The NGO “Green Cross Belarus” in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus supported by the International Art Public Organization (IAPO) “Union of Artists-Teachers” announces the 14th International Contest of Art and Graphics “In My Homeland”:

CONTEST TOPICS:
“In My Homeland” is a traditional free topic of the Contest.
The most interesting works that you send to the contest are usually those that are related to your personal impressions, experiences, events. Try to take a closer look at the world around you and reflect in the works that you did not leave indifferent. It may be something unusual or, conversely, all familiar. After all, re-discovering things that are familiar to us is also the task of the artist. It is the work with such "discoveries" I would like to see in our contest " In My Homeland".

"Portrait" - a self-portrait, portraits of your friends, relatives, neighbors, famous countrymen, contemporaries who live near you. In the disclosure of an important role played by objects, pets, landscape or interior, selected by the background for the image.

Each topic is a separate category. The jury will estimate the work separately for each of them.

The topic of a work submitted to the Contest must be indicated when filling in the registration form.

CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST:
1/ The age of participants ranges FROM 5 UP TO AND INCLUDING 18 YEARS.

2/ The work has to be CREATIVE and INDIVIDUAL made DURING THE YEAR OF THE CONTEST.

3/ The work may be of ANY SIZE; do not put it in a frame nor passe partout. A REGISTRATION FORM is attached to the back side of each work. (You can download the registration form in .doc on the Contest’s website and the Green Cross Belarus Non-Governmental Organization. The registration form has to be filled in a print format). 

4/ Works submitted for the Contest are not reviewed and ARE NOT TO BE RETURNED to their authors. The Organizers retain the right to reproduce them in order to promote and develop the Contest, to use in methodical and charity activities without the author's consent and without an author’s fee.

ADMISSION OF WORKS STARTS ON OCTOBER 1 AND LASTS UNTIL DECEMBER 31 2018.

THE WORKS are to BE SUBMITTED TO THE FOLLOWING POSTAL ADDRESS:

Non-governmental Organization “Green Cross Belarus”
Contest “In My Homeland”
222201, Smolevichi, the Republic of Belarus

(Provided postal address is complete. The works are picked up directly from the post office by the organizers)

We ask all the participants to use the services of REGULAR or EMS post. DO NOT INDICATE the value (price) of the goods on parcels.

RESULTS OF THE CONTEST:
The jury will consider the works in February 2019, determine prize and diploma winners. Works of prize winners will be included into the final exhibition and will become available in the electronic gallery on the Contest’s website www.children-art.org.

The 14th INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ART AND GRAPHICS “IN MY HOMELAND” is to be opened in April 2019 in Minsk.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
(+375 17) 327 79 54, (+375 17) 55 55 240                                 info@children-art.org
(+375 29) 627 79 23, (+375 29) 667 57 80                                 www.children-art.org