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Calling all artists

Evergreen Fine Art Gallery

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A Competition for the Design of the 2012 Evergreen Angel™ to benefit Mt. Evans Hospice, Evergreen, Colorado Evergreen Fine Art Gallery, located in beautiful Evergreen, Colorado, is proud to present our first annual competition to design our beloved Evergreen Angel™.  Evergreen Fine Art is in its 20th year of designing the Hospice Angel.  This year we are doing something exciting and opening it up as a contest for artists. 

 The Evergreen Angel™ is a cherished collectable known throughout the country.  It is purchased for everything from births, celebrations, graduations; for mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, those who need hope and comfort; cancer survivors; as a memory keep-sake for a loved one.  This little angel has come to symbolize strength, hope and celebration.  It has touched so many universally and has benefited Hospice for over 20 years.  This year we would like to give artists the opportunity to design the angel.  After being selected, the design will be transferred into a mould and cast as a piece of fine sterling silver (or by special order, gold) to become a cherished collectable.  All work is done in the United States.

Submission Guidelines:

There is a non-refundable entry fee of $25.00 for each submission.

All submissions must be legible drawings, showing as many views of the image as possible.

All submissions must be provided as:

1) jpegs on CD (72ppl, 10 x 12 image size)

OR

2) artists may submit images via email (limit image to 620 pixels on the longest side) to Evergreen Fine Art at efa@evergreenfineart.com, attention Evergreen Angel Competition

OR

3) mail your submission to Evergreen Fine Art, Attention:  Evergreen Angel Competition, 3042 Evergreen Parkway, Evergreen, CO  80439.

The gallery cannot accept submissions in person, nor inquiries about the status of entries.

The design should allow for a sterling silver angel as well as a sterling silver limited edition angel with a gemstone.  Go to our website at Evergreenfineart.com and look under the Evergreen Angel tab to view previous angels.  The finished angel will be 1 inch tall and no more than ¾ inch wide at the base.  Four millimeter gems are used in the limited edition angels.

Eligibility:   Participants must be legal residents of the United States and cannot be employees or immediate family members of an employee of Southwest Art Magazine, FW Media, or Evergreen Fine Art Gallery. Participants must be 18 year of age or older at the time of submission.

Winner Awards
The winner will garner national attention.  Southwest Art Magazine is a Sponsor of this competition.  The winner of this competition will receive the following:

The winning design will be unveiled at an Angel Tea at the gallery on September  21, 2012
The winning Angel will be unveiled nationally on the Back Cover of the October 2012 Issue of Southwest Art Magazine

The artist will receive a Full Page award ad from Southwest Art Magazine (valued at 3,150.00)
The winner will receive a $500.00 cash award price

The winner will also receive six 2012 Evergreen Angels (three sterling silver and three sterling silver limited editions with gemstones.

PLEASE NOTE:  your entry will not be returned to you and is for jurying purposes only.  After the selection is completed all entries other than the winning entry will be destroyed. The rights to the winning image will belong to Evergreen Fine Art Gallery. 
In the event of similarity or duplication, earliest receipt shall prevail.

Jurors:  Editors, Southwest Art Magazine/ Owners, Evergreen Fine Art Gallery

ENTRY DEADLINE:  February 29, 2012

NOTIFICATION DATE FOR WINNER: April 1st 2012.

The winning Angel will be announced on the Evergreen Fine Art Website: www.evergreenfineart.com on April 1, 2012.

Payment Options

  1) Download and print the Contest Application Form.