Artist of the Month Contest
Grab your paints, clay, pencils, camera—whatever medium you use—and turn up your creativity! We're looking for teen girls to publish in Teen Voices! Compete with teen artists around the world to become one of 12 Teen Voices Artist of the Month semi-finalists. Then go head-to-head for the title Teen Voices Artist of the Year!SCHOLARSHIP to a three-week summer art program in Boston? Want to collaborate with other teen artists at a professional art school?
The top prize is a full scholarship (tuition, room, and board) to the renowned SMFA's Pre-College Summer Art Studio—a $4,000 value!
What's in it for you?
- The chance to receive instruction and college credit at the SMFA's Pre-College Summer Studio. Students come from all over the world to immerse themselves in an interdisciplinary approach to artmaking. Upon completion, you will receive three college credits!
- $250 worth of art supplies from Blick Art Materials-Boston if you win.
- Group exhibition opportunities—viewing of your work through multiple venues.
- An audience of more than 1,600 Facebook fans.
- Feedback on your work from our panel of judges and Teen Voices voters.
- Publication—your artwork could be published in our online and/or print magazine, with exposure to 102,000 annual web visitors and 45,000 print readers!
- Motivation to explore new media, improve your skills, and develop a portfolio of work that could help you get into the school of your choice.
- Inspiration from peers and their work.
- Prizes!
Each Artist of the Month winner will be awarded:
- Teen Voices Artist of the Month T-shirt
- One-year membership to Teen Voices (includes two issues of the print magazine, monthly e-communications, and more!)
- Publication in our online magazine
- Exhibition opportunity at Blick Art Materials in Boston
The final Artist of the Year will be awarded:
- Full scholarship to SMFA's three-week Pre-College Summer Studio in 2013
- Consultation with professional artists working in a variety of media
- $250 gift certificate to Blick Art Materials-Boston
- Participation in a group exhibition at SMFA
- Publication in our print magazine
- Use of your artwork as the catalyst for a Teen Voices writing contest.
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Is there a specific theme? Or do you create your own?
There's a different theme each month for the Artist of the Month contest. The first theme, for art due by Jan. 31, is girls in schools.
What is the Theme for Jan 2012?
Girls in Schools. We hope you submit!
Are we allowed to know what each theme is for each month beforehand? (For example, knowing all 12 themes in this month time, January) Or can we only know when it is currently that month?
Also, in order to qualify, are you required to send at least one work of art per month or can you skip some months and not send anything but still be eligible for Artist of the Month or Year since you still sent work during other months (For example, not sending anything in January but submitting pieces in March and June)? Thanks
We hope to post the themes for all 12 months within the next week or so...We are still finalizing them. We will let you know as soon as we know!
You may submit as often as you want. You definitely do not need to submit something every month to be eligible to be Artist of the Year. Our facebook readership will vote among the 12 semi-finalists next Jan (2013) and the artist with the most votes will win Artist of the Year. So the more artwork you submit each month between now and then, the more likely your artwork will be selected as Artist of the Month, the stepping stone to being Artist of the Year...
where should we submit work concerning this contest please?
oh and please,if we submit our work(any work other than this contest) how do we know if it's gonna be published or not?thanks
To submit artwork for the contest, go to our home page, and on the right under "recent stories" click on "Enter Our Artist of the Month Contest"
then click the button at the top where it says "Want to enter the contest? Submit your art here!"
or go directly to this page by going to:
http://www.teenvoices.com/2012/01/03/submit-your-art/
For more info on the January theme and the guidelines, go to: http://www.teenvoices.com/2011/12/16/january-artist-of-the-month-contest/
Hi-
When you submit artwork or written work, we review it and if it is going to be published, either online or in the print magazine, we will notify you.
Do you know what the 12 themes of the contest are? Also, what is this month's theme? If you could let me know that would be great!
The theme for February is love. To see the list of all the themes, go to:
http://www.teenvoices.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Art-Contest-Theme-download.pdf
Good luck! We can't wait to see your entry!
hey,plz how do you choose Artist of the year?Based on what?
Thanks
PLease according to what do you choose artist of the year ?
Thanks
What is the cut off date each month?
The 12 Artists of the Month will be semi-finalists for the Artist of the Year. Next January (2013), our Facebook followers will vote among these 12 artists/pieces of art to determine the winner.
The cut off date each month is midnight on the last day of the month.
Does the entry have to be visual art, or can it be a piece of writing?(:
For the Artist of the Month contest, your art needs to be visual art (or a photo of it, if it's something like a sculpture). If you have a piece of writing you'd like to share, we'd love to see it! Just submit it through our home page where the photo of the pencils is and it says "get published" (in the grey horizontal bar). Thanks
Hi I was curious as to what is the currant theme? also, when is the deadline for each month?
the publishing policay says "Submission of any Work for publication in Teen Voices shall confer upon Teen Voices a royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferrable license to reproduce, display and publish your Work, and to authorize others to reproduce, display and publish your Work, in any manner, medium or form."
Does this mean you'll actually lose the rights to the work you posted and 'give" it to Teen Voice. If not, does it still allow Teen Voice to, for instance, make prints out of it and sell them (so for commercial use). I'd really like to know this before I post my work up here