Check out award-winning designs by kids! Three-dimensional models created by university students and based on imaginative designs by grade school artists are now on display to the public at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California, and the Toyota Center for Innovation in STEM Education on campus at the California State University Dominguez Hills […]

Teachers! Enter Student Artworks for Your Chance to Win Prizes! Teachers who enter student artworks from their classrooms to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest are eligible for prizes to support their professional development. Check out these opportunities for art educators! SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR TEACHERS! SchoolArts is a national art education magazine committed to promoting excellence, […]

Young Artist Wins Petersen Prestige Award & Silver Award in FY22 Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest! Imagine a futuristic world where everything from aquariums to mansions to opera houses is located inside of a flying cube, connected together like building blocks. Fifteen-year-old Kaitlyn Chen of Medina, Washington did just that with her futuristic “Building […]

Young Artist Wins Award in FY22 Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest! A car designed as a mythical creature with shelters in its wings where people could escape world calamities helped Rebecca Liu, age 10, Santa Clara, California win first place in her age category for her “The Dragon Car” artwork in the FY22 Toyota […]

Young Artist Wins Award in FY22 Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest! What if one day you saw a spaceship-like creation, sailing above the city skyline, extracting various trash and objects while turning them into a new nature sanctuary? This vision by 14-year-old artist Kayli Wong from Bellevue, Washington brought her the Bronze Award with […]

Young Artist Wins Silver Award in FY22 Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest! The simple mechanics of how a common household appliance could be applied and adapted as a vehicle to clean the world and spread happiness was the basis of an award-winning transportation design by a 10-year-old girl from Hammond, Louisiana. Kai Sheng’s innovative […]

“Space Eco Car” Wins Silver Award in FY22 Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest! With intergalactic exploration becoming more popular and accessible by the public and private sectors, many have set their sights on space! As cosmic construction is being built outside our planet, it seems logical that the ecological practices of our world’s new […]

“Ocean Cleaning Vehicle” Wins Bronze Award in 2022 Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest! A 5-year-old had a dream of an idea for a car that created an ecosystem in which killer whales could thrive. Taking the inspiration from a family vacation combined with her love of the sea, Emily Yi from Wellesley, Massachusetts won the […]

Driven to Drive Sustainability Through Art Art has the power to change the world. For 14-year-old Danica Lilly Ball of Chicora, Pennsylvania, through her anime-themed artwork “Steer Clear and Steam Forward into the Future,” she hopes to drive awareness of the need to regenerate our planet’s ecosystems and protect our wildlife.  Young Artist Wins Inaugural […]

Get your kids’ creative engines started! Unpack the art supplies, unbuckle imaginations, and kickstart the freewheeling designs of what your kids think cars should look like in the future. Then, enter their hand-drawn, painted, or digital artworks in the 2023 Toyota Dream Car USA Youth Art Contest. Artwork submissions created by youth, ages 4-15, are […]