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STILL LIFE
International Juried Art Competition
May 2023

ART SHOW INTERNATIONAL GALLERY announces their all new "5th STILL LIFE" International Juried Art Competition. All visual artists from around the world are invited to submit their best artworks on the theme for inclusion in the exhibition. All types of art styles may be submitted, including both 2D and 3D works, painting, sculpture, digital, printmaking, fiber, photography, graphic, mixed media, as well as experimental and installation works.

Theme

The theme of this international juried art competition is STILL LIFE. This includes the art of commonplace objects which are either natural, such as food, flowers, plants, rocks, shells, and even dead animals, or man-made ones, such as books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc. Representational and abstract ideas based broadly on the theme, in any media, will be considered. Please note that you must be 18 years of age in order to participate in any of our events. See below for more details on submission guidelines.

Category

All types of visual arts will be considered, including but not limited to Painting & Mixed Media, Photography & Digital, and Sculpture & 3D Installation.

Deadline

The deadline for submission is April 30th, 2023.

Note that our deadlines are now firm and will NOT be extended

Awards & Prizes

Up to $1,500 in cash prizes will be given out to 40–75 artists.* The grant money will be unrestricted and may be used in any manner by the recipient artist. Depending on the number and quality of artworks submitted, the following prizes will be considered:

First Prize Award $100 - 200

Runner-Up Prize Award $75 - 150

Merit Prize Award $50 - 125

Talent Prize Award $25 - 100

Honorable Mention Award

Finalist Award

All award-winning artists, including Honorable Mentions and Finalists, will be given Certificates of Recognition.

* In case there are joint winners for any of the cash prizes the money will be split evenly among contestants. Similarly, if a category does not receive enough entries to be judged fairly within that category alone, it will be considered alongside other categories with sufficient entries. The final prize amount will depend on the total number of entries but will always be within the indicated range.

News Outlet and Social Media Promotions

ART SHOW INTERNATIONAL GALLERY guarantees to have your juried show featured in front of top TV, Print, Radio, and Digital media outlets, like The Boston Globe, Tampa Bay Times, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Gate, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Business Journals, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox affiliates, as well as other leading national outlets. This juried art competition page, including your artwork, will be marketed extensively, including press release utilizing the most expanded domestic distribution network.

Our press release will be distributed to over 6,300 online, local, regional, national, international, and industry media outlets, including Google News, Digital Journal, Associated Press, Benzinga, Yahoo! Finance, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and others, with expanded distribution to top local and regional publications across all 50 states in the US. Our full list of targeted publications can be found here.

Winners who do not qualify for cash prizes will still receive widespread global recognition through extensive promotion via social media, monthly newsletters, and news media mentioned above.

At the conclusion of the competition, winning artworks will be archived and considered for future publication as full page print editions in leading art magazines.

Fees

The entry fee for each artwork is $10 (non-refundable).

If you'd like to enter more than 10 artworks for consideration, please go back to fill in your details and submit again.

Timeline

Art Competition Open NOW

Deadline for Entries APRIL 30th, 2023 (WILL NOT BE EXTENDED)

Winner Notification Starts May 4th, 2023

Cash Prize Notification Starts** May 4th, 2023

Exhibition of Winning Artworks Starts May 5th, 2023

Cash Prize Distribution Starts*** May 23rd, 2023

Exhibition of Winning Artworks Ends May 31st, 2023

Winning Artworks Archived June 1st, 2023

** All cash prizes will only be given out via PayPal due to tax and other regulatory reasons. If you don't have a free PayPal account, you can create one HERE.

*** If you're one of our cash prize winners, we will notify you at your registered email we have on file asking you to submit a form with your verified PayPal email address. The cash will then be transferred directly to your PayPal account approximately 3 weeks after this email notification. In the past, artists have had issues receiving prize money in new and inactive PayPal accounts, so please double-check that you’re correctly setup with your bank for money transfer. In case the transaction gets canceled or reversed by PayPal, or if PayPal doesn’t allow us to transfer the money to your account for any reason, we may be unable to facilitate a repeat transfer. Please remember to mark our email info@artshowinternational.com in your safe messaging filter, and check your Spam or Junk emails regularly once the competition goes live so you don't miss out. We regret that any prize money not claimed by artists for any reason within 30 days from the start date of this exhibition will be forfeited. This is needed to allocate funds to support our continuing series of competitions and artist grants.

How to Apply

1. Choose the number of artworks you'd like to submit from one of the options below.

2. Click on the number of artworks and proceed to make a payment. You can pay by PayPal or credit card.

3. After successful payment, you'll be redirected back to where you can upload your images and other details.

NOTE: If you have any issues with your image submissions, please contact us at info@ArtShowInternational.com.

HOW MANY ARTWORKS ARE YOU SUBMITTING?

One of the fascinating art genres that make an aesthetic appeal to the art aficionados is still life. It can be a painting or an arrangement of still-life objects anywhere. The artists mostly choose flowers, fruits, or any objects we are surrounded by. This is an innovative style of modern art admired across the world. If you are an excellent still life artist then Art Show International is the best platform to participate in an exhibition. Over the years, we have become a leading portal for still life exhibition online!

We have created a perfect dimension for the budding and professional still life artists across the world. Inanimate objects are chosen and expressed by the artists in an innovative way to impress an audience. This art has a remarkable aesthetic value. In fact, the entries are often admired and chosen by contemporary art collectors for interior decoration.

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