Call For Entries: Creative Graduate Prize 2009

-sent to me by my Friend Melissa Sterry of Societas. Submit!

Creative Graduate Prize 2009 Launches. Founded in 2005 by web platform Medium Magazine and innovation agency and think tank Societás – the Creative Graduate Prize kick-starts the careers of talented visual arts graduates, bringing their work to the attention of leaders in the creative industries. Supported by media partners jotta.com – digital community for the arts founded in partnership with Central Saint Martins and The University of the Arts, London, Creativepool – the UK’s creative recruitment and directory resource and Eye Petrol – the user-generated magazine of creative talent, the Creative Graduate Prize is a platform to recognise the best emerging illustrators, photographers, painters, animators, short filmmakers and installation artists worldwide. The Creative Graduate Prize annually attracts entries from around the world; past winners have come from as far a field as a remote province in rural China, Washington DC and Cardiff.

2009 Creative Graduate Prize entrants are invited to submit original works exploring the theme of ‘Change’. Each entrant may submit a maximum of two entries across a maximum of two award entry categories. Each entrant must submit a short description of their entry, provide the date of completion of the entry and provide details of the university or art college they attended when taking their first degree, along with their year of graduation, country of residence and country of birth.

The entry deadline is Friday 30th October 2009 and winners will be announced in November. The awards jury is made up of innovators from the international creative industries including contemporary artists Stuart Semple and Tessa Farmer, Penny Martin of the London College of Fashion, photographer Ellis Scott, Design Laboratory/Jotta.com Director Yann Mathias, sculptor Lone Sigurdsson known for her collaborations with amongst others Hussain Chalayan, Award-winning creative director Justin Champney, digital artist Eileen Botsford, Fake Magazine editors Lola Fernandez and Rafa Rodriguez, Error ezine Editor Nacho Jiménez Bas, Duane Melius MD of Sense Media, Creativepool MD Michael Tomes and awards founders Laurie Cansfield publisher of Medium Magazine and Melissa Sterry founder and CEO of Societás.

Editor’s Notes: ONLINE MEDIA PACK – http://www.mediummagazine.net/cgp2009.html

Creative Graduate Prize Categories:

* Best Static Art (all genres of static 2D art including photography, illustration, painting, graffiti)

* Best Moving Art (animation and short film)

* Best Installation Art (all genres of static and moving 3D art that engage their environment)

Entry Details: Entries should be sent to submissions@mediummagazine.net marked ‘CGP 2009’.

Please note that any entries that do no embrace the Creative Graduate Prize 2009’s theme of ‘CHANGE’ will automatically be disqualified.

Past Creative Graduate Prize winners and runner-ups include amongst others: Canadian photographer Edith Maybin – Static Art Prize 2008 Filmmaker Carla Pott of Mozambique – Moving Art Prize 2008 French Artist Matthieu Gadoin – Installation Art Prize 2008 Irish Artist Emmet Kierans – 1st Runner-Up 2008 English artist Emma Perry – 2nd Runner-Up 2008 New York photographer Carrie Schechter – Static Art Prize 2007 Cardiff-based Filmmaker Gareth Lloyd – Moving Art Prize 2007 Artist Cai Jia Eng of Singapore – 1st Runner-Up 2007 Italian photographer Elena Arzani – 2nd Runner-Up 2007 Illustrator Li Li of China – Static Art Prize 2006 Photographer Lyza R. Perrenoud of Washington – 1st Runner-Up 2006 Photographer Judith Erwes of Germany – 2nd Runner-Up 2006 British Photographer Jessica Zetterstrom – Winner 2005

Creative Graduate Prize Prizes:

* A Key-2 Luxury (see www.key2luxury.com) worth £5000 for the overall competition winner – the finalist with the highest overall vote from the jury members.

* An editorial in Mediummagazine.net

* Coverage in the magazine of jotta.com

* The opportunity to have your work seen by the judges, their agencies and the creative orgs attached to the Creative Graduate Prize, which include creative platform jotta.com and Creativepool.co.uk

Creative Graduate Prize Organisers:

Multi award-winning sustainable innovation think tank, incubator and agency Societás was founded in 2004 as a creative catalyst to launch and promote visionary creative concepts and groundbreaking first-to-market ventures globally. Pioneering and experimental in approach Societás bring together expertise of the visual and audio arts, cutting-edge design, state-of-the-art communications, next-generation strategy, sustainable solutions, commercial acumen and a global network spanning the full spectrum of the creative industries. Societás brings outstanding creative and commercial talent to a wide range of projects. Trend creation gurus Societás work with some of the most influential companies in the fields of communications, design, music, film, fashion, media, publishing and the arts. Societás are engaged in several sustainable design and eco innovation projects, working with pioneering concepts in the environmental arena and leading international design, engineering and academic institutions. Societás have jointly founded and run two annual international visual arts awards that celebrate the best emerging creative talent globally; the Creative Graduate Prize launched in 2005 and the Iconique Societás Awards launched in 2007. http://www.societas.ltd.uk

Medium Magazine (MM) is an online platform where creative people from anywhere in the world can show off their work. The website is updated four times a year with new projects from emerging artists. It features work in any creative medium, which is presented in four sections: Stories, Pictures, Live and Music. The idea for MM came about when Laurie Cansfield (now the Editor / Creative Director of MM) left university and thought, “What next?” There are plenty of opportunities to exhibit work and meet potential employers whilst studying, but after graduation you’re on your own. So MM exists to help people have their work seen by the public and by creative industry leaders. MM began in April 2005 as a printed publication with an accompanying website and exhibition. Although the printed and live elements of the project enjoyed some success, it was the website that really took off. Now the project is entirely online and has regular contributors from all over the world. Now MM welcomes submissions from all levels of students as well as graduates and professionals and features work from both established and emerging artists. http://www.mediummagazine.net

Creative Graduate Media Partners: jotta.com – art, design and communication jotta.com is the new digital community for the arts founded in partnership with Central Saint Martins and The University of the Arts, London. At its most basic, jotta offers a huge online creative gallery. Explore artwork by discipline, format, location, most viewed or artist background. Save and organise your favourite work using our fun Lightbox feature. Stay up to date with the community and beyond in the Magazine.

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