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 6:30 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.
Makers of all ages transform the common pizza box into extraordinary objects
Pizza My Art turns pizza boxes into pure imagination. After six years, the entries continue to get wonderfully wild.
Got an idea, a joke, a masterpiece brewing? Enter the competition and turn a plain pizza box into your canvas. Winners walk away with cash prizes, pizza gift certificates, and a stack of fun consolation prizes — because everyone who dares to create deserves a little love.
Not the artsy type? Come be a collector instead. The exhibit and silent auction is packed with one-of-a-kind, affordable art that's perfect for your home, office, or that one blank wall you've been ignoring. Every piece tells a story.
Thank you to our sponsors for donating pizza boxes, gift certificates, and in-kind prizes: Mountain Mike's, Farm Star Pizza, Grana, and Rione Restaurant. Cash prizes were generously donated by The Art House, and Marion Hunziker-Larsen in Nicolai Larsen's memory.
Special thanks to Nicolai Larsen for initiating this beloved programming at Chico Art Center, and to Marion Hunziker-Larsen for graciously producing this fundraiser year after year.
Want to see this year's entries? Check out the discussion on our Facebook event page.
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.
