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DIRECT ART AWARDS
- Grand Prize: Front Cover and six page feature display.
- Second Prize: Back Cover and four page feature display.
- Awards 3-4: Four page feature.
- Awards 5-6: Double page feature display.
- Awards 7-20: Single full page display.
- Editors Awards: Additional pages, inside covers, mast head and outside covers may be assigned based on editorial selection.
The competition is open to all artists, national and international, working in all media. All forms of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, graphics, collage, fabric, digital and installation art are eligible. Video artists may submit video only if the work can be represented in print form. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older to apply.
PUBLICATION TERMS
Winning artists will be published in the fall 2012 edition of Direct Art Magazine. The magazine will be distributed by COMAG Marketing Group, the distributors of Art News and Art in America to book and magazine stores across the USA. The issue will be on display and available in stores from October 2012 - January 2013. Featured artists will also be displayed on the Direct Art web site for one year. Artist retains all copyrights to the artwork and the image will not be reproduced or used in any other format. Direct Art will claim no percentage on any artwork sold or business generated through the magazine.
ENTRY FEE
There is a $35.00 entry fee for one to four artworks entered, presentation is by digital files or prints. There is a $5.00 fee for each additional artwork above four. Details of 2D artwork count as an additional artwork. Sculptors may provide one additional view per artwork without cost. Artists accepted for publication will not be charged additional fees of any kind.
IMAGE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All entries are via email or by mail.
Email submissions must be in JPG format, or...
Submission by mail is by prints, digital images on CD or DVD.
DEADLINE & APPLICATION
Visit Direct Art 19 Competition website [Apply-on-Line] for complete details and entry form.
The postmarked deadline is March 31, 2012. Entries must be postmarked or submitted via email by this date.
Email questions to slowart@aol.com.
NOTIFICATION
Artists will be notified of acceptance or non-acceptance no later than April 30, 2012. Notification will be made via email and via web post.
Visit Direct Art 19 Competition website
