Deadline for Entries: July 20, 2023
HOWL. We love dogs. Show us your best art including dogs! These can be pet portraits, wild dogs, wolves, foxes, action shots, abstract digital works, sculptures of Humanity's Best Friends!
We are looking for 2D and 3D artwork that falls into a variety of art style and genre categories: Abstraction, Surrealism, Realism, Pop Art, Expressionism, Assemblage, and more!
This call for art is open to all international artists age 18 or over and working in any medium (except video and sound art). A wide range of genres and styles is desired. Our mission is to promote wildlife and animal art in both non-traditional and traditional forms. People have been creating art about animals for millennia. We exist to honor, promote, and uplift it.
As always, art may include more than just animals and insects. Feel free to incorporate humans, objects, landscapes, shapes, space, or anything else. The work just needs to fit the theme.
Be as literal or as creative with the theme as you like. Originality is one of the components we use to score entries.
CATEGORIES
Digital Art (includes digitally manipulated photographs)
Drawing and Pastels
Mixed Media
Painting
Photography
Printmaking
Sculpture
Other
AWARDS
Best in Show ($100 cash award)
Overall Runner Up
Overall Honorable Mentions
Special Merit Awards
Artivism Award
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for Entries: July 20, 2023
Notification of Jury Results: On or before August 1, 2023
Virtual Show Dates: August 2023
ENTRY INSTRUCTIONS
All entries must be the original artwork of the submitting artist.
Entries will be evaluated based on originality, technique, skill, relevance to theme, and quality of work. Please submit a quality image of the work for jurying. We can't review blurry art.
Artwork entered in our competitions is not required to be for sale. Any inquiries about a piece will be directed to the artist. We do not take any commission.
Policy: No nudity (private parts must be covered), no profanity, no animal cruelty, no gore, and no political artwork will be accepted for jury. Topics of animal conservation and environmental protection are not considered political for the purposes of Wild Heart Gallery.
IMAGE REQUIREMENTS
You may submit up to 4 images.
*For sculpture entries only, you may submit up to 3 additional views per piece. *For photographs, please note the make and model of the camera used and whether is film or digital.
Accepted File Types: JPG, PNG, GIF
Maximum File Size: 5 MB
Minumum File Size: 100 KB
Minimum Image Width or Height: 1000 px
This is an art competition. Only the award recipients will be in the online group exhibition.
Artwork for the exhibition will be selected by industry professionals, referred to as jurors. The jurors will vote based on the number of entries, criteria for this event (theme), originality, technique, skill, and quality of work.
Entry Fees (non-refundable):
$15 for 1-2 images
$20 for 3-4 images
AWARDS
Best in Show
Overall Runner Up
Overall Honorable Mentions
Special Merit Awards
Artivism Award
Best in Show receives $100 cash award and promotion on the following: Art Base, Art Week, Wild Heart Gallery’s (WHG's) growing social media and other online media channels, WHG's eNewsletter, and WHG's home page (for duration of the exhibition).
All award recipients receive promotion on Wild Heart Gallery’s (WHG's) growing social media/other online media channels and WHG's eNewsletter and inclusion in a virtual group exhibition that lasts at least one month. All award recipients also receive an award certificate, emailed as a PDF to the email address used for the submission process.
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TERMS OF ENTRY FOR ENTRANTS
Artist Entry Requirements:
Competitions are open to all artists age 18 or older
Entries must follow each individual competition theme
Each piece must be an original or a sold original
Entries must fit the selected medium requirement
Competitions are international
Files must be in JPG, GIF, or PNG format
Files may not exceed 5MB
Artwork images must be professionally photographed: cropped, no glare, no frames, no watermarks. Image quality really makes a difference.
Not mandatory, but it is preferred that artwork be completed within the last 2 years
Artwork must not have been included in Wild Heart Gallery's shows within the last year.
Entry fee based on the competition
Entry fees are non-refundable. No exceptions
Note: Wild Heart Gallery does not sell artwork; we promote it.
Jury Selection:
Jury Selection begins within 7 days after final entry date and ends within 15 days after final entry date.
Award recipients are the entered into an online group award exhibition that is published at a date sometime after final entry date.
The Jurors and Jury Process:
The Juror(s) of the art competition are art industry professionals.
There are several criteria for selection for the award exhibition. These include relevance to the theme, appropriate medium, originality, quality of work, technique, and technical skill. The goal is to have a cohesive, high quality virtual art exhibition that embraces various genres of animal and wildlife art. To make the experience enjoyable and worthwhile to artists, visitors, and more, we strive to select and display the artwork that best represents animal and wildlife art today. Please remember that this is a competition; only the best art will be selected for exhibition. Not all art that was entered will be included.
Copyright:
The artist retains all copyrights to their artwork without exception.