ChotaMota Art Program 18 (AP 18) will be open for 22 days – from 10 October to 31 October. Anybody, from anywhere, in the age group of 15 to 27, can take part!
Submit your entries at any time during this period.
There is no entry fee.
The Foundation does not stake any copyright claim on the items of artwork entered in the art programs.
Award
Select entries to the art program shall be accorded financial awards and will be put on display on this website. Only one award will be conferred to a participant for the best among the art works submitted by her/ him in an art category. There are four kinds of awards:
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Trailblazer |
[Rs. 5,000] |
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Dream Spinner |
[Rs. 4,000] |
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Master Crafter |
[Rs. 2,500] |
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Budding Weaver |
[Rs. 1,000] |
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(only for age-group 15-17) |
CMF art programs are NOT competitions. The entries are therefore not ranked as first, second etc.. Instead, a three-member jury is appointed to evaluate each art work independently on its own merit. Based on the jury’s evaluation, each of the select entries is graded in one of the above four award-categories.
ChotaMota Art Programs 2021
Specifics:- AP 18 includes two Art categories :-
Opens on: Sunday 10 October 2021
Closes on: Sunday 31 October 2021
Results on: Sunday 12 December 2021
Catchphrases
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Fear to delusion |
ভয় থেকে ভ্রান্তি |
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Fundoo |
মজারু |
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Carefully careless |
গুছিয়ে অগোছালো |
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Dance, tethered bear … dance! |
নাকে দড়ি, পায়ে ঘুঙুর |
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“… I contain multitudes” |
আমার মাঝে হাজার বসত করে |
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If I could travel back in time! |
ফিরে যদি যাই ফেলে আসা দিনে |
You are free to choose any of the listed Catchphrases for Cartoon & Caricature and Creative Writing.
Catchphrases are not to be interpreted literally. Be as creative as possible in your interpretation and application.
Give vent to your ideas freely… and shape your creation taking cue from the catchphrases.
More about catchphrases ….
- For both art categories, you may send at most one entry on a theme of your choice. Additional (one or two) entries must be using Catchphrases. You may as well use only Catchphrases for all your entries.
- Same Catchphrase may be used for more than one
- Catchphrases are not topic or theme; they are just to stimulate the thinker in you.
Cartoon & Caricature
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As we see, “Cartoons and Caricatures” express one’s comic / satiric / critical / tender thoughts, graphically depicts one’s fond imaginings or horrific visualisations in an exaggerated style highlighting distinctive features or comically distorted illustrations of admirable / adorable / abhorred celebrities or lesser-known humans / non-humans in any medium of graphic arts, including digital arts and 3D caricatures |
Pick the Catchphrases and/ or a theme of your own choice and give shape to your thoughts!
Submit a jpeg version of your creation. Do not send the original artwork now. But it must be kept ready for submission when required.
The participants need not send their 3D entries as such. Instead, photograph(s) of the 3D work, from all sides, must be submitted after converting to jpeg version.
For lesser-known subjects, the participants should also send a good photograph of the subject along with the entry proper for reference after converting to jpeg version.
Accompany your entry with a short (within 50 words) write up about it.
Please, mention the following in the write up accompanying your Artwork :
- What according to you is the most innovative aspect of your entry
- What prompted you to do it
- Technical details of your Artwork: e.g medium (oil, acrylic, digital, mixed etc.) and size (not applicable for digital work).Please, note that your file size be preferably less than 1MB.
Creative Writing( Bangla and English)
Pick the catchphrase of your choice or choose your own theme. Express whatever way you wish to –
- a story of your own or a fairy tale or a folklore you like to retell in your own way, or
- a travelogue of a known or unknown place, or
- a dialogue/ monologue of characters – living or imaginary, or a sheer fantasy.
in prose or poetry and in not more than 500 words.
Just make a .pdf version and send it to us. Don’t mention your name on it.
What exactly are you to do?
- Question the commonplace and express your ideas in any of the above two art categories.
- Send us a maximum of 3 entries you want in one or both the art categories.
- Don’t repeat entries if you’ve already sent them to ChotaMota
- Send those creations only completed within last six months.
- Make sure what you submit is a composition of your own creation, and speaks truly to you.
- Feel free to borrow ideas from others and acknowledge, but don’t reproduce others’ work in entirety.
How can you submit your artwork?
On-line submission:
- For Cartoon & Caricature, if the entry you would like to submit is originally developed on an electronic medium, please convert it into a JPEG file. Otherwise, if the original is on a physical medium (like paper and canvass), first scan it or photograph it and then convert the photo or the scanned copy into a JPEG file.
- For Creative Writing, send the PDF version . Don’t write your name on it.
- Click Upload Entry to submit your entry.
Submission by post or by hand:
If you intend to submit your entry by post or by hand, you should send your entry along with a duly filled-in registration form. Click here for registration form. In case you are not able to get copy of the registration form, please contact us.
You may contact here:-
The ChotaMota Foundation
3/6/1 S.M Ali Road,
Barrackpore – 700120
West Bengal, India
9836568902
