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Purple Octopus Art, LLC is calling for 2D/3D art related to Anxiety, Depression, Trauma (including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), and other Mental Health diseases, such as – but not limited to – ADD, ADHD, BiPolar disorder, Schizophrenia, Eating disorders, Substance Abuse, Addiction, Post-Partum Depression, Prolonged Grief Disorder, and others.
Dates & Deadlines
Call Opened: Sep 1, 2024
Deadline: Dec 15, 2024
Results Communicated: Jan 15, 2025
Online Exhibition: Feb 15, 2025
Art Book Launch: TBD 2025
ENTRY FEES
$20/per entry, $40 for 3 individual entries.
No more than 3 entries per artist/author
All images entered are not guaranteed to be accepted.
ENTRY FEES ARE NOT REFUNDABLE
Payment is required at the time of entry.
IMAGE LABELING: Image should be labeled as Name of Artist_title_1. Example: Jane Doe_title_1 and/or Jane Doe_title_2...
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all international artists 18 years old and above.
MEDIA ACCEPTED
All 2D/3D artworks are accepted including, but not limited to painting, sculpture, digital, printmaking, fiber, photography and mixed media. Images must be in jpegs 300dpi on the longest side. One image per painting, drawing or photograph. Please make sure images are cropped correctly and we can see the details clearly. For Sculptures and other 3D works, please make sure the best angle of the sculpture is shown to give us the complete picture
Artworks/Writing containing pornographic or satanic content will not be taken into consideration.
Contest is open to all artists worldwide 18 years and over.
Entry must be related to the theme.
Images and expressive writing should be original work created by the artist.
AWARDS
CASH prizes will be given to three award winners in each category: art and writing.
Platinum: $100 USD
Gold: $75 USD
Silver: $50 USD
Honorable Mentions
Award certificates will be provided
Selected winning artists will be interviewed for blog posts to be published on the Purple Octopus Art website and via Purple Octopus Art social media sites.
Platinum winner will be the subject of a blog summarizing their works all together on MSA Experimental, an online platform that observes "creative phenomena" and carries a viewership of 250,000 hits per month. https://msa-x-2.msa-x.org
All artwork and expressive writing chosen will be published on the Purple Octopus Art website with information regarding the artist with a link to the artist/author website or intagram handle; as long as it is provided by the artist.
Purple Octopus Art will not sell any artwork. Interested parties can contact the artist/author directly.
CRITERIA FOR JUDGING
The artwork submitted will be judged based on the following elements of artistic expression:
1. Originality and quality of art
2. Demonstration of artistic ability
3. Interpretation of the theme
4. Creativity
TERMS & CONDITIONS
These terms and conditions constitute an agreement between "You" and Purple Octopus Art, LLC and purpleoctopusart.com. Submitting to our competition, you must agree to the following:
1. Your images will only be used for marketing, promotional, and display purposes for any show organized by Purple Octopus Art, LLC, including the printing of your artwork in the Art book specific to this competition.
2. You the artist agree to allow Purple Octopus Art, LLC to archive chosen work as part of exhibition. This will be available for public viewing on our website purpleoctopusart.com
3. The artist shall retain all copyrights of any image submitted to Purple Octopus Art, LLC and purpleoctopusart.com
4. All images on the site may not be reproduced in any manner without the permission of Purple Octopus Art, LLC and the relevant artist
5. Judges decisions are final.
(the link above will bring you to Zealous, a platform we use to collect applications)