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2019 Youth Creativity Competition
Semi-finalists will be published in the Fall 2019 issue of Groundwork and
the winner in each category will be featured in the Winter 2020 issue!
Each category will be divided into two age groups: 13 years and under, and 14 to 22 years. The submissions must be in some way related to horses, the horse business or the artist/author’s relationship with horses.
One entry per person per category; multiple entries within each category will not be accepted.
Submission forms can be found HERE or by e-mailing contesteci@gmail.com .
No submissions will be accepted without the completed form.
Category 1: Creative Writing
Submissions must be received between May 1, 2019 and June 15, 2019.
Poetry or prose, 500 words or less
Judged by Mark Munzert, 2019 National Champion Cowboy Poet
Category 2: Photography
Submissions must be received between June 15, 2019 and July 31, 2019.
Black and White or Color, Traditional Dark-Room or Digital accepted
Normal processing of original file is acceptable, including: cropping, minor adjustments to color, white balance, tone, lighting levels and curves, shadows and highlights, saturation, contrast, sharpness, moderate dodging and burning, removal of dust spots and reduction of image noise. Photographs that have been digitally or otherwise altered beyond standard optimization will be disqualified. That includes: stitched panoramics, images that have been manipulated by the addition, removal, or alteration (painting over, cloning, or blurring) of anything in the original subject and scene that were photographed, borders, signatures or watermarks.
Category 3: Original Artwork
Submissions must be received between August 1, 2019 and September 15, 2019.
All 2D media is acceptable including but not limited to oil, acrylic, charcoal, pencil, watercolor as well as digital.
Artwork must be original, done solely by entrant with no help.
Drawings and paintings must appear on blank paper or canvas, not ruled paper.
the winner in each category will be featured in the Winter 2020 issue!
Each category will be divided into two age groups: 13 years and under, and 14 to 22 years. The submissions must be in some way related to horses, the horse business or the artist/author’s relationship with horses.
One entry per person per category; multiple entries within each category will not be accepted.
Submission forms can be found HERE or by e-mailing contesteci@gmail.com .
No submissions will be accepted without the completed form.
Category 1: Creative Writing
Submissions must be received between May 1, 2019 and June 15, 2019.
Poetry or prose, 500 words or less
Judged by Mark Munzert, 2019 National Champion Cowboy Poet
Category 2: Photography
Submissions must be received between June 15, 2019 and July 31, 2019.
Black and White or Color, Traditional Dark-Room or Digital accepted
Normal processing of original file is acceptable, including: cropping, minor adjustments to color, white balance, tone, lighting levels and curves, shadows and highlights, saturation, contrast, sharpness, moderate dodging and burning, removal of dust spots and reduction of image noise. Photographs that have been digitally or otherwise altered beyond standard optimization will be disqualified. That includes: stitched panoramics, images that have been manipulated by the addition, removal, or alteration (painting over, cloning, or blurring) of anything in the original subject and scene that were photographed, borders, signatures or watermarks.
Category 3: Original Artwork
Submissions must be received between August 1, 2019 and September 15, 2019.
All 2D media is acceptable including but not limited to oil, acrylic, charcoal, pencil, watercolor as well as digital.
Artwork must be original, done solely by entrant with no help.
Drawings and paintings must appear on blank paper or canvas, not ruled paper.