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The 41st annual Detroit Jazz Festival is giving a local artist a chance to design the festival’s poster for its upcoming event.
In partnership with the City of Detroit’s Office of Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship, the Detroit Jazz Festival foundation is holding a contest this year for designing the festival’s main poster, which will result a $10,000 commission.
But artists need to hurry: The entry deadline is Tuesday.
According to the event’s website, to be eligible to apply for the contest, artists must:
- Live and work in Detroit
- Have experience
- This piece will not be their first work
- Be able to meet deadlines
The requirements for the art, the foundation said, include:
- Original work of art
- Appropriately represent the festival and the jazz art form
- Speak to a diverse audience
- Don’t include any recognizable faces
- Don’t include profane images or language
- Don’t include political content
- Artists are able to use paint, pastel, ink photography, mixed media, etc.
The commission will choose and interview artists starting on Thursday and announce the winner on July 20. On Aug. 5, the final piece will be unveiled at a news conference, the festival’s website noted.
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The festival’s foundation said the poster needs to show Detroit’s “unique vibe and may reference the defining events of the year; COVID-19 pandemic, the quest for justice led through the Black Lives Matter movement, events, and concerts being moved to digital platforms, including the Jazz Festival.”
This year’s festival is scheduled for Sept. 4-7 and will take place virtually via live stream.
More information on the festival and the contest can be found here.
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