MCAC One-Hour Art Challenge!

Sat Sep 21 2024 at 10:00 am UTC-05:00

601 N East St, Bloomington, IL, United States, Illinois 61701 | Bloomington

McLean County Arts Center
Publisher/HostMcLean County Arts Center
MCAC One-Hour Art Challenge!
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One hour. 12 Artists. Crowd-chosen winners!
https://mcac.wildapricot.org/MCAC-Hour
FREE DONUTS AND COFFEE!
Prizes!

RULES:
Bring your own supplies. 16 x 20 stretched canvases will be provided ( courtesy of our sponsor Blick art materials). You are welcome to bring in your own paper for watercolor or pastel work. All substrates must be entirely free of any marks, sketches, stains, etc. You are welcome to pre-gesso a canvas as long as it remains pure white with no other marks.
any methods are allowed besides spraying, pouring, flinging, or other potentially damaging methods of using materials that might dirty the gallery space, floors, or art being displayed on the walls or cause too many aromatic fumes to saturate the space. (collage, oils, acrylics, pastels, charcoal, pencils, pens, markers, inks, watercolors, are all fine!). If you use aromatic fluids to clean or thin your paint please keep it in a sealable container, with a lid over the fluids, when not in immediate use to reduce fumes.
Participating artists' work must remain in the room for the entirety of the hour.
All artists are given one full hour to complete their artwork and must drop all brushes, pencils, and/or pastels when prompted to.
Artists are given the option to auction their finished pieces directly after the competition (MCAC earns 30% of all sales to go towards future events) You do not have to auction your work.
The audience will then vote for their three favorite artists (one vote per competitor- spread the love)
Prizes are awarded to the top 3 artists with the most votes! Ties are broken by curator and Director votes. In the event that first or second place ties the tie breaking vote will establish the winner and the remaining placements will all shift down (eg. Two people tie for 1st place: one will be awarded 1st and the second becomes 2nd place. The artist that was previously 2nd place moves down to 3rd.)

Votes will be sold as a fundraiser; 3 votes for $5, 8 votes for $10.
(votes are numbered and must be used one per unique contestant. Duplicate votes per contestant will be counted as one total vote. Eg. when you purchase tickets to vote the total number of tickets purchased will all be marked with the same number, if that number appears multiple times within the same artists bowl all multiples will be ignored and one vote will be alotted to that artist. Please vote for a different artist with each vote!)
Earnings go towards prizes, and funding future art challenges.
Your generosity is appreciated!

CURRENT CHALLENGE: Sept 21st 2024, PROMPT: Open subject, open medium, 16x20 substrate
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