RSA MORTON AWARD FOR LENS BASED WORK 2009

DEADLINE - 28 MAY 2009

About the Award
The Morton Award is for artists working in lens-based media and is administered by the Royal Scottish Academy and funded by the Morton Charitable Trust. It consists of a monetary award of £4,300 to develop and produce a new work in a lens based medium around a theme selected by the Royal Scottish Academy, and an exhibition of the completed new work at the RSA Annual Exhibition in 2009.

The Royal Scottish Academy is delighted to have secured a grant from the Morton Charitable Trust for new commissions by artists who were born in or are currently living and working in Scotland. The Morton Award will support artists in developing new works in photography or film loosely based on a theme concerning cultural, socio-economic, environmental or political developments in Scotland. Each year, the works by the Morton Award winner will be showcased at the RSA Annual Exhibition.

A short list of artists will be invited to present their project to the Panel of Adjudicators at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. Adjudicators for this year are Arthur Watson RSA, Calum Colvin RSA, Marion Smith RSA and Colin R Greenslade, Programme Director, RSA

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Aesthetica : The Annual Creative Works Competition

Three winners £500 each
With three categories, Artwork, Poetry and Fiction, the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition is looking to discover the best upcoming artists and writers. Winners of each category will each be awarded £500 and all winners and finalists will be published in the Aesthetica Annual, sold through Borders stores nationwide.

Deadline for submissions is 31 August 2009. All winners will be notified by 31 October 2009 and the Aesthetica Annual will be published 1 December 2009.

2008's Aesthetica Annual is available from Borders stores nationwide and directly from our shop, and showcases the best creative works from 2008. Why not check it out to see the great entries to Aesthetica's inaugural competition?
What are you waiting for? Send us your creative works today!

SAS Announces National Art Competition

Scottsdale Artists' School is announcing a unique call to artists for Spark! Igniting the Power of Art to celebrate environmentally friendly energy resources, a juried representational art competition. Visual artists have the power to create a broad impact on the global appeal to conserve energy, focus on renewable resources, and the urgency of restoring a clean environment.
The School invites artists to submit work based on the theme: Igniting the Power of Art to celebrate environmentally friendly energy resources.The competition is open to all artists, ages 18 and older. Entries must be received no later than March 20, 2009 and a $5,000 cash prize will be awarded to the winner.
The fee for the first entry is $35 and each additional entry is $25. The School will present the award at the Gala event, April 18, 2009, where the work will be on display. Artists must submit entries through the Website, www.callforentry.org.
Artists should go to the site and search for the call by the school name, Scottsdale Artists' School.
All images and information will be collected on the Website and juried by the school. The juried art competition kicks off events for the School’s Annual Fundraiser Gala, Spark – Igniting the Power of Art, April 18, 2009.
Don't miss out... make sure your artwork is entered by Friday, March 20, 2009.