Newtown Cultural Arts Commission To Award $750 for Original Art for the 2015 Newtown Arts Festival

The Newtown Cultural Arts Commission will be awarding $750 for new, original art that illustrates Newtown Arts & Culture.  This competition is open to any artist, of any age, from anywhere. The winning image will be used to promote the 2015 Newtown Arts Festival and will appear in businesses and public spaces around Newtown and surrounding towns. 

The image will also be printed on t-shirts, posters, and other items that will be available for purchase at the Newtown Arts Festival with the winning artist having the opportunity to sell his work in the Commission tent during the Arts festival.

The Artwork Competition Guidelines and the Newtown Arts Festival Artwork

Applications are available on the http://newtownartsfestival.com website.

Submissions are due to the Festival Artwork Selection Committee c/o Koenig FrameWorks, 97 South Main Street (Route 25), Newtown, CT 06470 beginning Feb. 1 through Feb. 15, 2015 during regular business hours (Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.). Late entries will not be accepted. Please call Donna Mangiafico at 203-788-7474 or email her at djmangiafico@aol.com with any questions.

The 2014 winner, Julia Provey, commented about her entry, “I looked around Newtown and, from my imagination, I saw a musician, a juggler, an artist and a dancer, and they were all Newtown.” Her submission was a black and white caricature of these performers, all admittedly derivative of people she actually knows in Newtown.  One, well known musician Roger Sprung, went on to perform at the Festival.

Photo source: Newtown Cultural Arts Commission