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Sustainability — Art/Invention Contest

Date:	3/31/08 - 10/31/08
Time:	June 20 is the deadline for submissions
Place:	Visit our website for complete details.

Artists and inventors throughout the Pioneer Valley (Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden counties) are invited to submit their ideas and concepts for a project that will result in a representation of sustainability.

Ideas can be described visually (through sketches, models, sculpture, video etc.) and verbally. This first stage of the contest involves only concepts; not finished artwork or productions.

There is a $1,000 prize for winning concept submission and significant exposure and recognition for all finalists. Contest winner must agree to execute his/her winning idea and produce the final work with a $5,000 budget by September 30, 2008.

Friday, June 20 - All submissions must be received by 5 p.m.

June 20 – June 24 Finalists selected.

June 25 - Finalists will be invited to present work publicly at an evening Sustainability Salon at the Academy of Music, Northampton. At the public presentation, original works will be displayed (as possible) and finalists will have the opportunity to make a public statement about their submission. Judges will comment, and the public will also have an opportunity to comment.

One to two weeks after Judges will publicly announce contest winner.

September 30, 2008 - Final work of contest winner must be complete.

October 2008- Contest winner’s final creation will be publicly unveiled at a Sustainability Event at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.




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