Newtown Arts Festival – September 21 & 22, 2013
"Iconic Newtown" Artwork Contest
Dear Newtown Artists,
The Newtown Arts Festival Artwork Selection Committee invites you to submit your artwork to our contest!
The winning submission will be used to promote the Arts Festival and will appear in businesses and public spaces around Newtown and surrounding towns. The artwork will also be printed on t-shirts and other items that will be available for purchase at the Newtown Arts Festival.
Imagine your own artwork promoting the 2013 Newtown Arts Festival!
Artwork Contest Guidelines and the Newtown Arts Festival Artwork Application are available on the newtownartsfestival.com website. Submissions are due to the Festival Artwork SelectionCommittee c/o Koenig FrameWorks, 97 South Main Street (Route 25), Newtown, CT 06470 beginning February 1 through February 16, 2013 during regular business hours (Monday through Saturday 10 AM – 5 PM). Late entries will not be accepted.
Please call Donna Mangiafico, Artwork Selection Committee Chairperson, at 203-788-7474 or email djmangiafico@aol.com if you have questions.
While we do not want to discourage creativity in any way, we do want you to be aware that the Artwork Selection Committee may disqualify many absolutely outstanding works of art simply because they do not fit technical requirements. The committee considers how artwork will look on a poster, t-shirt, and other promotional materials and merchandise.
Artwork must be beautiful as well as practical for it to work as our poster/t-shirt design.
• Do not use crosshatching as shading – very, very fine pen lines, spaced closely together in a crosshatching technique, are not cleanly reproducible on cloth. Unlike paper, t-shirt fabric is textured. The fineness of detail achievable is therefore limited in comparison to what can be achieved on the smooth surface of paper.
• Avoid watercolors – Soft gradations of color, such as what is seen in watercolor work are exceedingly difficult to reproduce in the t-shirt screen-printing process. Screen-printing is a stenciling process that relies on modulating the density of a spatter pattern of fairly large flecks of color to simulate gradations of color. The spatter flecks make watercolor reproduction onto a t-shirt inexact. When possible we will avoid selecting watercolors as winning entries.
• Don't use too much white – artwork is printed on colored fabric, not white. Thus, whenever white or pale tints of color are used in original artwork, white ink must be printed on the shirt. All of the subtleties of pale color seen in original artwork will not be reproducible on t-shirts.
• Dimensions should be roughly the same – Entries definitely do not have to be exact squares, but your submission should be pretty close in height and width dimensions. Panoramic artwork does not fit well on posters or t-shirts.
Good luck in creating your design and thanks for participating! Again, the deadline for submissions is February 16, 2013.
Sincerely,
Newtown Arts Festival Artwork Selection Committee