ChotaMota Art Program – 29 (AP-29) will remain open for 21 days – from 31 August to 21 September 2024. 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. Award money for the art programs have been recently scaled up. The new award structure is:
Award category |
Amount (Rs.) |
Trailblazer |
7000 |
Dreamspinner |
5000 |
Mastercrafter |
3000 |
Budding Weaver (only for age-group 15-17yrs. and first timers) |
1000 |
Only one award will be conferred to a participant for the best among the jury-recommended art works submitted in an art category.
For the FIRST-TIMERS:
A first-time participant in an art category may get a Budding Weaver award, if none of his / her entries qualifies for a higher award and one of them meets the minimum standard set for an award.
For the other participants in Photography and Cartoon & Caricature :
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.
Specifics
AP-29 includes two Art categories :-
Opens on: Saturday 31 August 2024
Closes on: Saturday 21 September 2024
Results on: Sunday 03 November 2024
CATCHPHRASES for all the three Art Categories :
English |
বাংলা |
Delayed justice … denied justice |
বিচারে দেরি … বিচারে দাঁড়ি |
Put on sunglass as thousand lights flash |
ঝলকায় হাজার আলো কালো চশমা পরে ফেলো |
Story of “fire” |
আগুনের ইতিহাস |
Thank god! Mind is not seen in a mirror |
ভাগ্যিস আয়নায় মন দেখা যায়না |
Fly in the sky … barriers they defy |
ছক-ভাঙ্গাদের ইচ্ছেডানা |
What if we go back to childhood |
ঠাকুরমার ঝুলি আবার যদি খুলি |
You are free to choose any of the listed Catchphrases for Photography and Ca toon & Caricature . 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 Photography and Cartoon & Caricature you may send at most one entry on a theme of your choice. The other entry must be using a Catchphrase. You may as well use Catchphrases for both the entries. Same Catchphrase may be used for more than one art category or two entries in the same Art category.
Catchphrases are not topic or theme; they are just to stimulate the thinker in you
Photography:
Pick the Catchphrases and/ or a theme of your choice and get the image with your phone or camera.
- Capture the magic in the world as it is OR create a vision with your own photographs on your laptop.
- Make sure that the submitted image be 1024 x 768 pixels (longer side), with resolution 72 dpi saved as jpeg.
- The image should be converted to a RGB color space and must not exceed 1 MB.
- Photographs with borders, watermarks, frames, or name/signatures will not be accepted.
CC
Cartoon & Caricature:
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. The write up is to contain the following:
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WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU TO DO?
- Question the commonplace and express your ideas in any of the above three art categories.
- Send us a maximum of 2 entries you want in one or both the art categories. More than two entries for an art category would stand disqualified.
- Don’t repeat entries if you had already sent them to ChotaMota; the entries will then be disqualified.
- Send only those creations 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. You will be disqualified if you are found to do so.
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 Otherwise, if the original is on a physical medium (like paper and canvas), first scan it or photograph it and then convert the photo or the scanned copy into a JPEG file and send us.
- For Photography, send the Photograph saved as JPEG with specifics mentioned above.
- Click Upload Entry to submit your entry.
You may contact here:
The ChotaMota Foundation
3/6/1 S.M Ali Road,
Barrackpore – 700120
West Bengal, India.
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