Art Program schedule for 2025

ChotaMota Art Program – 30 (AP-30) will remain open for 16 days – from 01 February  to 16 February 2025. Anybody, from anywhere, in the age group of 15 to 27, can take part!

Submit your entries at any time during this period.

You may participate in all the three art categories. You may send a maximum of two entries in a particular art category.

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. The  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 Poster and Cartoon & Caricature : 

The participants awarded at least twice in the past will be considered only for Dreamspinner and Trailblazer awards.

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-30 includes three Art categories :-

 

 

Opens on:       Saturday 01 February 2025                    

Closes on:       Sunday 16 February 2025

Results on:      Sunday 06 April 

CATCHPHRASES for Poster and Cartoon & Caricature : 

English

বাংলা

Today in support, tomorrow in betrayal

সাথেও আছি, প্যাঁচেও  আছি       

A streak of light in the bowl of night

চিরে রাতের কালো, এক চিলতে আলো    

Lonely in the realm of reasons

যুক্তি-রাজ্যে একাকী                     

Those who can start afresh from zero

যারা সব শেষের পরে, আবার শুরু করে      

Oh, what a boring world

ভাল্লাগেনা ছাই          

Waiting room

ওয়েটিং রুম                           

There is no Catchphrase for Short Film.

You are free to choose any of the listed Catchphrases for Poster and Cartoon & 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 Poster and Cartoon & Caricature you may send at most one entry on a theme of your choice. The other entry must be using a Catchphrase. There is no Catchphrase for Short Film.  You may as well use two different Catchphrases or the same Catchphrase for the two entries in the same Art category or for different Art categories.

Catchphrases are not topic or theme; they are just to stimulate the thinker in you.

Poster: 

Make a statement of your own in form of poster using paint-brush or pencil or pen or your laptop. Pick the Catchphrases and/ or a theme of your choice and get going. You may choose any subject of your choice other than those that relate overtly to partisan politics. Send a jpeg of your creation. You need not send the original artwork now. But, the original art work and the raw files for digital works must be kept ready for submission whenever required.

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, the original art work and the raw files for digital works must be kept ready for submission whenever required.

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.

Short Film: 

Grab your phone or camera and get shooting. No need to use any of the listed Catchphrases.  The movie you send in could be anywhere from 30 seconds to about 12 minutes in length, as long as it says what you want it to. You can use any style of movie making, including animation, stop motion etc.. Make sure you give due credits to your team members. Upload the movie in Youtube And send the link to us.

 

 Accompany your entry with a short (within 50 words) write up about it.

The write up is to contain the following:

  • What prompted you to do it 
  •  For Cartoon & Caricature and Poster, mention technical details of your Artwork, e.g., medium (oil, acrylic, digital, mixed etc.),  size (not applicable for digital work). For Short Film, mention the device used.  

 

 

 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 of your choice in each of the three different Art categories. More than two entries for an art category would stand disqualified.
  • Don’t repeat entries if you had earlier sent them to ChotaMota; the entries will then be disqualified.
  • Send only those creations completed within last six months (relaxable for Short films).
  • Make sure what you submit is a composition of your own creation, and speaks truly to you.
  • You may borrow ideas from others’ creations 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?

  •  For Cartoon & Caricature  and Poster 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 Short Film, upload the video to youtube  and send us the link.
  • 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.

Mobile and WhatsApp:        (+91) 98365 6890

 

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