ChotaMota Art Program – 31 (AP-31) will remain open for 16 days – from 07 June to 22 June 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 both 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 Painting :
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-31 includes two Art categories :-
Opens on: Saturday 07 June, 2025
Closes on: Sunday 22 June, 2025
Results on: Sunday 03 August, 2025
CATCHPHRASES for Painting only( No CATCHPHRASE for Graphic Story)
| English | বাংলা |
| Where have all the flowers gone | ফুলগুলি সব কোথায় গেলো? |
| Imagine there is no country … | সীমানা ছাড়িয়ে যাও না হারিয়ে |
| Blade of sunlight | রোদের ছুরি |
| Spinning around “I” | আপনারে শুধু ঘেরিয়া ঘেরিয়া, ঘুরে মরি পলে পলে |
You are free to choose any of the listed Catchphrases for Painting only. 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 Painting 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 Graphic Story. 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
Painting:
Pick the Catchphrase of your own choice or use your own theme to add color to a blank slate…..
Send us a jpeg version of your creation! Do not send the original artwork now. But it must be kept ready for submission when required .
Graphic Story(comic strip or illustrated story)
There is no Catchphrase for Graphic Story.
If you want to tell your story with illustration, let it be in not more than 10 pages of text and visuals.
Or if you wish to narrate your story in Comics, let it be in not more than 10 frames.
You need not send the original artwork now. Only keep a hard copy ready for sending to us when required
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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 two art categories
- .Send us a maximum of 2 entries you want in one or both 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 Painting and Graphic Story, 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 Graphic Story, you must ensure that artwork you are sending is perfectly legible, otherwise it will be discarded.
- For Graphic Story, if the artwork consists of several frames/pages , don’t forget to mark them serially(1,2,3,4 etc) and submit one at a time.
- 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 68902
