- Write your name (+ age if kid) on the back of the piece AND enter artwork on online drop-off form.
- All pizza box art will be on display and auctioned off to the highest bidder at CAC.
- To get any Pizza My Art entries during the auction, including your own, you will need to win the final bid.
- Any artwork not picked up or claimed by August 8 at 4pm can be reclaimed by the artist.
- Pizza box art still unclaimed after Sunday, August 9 will be recycled.
Makers of all ages transform the common pizza box into extraordinary objects
This is our 6th Annual Community Art Competition & Auction and this year all the artwork will be on exhibit in our main gallery for two weeks. This delightful event and silent auction is a fundraiser for the Chico Art Center.
Pizza My Art is a playful way to engage with art and our community and over the last three years entries have really become quite extraordinary. For anyone entering the competition, it is a chance to stretch your imagination and to win cash awards, gift certificates for pizza, and consolation prizes. For art lovers and collectors, this exhibit and silent auction is an opportunity to view and acquire fun art for home or office.
As in previous years, our sponsors are Mountain Mike’s, Grana, Mulberry Station, Woodstock’s Pizza, Tio's, Rione, Burbon Kitchen and Farm Star Pizza. They have donated pizza boxes, gift certificates and in-kind prizes. Cash prizes were donated by Becky Williams, Marion Hunziker-Larsen and Nicolai Larsen.
Special thanks to Nicolai Larsen for initiating this popular programming at Chico Art Center and to Marion Hunziker-Larsen for graciously producing this fundraiser.
Last Year's Entries
