CAST A LINE

When I moved to Gatlinburg around 3 1/2 years ago, I wouldn’t live anywhere without a mountain top view.  After several years up here, we are contemplating building a Storage Container house, and I really think I’m going to choose to live on the water this time–the river to be exact.  And, I promise it isn’t because of the abundance of River Trout, although they are yummy eats.

Check out this Call for Entries for the 2010 Susquehanna International Fine Art Competition whose theme is River Art this year.  There is no entry fee so buy a rod and reel and head to the river for a little “research.”  Take a look!

CALL for ENTRIES:  2010 Susquehanna International

This year’s theme of the Susquehanna International Fine Art Competition is “River Art.” All entries must contain a river, real or imagined, in their composition. 

This year’s sponsors include the Sunbury Press and West Shore Gallery.  Sunbury Press, based in Camp Hill, PA, is a publisher or trade paperback and digital books. Among their offerings, Sunbury has been producing an art book line for individual artists and for art contests.

West Shore Gallery, located in Wormleysburg, PA, is a fine art gallery featuring the work of well-known and emerging artists.

THEME:
All entries must contain a river,
real or imagined in their composition.
This could be any river in the world,
or one from mythology.
The river need not be
the dominant element.

MEDIA: All entries must be two dimensional. There is no minimum or maximum size.

DEADLINE:  December 10, 2010

ENTRY FEE:  There is no entry fee.

CATEGORIES: You may enter up to three entries in each category: Oil/Acrylic, Watercolor, Drawings/Sketches, Mixed Media/Collage, Traditional Photography (black & white or color, unembellished compositions), Digital (includes painterly effects, embellishments to photography).

SUBMISSIONS:

JPG File Specs: All entries will be JPG files of low resolution — no more than 1 MB per file. Typically this means no more than 4 inches to any side and a resolution of not more than 200 dpi.

Name your jpg files with your first name, underscore, last name, underscore file number. As an example: john_smith_1.jpg

Email Entries: Send 1 email per category. You may attach up to 3 images per category. Send each category entry in a separate email.

Information to include: In the title of the email, note the artist name & category. In the body, note the attached entries, their titles & years created.

PRIZES: Grand Prize: The top entry of the competition will receive a $250 cash prize and be used as the cover image for the book “River Art” to be published in January, 2011.  Category Winners: The top entry in each category will win $50 and be featured as the lead image in each chapter of the book “River Art” to be published in January, 2011.

JURORS: Monica Smith-Talbott, Prof. of Art, Harrisburg Area Community College. Erin Sparler, Prof. of Digital Arts, Central Penn College.

EXHIBITION: All selected entries will have an opportunity to exhibit their work at West Shore Gallery located directly across the Susquehanna River from Harrisburg, PA’s capital dome. West Shore Gallery hosts monthly exhibitions of well-known and emerging artists from around the country.

For full details, Visit the Website!