This Open Call will select five grand prize winners and four honorable mentions within the following categories:

• Fibers
• Glass
• Jewelry
• Metalwork
• Pottery
• Textiles
• Woodworking

• Applicants must be 18 years or older.
• Submissions must be created by the applicant.
• Submissions can have been created at any time in your creative career.
• We are looking for makers that excel at their medium.
• Each image should only exhibit one work.
• Additional views of one 3D work must use multiple image function. See guidelines for more info.
• Image quality is a factor in the judging process.
• Not adhering to these rules will result in disqualification.

IMPORTANT: YOU RETAIN THE COPYRIGHT in your submitted works and ONLY provide us with the right to show your work on Artrepreneur and promote your work on social media. For more details, see the Policies Section in our Help Center.

Each winner will receive:

• $300 via PayPal.

Each Winner and Honorable Mentions will receive:

• Promotion through our social media channels.
• An “Open Call Winner” Badge on the winning artwork
• A listing on our Open Call Winners page

• Winners and Honorable Mentions will be notified the week of August 24, 2020.
• Works will be posted on selected social media platforms in August 2020.
• Prizes will be distributed by September 2020.

This open call is curated by Matt Rota and Elizabeth Winnel.

Matt Rota has spent the past 15 years working with clients in print and online including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Penguin Books, The LA Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, Smithsonian, Variety, Buzzfeed, and many others. His illustrations focus primarily on global politics, criminal justice, social inequality, immigration, and poverty. Over the past ten years, he has taught illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and The School of Visual Arts. Matt has written two books on drawing, Pencil Arts Workshop, and The Art of Ballpoint. Matt also has an extensive fine arts career, exhibiting his drawings in galleries internationally and serving on the board of directors at the New York Artists Equity Association.

Elizabeth Winnel instigates conversations about the use of body and ‘selfie’ imagery within cultural spaces and social media. Decontextualized imagery serves as a stand-in for larger meaning. Her approach invites viewer engagement but leaves room for the insertion of individualized perspective. Her works are not about specific stories or people, rather they function as prompts for discourse about figuration, body language, communication and culture.