The 2014/15 Prize "OVERCOMING BARRIERS. BEYOND DISABILITIES" - Rules of the prize
ELEANOR WORTHINGTON PRIZE Open to Schools, Institutes, and Academies of Art and Design at tertiary, B.A. level THEME: OVERCOMING BARRIERS. Beyond disability RULES OF THE PRIZE, 2014_2015 1.INTRODUCTION. The Prize began in 2009, in memory of Eleanor Worthington, a disabled Anglo- Italian young woman, who from 1998 to 2003 attended the Istituto d’Arte/Scuola del Libro in Urbino, where she was warmly welcome by teachers, administrative staff, and pupils, who made true friendships with her, overcoming communicative and behavioural barriers. Her family, friends, and school wanted to transform Eleanor’s personal story into a collective experience, for the purpose of raising reflection on the culture of disability especially among young people, expressing it through the language of visual communication, chosen because of its immediacy of expression. The Prize, now at its seventh year, was initially for Secondary schools in the Marche Region of Italy. This year a parallel Prize has been set up, reserved to Art Schools at the level of the first three years of Tertiary education. The Prize is organized in cooperation with the Corso di Perfezionamento, Scuola del Libro, Urbino, under the sponsorhip of the Regional Government of the Italian region of Marche, of the Pesaro-Urbino and Fermo Provincial Governments, of the City of Urbino, and of various private institutions and individuals. 2. THEME. The theme of the Prize is OVERCOMING BARRIERS. BEYOND DISABILITY”. The chosen theme draws attention to the difficulties which disabled people encounter, in communication, relationships, inclusion at work, and movement within and outside the house, but it also points to search for insights and suggestions geared at the social inclusion of disabled people and their families. Participants are asked to enter the competition with works of visual communication, with the relevant techniques and disciplines, such as painting, sculpture, illustration, animation, graphics, photography, design, and multimedia. 3. RULES OF PARTICIPATION. Entry to the prize is free. Students intending to take part in the Prize must declare their intention to do so by December 31, 2014, with an email to info@premioeleanor.it All entries should be submitted in digital form only, by Thursday March 5, 2015, uploading them in the folder premioeleanor through FTP, the credentials of which are: HOST: www.premioeleanor.it USERNAME: user@premioeleanor.it PASSWORD: FA1y1BoP
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All works submitted must have a title, which may coincide with the Prize title. They must also be accompanied by a short statement of their “concept” (max 600 characters, spaces included, for the purpose of appearing on the web site of the Prize). The judges will have access only to the digital form for all submitted works. Each submission must be at a high printing resolution (min. 300DP), for the purpose of possible appearance in the exhibition. Films and animations must last between 1 and 15 minutes, in quick time, compression H264. Two versions are needed for all works submitted, one with the name of the entrant(s) (for the exhibition and for the web site), and an anonymous one, to be submitted to the judges. 4. EVALUATION. Evaluation of the works will be carried out by a panel of five judges, on the basis of four criteria: Relevance to the theme Communicative effectiveness Originality Overall impression. The submitted works are evaluated anonymously. 6. PRIZE and EXHIBITION. The winner of the prize will be announced in Urbino, by March 31, 2015. The prize is of € 600 (gross of tax). For entrants as a group, the prize will be split among the members of the group. Selected works submitted to the competition will be displayed in a public exhibition devoted to the Prize, to be held early in June in York, U.K., at the New School House Gallery, www.schoolhousegallery.co.uk/ 7. WEB SITE. This document, the works submitted in previous years to the Secondary School Prize, and documentation on past Prize events can be found on the Prize’s web site (in Italian and in English): 8. CONSENT. Each candidate authorizes the Associazione Premio Eleanor Worthington, and also its legal representative, to deal with the received personal data according to Italian law 675/96 (Legge sulla Privacy) and later alterations D. Lgs. 196/2003 (Codice Privacy), for the purpose, among others, of inserting the data in data banks run by the Associazione. Each participant grants the Associazione Premio Eleanor Worthington free rights to reproduce the works and the concepts submitted to the Prize, for the sole purpose of possible inclusion in the web site of the Prize, and of other forms of communication , promotion and activities of the Associazione. Those who do not want their work to appear on the web site of the Prize must declare it in writing when they enroll in the Prize. The decision of the organizers of the prize on whatever is not specified in this document is final. For the Associazione Premio Eleanor Worthington Giuliana Parodi Urbino, Sept. 21, 2014 Associazione Premio Eleanor Worthington Registered Office: Via Pian del Monte 2 61029 URBINO, Italy | |
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