Create and Post Artwork focused on Nocturnal Lemurs from October 4 to 31, 2025!
Inspire the world to love lemurs and take action to save them from extinction through your artwork. Our challenge is open to all art forms: drawing, painting, photography, poetry, dance, collage … get creative!
Join the challenge by learning about different aspects of lemur biology, anatomy, behavior, and habitats through artwork and posting your work to social media.
This art challenge is part of our annual celebration of lemurs for the World Lemur Festival!
How To Win Prizes
At the end of the challenge, LCN staff will select 4 participants to win an item from the Lemur Conservation Network shops on Bonfire or RedBubble.
- Post your artwork on Instagram, Facebook, or BlueSky with the hashtags #WorldLemurFestival and #LemurArtChallenge
- Winners will be contacted on social media to select your prize and arrange for delivery.
* Prize winners are limited to geographic locations where our store partners ship. Unfortunately, our shops do not ship to Madagascar. We can custom print an item for winning artists in Antananarivo, Madagascar only.
Weekly Themes for the 2025 Lemur Art Challenge
Focus on Nocturnal Lemurs and Madagascar at Night
This year’s World Lemur Day is on Halloween — embrace your inner night owl and add spooky elements to your artwork if you wish! Find the themes below, along with questions to inspire your artwork.
Week 1: Madagascar Animals at Night
October 4 to 10
Focus on Madagascar forest scenes at night. What lemurs would you see in the Malagasy forest at night? What other animals might you also find in the forest? What do Madagascar’s nocturnal animals do in the forest at night?
Week 2: Nocturnal lemurs, Cheirogaleidae family
October 11 to 17
Focus on the Cherogaleidae family of nocturnal lemurs: mouse lemurs, fork-marked lemurs, and woolly lemurs. Have you seen any of these species at your local zoo? Which of these lemurs is most interesting to you? Do any of these species live among each other in the same habitat?
Week 3: Nocturnal lemurs, Lepilemur and Daubentonia family
October 18 to 24
Focus on the Lepilemur and Daubentonia families of nocturnal lemurs: sportive lemurs and aye-ayes. Do these lemur species have any unique traits that you could highlight?
Week 4: Lemurs and Halloween!
October 25 to 31
Focus on lemurs and Halloween or Autumn.
- Costumes and Pumpkins: To celebrate Halloween, we encourage you to create lemur costumes and carve your pumpkins with lemur designs!
- Artwork: For artwork, how might you depict lemurs in your artwork among pumpkins, fall leaves, or something else that reminds you of Halloween?
Our Featured Artists: Catmouse James and Jessie Jordan
We are honored to have Jessie Jordan and Catmouse James guiding us through our Lemur Art Challenge on social media this year!
About Catmouse James
Catmouse James is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Madagascar. She has published internationally with her comic book in three volumes “Ary” printed at 4,000 copies each. She is regularly invited abroad, notably to the Angoulême International Comics Festival and the Cyclone BD Festival in Reunion. She also holds drawing and comic book workshops at the French Institute of Madagascar, within the Alliances Françaises across Madagascar.
About Jessie Jordan
Jessie has been living in Madagascar since 2019. Jessie has created artwork for Madagascar National Parks, Cheetah Conservation Fund, Dallas Zoo, and more. Find Jessie on Instagram as creative.conservationist and on YouTube as jessie.jordan.
Jessie says, “Lemurs have inspired dozens of my paintings and art pieces both big and small. I hope that my art helps inspire others to appreciate and protect lemurs and their natural habitat in Madagascar.”
