CONTEST FOR ARTISTS and ILLUSTRATORS - ITALY

[Mona Youssef]

Hello dear Members,

Here I am back from my trip to Italy where my exhibition was held at the art Museum in Tuscany. It has been a great experience of which I will update you shortly. It was a pleasure meeting and seeing some of you but my news entry now is to share this opportunities for artists and illustrators and hope that you will find it a great chance for you to participate.

CONTEST FOR ILLUSTRATORS - ITALY

Deadline: October 23 rd 2009

Finality of the contest is to select the thirty authors that will be protagonists of an exhibition in Cremona, Italy from the 9 to the 24 of January 2010. The thirty illustrations selected by the jury, will be published on the Calendar 2010, that also represents the catalog of the exhibition. Twelve images will represent the months of the year, others eighteen will be published in appendix. During the inauguration of the exhibition - January 9 th 2010 - the first prize of Euro 1000 will be assigned. Another prize of 300 Euro will be assigned to the author of the work more voted by the users of the web site of the event. You can participate in the contest sending a work of square format (minimum dimensions 25×25 cm., maximum of 40×40 cm.) by October 23 rd 2009. You can also participate sending digital images (dimension of 31×31 centimeters, minimum resolution of 300 dpi, TIFF or JPG) through the specific form on the web site. The theme of the contest is "crazy stuff": episodes, characters, real or imaginary situations that refer to something unbelievable, absurd, grotesque, foolish, exaggerated, paradoxical, eccentric…
Italian artists and foreigners, without any limit of age can participate to the contest. Every participant can introduce only 1 unpublished work, not winning or signaled in other contests.

For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com at the section "Opportunities”

INTERNATIONAL CONTEST FOR SHORT FILMS - ITALY
Deadline: October 15 th 2009
Various Italian institutions announce a contest of ideas open to the young artists for the realization of short films. 40 years have passed from the first man on the moon, visions of dreams that become projects. The technology that helps the dream to become project is the basic theme of the contest. The participation to the contest is free and reserved to young people or groups from 18 to 35 years old.

The contest has two sections:
Section Á. – Contest for short films
Section B - Video art and video installations out of the contest.
Every work, if in different language from Italian, will have to have Italian subtitles.
The followings prizes will be assigned To the works in contest:
- Prize of the Jury for the best short film: Euro 5.000,00
- Prize of the Public for the best short film: Euro 1.000,00;
- Special prize for the short film more in connection to the theme of the contest: Euro 1.000,00
The awarding will take place on October on the occasion of a dedicated Festival.
The works selected among those “out of contest” will be exhibited during the same Festival.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com at the section "Opportunities”

INTERNATIONAL ART COMPETITION AND EXHIBITION – UNITED KINGDOM
Deadline: 23 of October 2009
This competition and exhibition invites submissions from national and international artists practicing contemporary and conceptual art, inclusive of painting, installation, film, photography, print and sculpture.
The exhibition, of up to 40 shortlisted artists, will run from February 17- March 13 2010, at two venues in Cheltenham, United Kingdom.

There will be an opportunity for artists to participate in an educational programme with local schools and community groups and an artist's residency will be available in Cheltenham.
First prize of £1,500 and two additional prizes of £750.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com at the section "Opportunities”

CONTEST FOR ART WORKS - ITALY
Deadline: October 15 th 2009
An Italian association announces the 2nd Edition of the International Art Prize on the theme of the trash. The Contest is open to all the Italian Artists and foreigners, without limits of age.
The central theme must be intended over the "report" on the problems caused by the trash. Not anymore the phase of the emergency but a following and positive phase, based on the new use of the materials and the new face of our Cities. The Sections are two: Painting and Design.

SECTION PAINTING
The artists can choose of:
a) to realize the work with the technique of the trash art, literally "art done with the trash" on a free theme or on the theme of the trash. Obviously the artist can use also mixed techniques (es. oil and trash art)
b) to realize the work without the use of recycled materials, with a whatever pictorial technique (oil, acrylic, water-color, pencil, varnish, etc.) but in this case the theme will concern the environment. Max. dimensions allowed: 150 x 100.
- 1° Prize Section Painting - Prize-purchase of Euro 2000,00 gross
SECTION DESIGN
The artists can choose to realize an object of echo-design following the same parameters of the letter a) in the section painting. The dimensions cannot overcome the cm. 200 (height) x 100 x 100.
This section include also the installations (or rather works not necessarily functional) and works of urban furniture, as original proposals than can be experimented in the cities, with particular reference to the Christmas illuminations.

- 1° Prize Section DESIGN - Prize-purchase of Euro 2000,00 gross
The two winning works will become ownership of the organizing association and they will subsequently be exhibited at the Gallery Fumi in London.
Exhibition from October 22 to November 2 nd 2009 - Historical Center in Rimini, Italy.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com at the section "Opportunities”

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF SACRED PAINTING – ITALY
Deadline: 15 of October 2009
All Italian and foreign painters under the age of forty, as at the 31st of December 2009 may participate.
The themes of the competition are the following:
1)The sacredness of the Earth. The fate of our planet shaken in its vital equilibrium by man’s excesses. Pictorial comment on Psalm 24: “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world and all who live in it”.
2) The biblical theme of the Transfiguration in contemporary painting. The narration of Christ’s transfiguration holds a decisive central position in the three Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 17,1-8; Mark 9,2-10; Luke 9,28-36). Every artist may take part in both the proposed topics with only one work for each of them achieved with the technique considered individually considered most appropriate. All works must be of the following dimensions otherwise they will be excluded from the competition: 100 x 100 cm or 120 cm high x 80 cm wide. The proposed prize is a single and indivisible purchase-prize of €6000 (six thousand) for each one of the two sections.

An elegant catalog will be produced illustrating all the 20 chosen works and there will follow an exhibition. The opening will take place on Saturday 19th December 2009. The exhibition will last from 19th December 2009 to 25th January 2010. The winners will be proclaimed on Saturday 9th January 2010. The organizing committee will try the utmost to give an even greater aesthetic, liturgical and doxology completeness to the two winning works by exhibiting them throughout 2010 in public buildings and newly built churches and sanctuaries.

Using them as preliminary studies for works of much greater dimensions, the two winning artists will be invited to create them on larger scale employing the painting techniques they will consider most fit (e.g. fresco, oil on canvas, mosaics, etc.). All the executive aspects and details as well as the artist’s remuneration will be determined in a separate agreement between the interested parties.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com at the section "Opportunities”

Wish you all the best,

Mona Youssef
http://www.mona-gallery.com

[Deborah J. Boyd]

Your contribution to the Art World is outstanding. Thank you for all that you do.
Love, Deborah

[Mona Youssef]

Thank you Deborah for the nice and thoughtful message and appreciation. If we do not share what we have,then we have nothing.

All the best to you

Mona