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Third Annual Holiday Card Contest
A Call to Artists
Use your creativity to help celebrate Cincinnati history!
M. Hopple & Co., Cincinnati’s premier fine paper goods retailer, is
proud to announce our third annual Holiday Card Contest. This year’s
contest will feature Cincinnati neighborhoods, landmarks and special
places. Art depicting our distinctive bridges, our beautiful local
parks, the vibrant city center and Fountain Square area, historic
Findlay Market, our skyline or riverfront views, or unique
neighborhoods like Mt. Adams and Price Hill are welcome. Artists are
encouraged to use their imaginations to create a piece that
showcases our city!
A distinguished panel of judges will select three submissions plus
one student submission, and these four designs will be printed as
part of the 2008 CityArt Holiday Card Collection. The collection
will be sold at M. Hopple & Co. Kenwood, with a portion of the
proceeds going to ArtWorks, a nonprofit arts organization that
offers job training, creative services, and public art to the
Greater Cincinnati community. This year's judges include
award-winning cartoonist Jim Borgman, renowned artist Brett Harper
of Harper Studios, founded by Charley and Edie Harper, and Doug
Bolton, Publisher of the Cincinnati Business Courier.
Winning art from this competition has been featured on a local
morning news show, the Fountain Square Jumbotron, and in numerous
newspapers and other media outlets in our region. In 2007, over
10,000 CityArt Holiday Cards were sold. |
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Contest Guidelines |
- Art should feature a Cincinnati scene during the holiday season.
- Media types can include photo, painting, drawing and collage.
- Original art should be no larger than 11” x 17.” The final cards
will be 5” x 7” and printed in full color or black and white, as
appropriate.
- Artists are asked to remove or obscure any features or objects
that might be copyrighted, trademarked or otherwise are not part of
the public domain, i.e. company logos, unless permission is granted in
writing by the owner of the feature or object.
- Submissions must be mailed or delivered to:
M. Hopple & Co.
Attention: Mary Hopple
7737 Kenwood Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45236
- Artists must agree not to compete with the Holiday Card Collection
by reproducing their art in a similar fashion through January 2010.
- Contest organizers have the right to adjust contest guidelines as
needed.
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Timeline |
| August 29, 2008 |
All submissions due to M. Hopple & Co. by 8:00
p.m. |
| September 2, 2008 |
Art is judged and winners are selected |
| September 7, 2008 |
Winners of CityArt Holiday Card Contest are
announced |
| September - December 2008 |
Holiday Card Collection available for sale at M.
Hopple & Co. |
| January 16, 2009 |
Art can be picked up by artist from M. Hopple &
Co. Kenwood store, during normal business hours. Sorry, art will
not be returned to artists by mail. |
| February 6, 2009 |
Art must be claimed by artists. Unclaimed art will
no longer be available after this date and will become the
property of M. Hopple & Co. |
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Prizes |
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Artists selected as winners will each receive a
prize package worth $150.00. Included will be a special set of 50
of his/her Holiday Card, plus gift certificates to Deck the Walls
Custom Framing, Dewey’s Pizza and Plaza Artist Materials (formerly
Wilson Art Stores).
The student artist selected as our ‘student winner’ will receive
$75.00 cash plus a set of 25 of his/her Holiday Card. |
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Previous Year’s Winners |
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Shopping for a
Holiday Feast |
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Christmas in
Full Bloom |
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Fountain
Abstractions |
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Snowfall on
Piatt Park |
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Ice Skating on
Mirror Lake |
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Friends and the
Fountain |
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for printable entry form required for all artwork submissions. |
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