BIC Art Master Competition: Ubuntu Together

 Deadline Date: July 18, 2024

 Donor Name: BIC

 Grant Size: $1000 to $10,000

BIC brings to you the “Art Master” Ball Pen art contest that encourages the talents across Africa and Middle East to showcase their creativity and compete with fellow artists.

Competition Theme

• Ubuntu Together: “Ubuntu Together” is an African philosophy that stresses the interdependence and shared humanity. It calls on artists to illustrate the strength found in community bonds and collective harmony.

Prize Information

• BIC Art Master of Africa receives 2,000 USD cash prize, personalized virtual gallery developed by BIC for the winner (to manage, upload the winning artwork for 1 years) and possibility of getting the artwork featured in La BIC collection of Art by purchasing the artwork.
• Second Place Prize Winner : receives 1,000 USD cash prize only.
• Third Place Prize Winner : receives 500 USD cash prize only.
• National Winner of Country : receives 500 USD cash prize only.
• Lucky Voter winner receives prize valuing 250 USD

Winning Criteria

• BIC Art Master of Africa Prize Winner: is the First-place winner of the Competition who will be picked by the Judging Panel based on (1) originality, (2) creativity, and (3) eloquence. A single winner will be selected.
• Second Place Prize Winner: is the second-place winner of the Competition who will be picked by the Judging Panel based on (1) originality, (2) creativity, and (3) eloquence. A single winner will be selected.
• Third Place Prize Winner: is the third-place winner of the Competition who will be picked by the Judging Panel based on (1) originality, (2) creativity, and (3) eloquence. A single winner will be selected.
  • National Winner of Country :is the local winner of the Competition in any one of the participating countries, who will be picked by the Judging Panel based on (1) originality, (2) creativity, and (3) eloquence as Art Master of the country. A single winner will be selected from the following countries: Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and Ivory Coast.
• Lucky Voter Prize Winner: is a single winner that will be picked randomly from all Facebook users who will share any of the top 10 artworks on their profiles. during after the competition ends using their unique IDs that will be put into a randomizer application to pick a single winner.
• The winners will be requested to submit the original artwork to the Promoter to verify originality and the ownership or the Promoter will arrange for the artwork to be collected from the finalists within 15 working days.

Eligible Countries

• Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, DR Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Eligibility Criteria

• Entry is open to all Africa and Middle East residents aged 13 years or older. Entrants under 18 years of age must have the consent of a parent/guardian to enter. Further, the parent/guardian of the entrant must read and consent to the Terms. Parents/guardians may be required by the Promoter to enter into a further agreement as evidence of consent to the minor participating in this this competition. All warranties and agreements provided in the Terms by an Entrant are also deemed to be provided by the parent or legal guardian of such an Entrant if the Entrant is a minor
• If a winner of a prize is under the age of 18 years, the Promoter may, at its discretion, award the prize to the winner’s parent or guardian.

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