Art Calendar Announces its 2010 Self-Portrait Cover Contest

Art Calendar, the business magazine for visual artists, announces its 2010 Self-Portrait Cover Contest. The contest, which runs today through December 11, 2009 at 11:59 p.m. EST, is free to enter, features $750 in gift certificates provided by the contest sponsor, Blick Art Materials, and gives one talented artist the opportunity to have their artwork featured on the cover of the March 2010 issue of Art Calendar.

The first place winner will receive a $500 gift certificate to Blick Art Materials, have their artwork featured on the cover of the March 2010 issue of Art Calendar, and will be interviewed by one of the Art Calendar editors for a one-page profile.

The second place winner will receive a $150 gift certificate to Blick Art Materials and the third place winner will receive a $100 gift certificate to Blick Art Materials. Both the second and third place finalists will have a half-page profile with an image of their work and a short biography about them inside the March 2010 issue of Art Calendar.

The contest will be juried by a panel comprised of Art Calendar staff and contributing writers and the winners will be notified by December 15, 2009.

Only electronic submissions made through www.ArtCalendar.com/CoverContest2010will be accepted. No photographs, slides or CDs sent by mail to Art Calendar will be eligible. There is a limit of one entry per person.

Further contest rules and details can be found at www.ArtCalendar.com/CoverContest2010

About Art Calendar

The foremost business publication for visual artists, Art Calendar assist artists in reaching their career ambitions by serving as the industry’s comprehensive resource for income and exhibition opportunities. Art Calendar is published monthly (12 issues per year) with combined July/August and December/January issues. Each issue of the magazine reaches more than 15,000 artists worldwide. Art Calendar and its Web site, ArtCalendar.com, and social networking Web sites, ArtScuttlebutt.com and CrafterCircle.com, are a part of Turnstile Publishing Company, one of the nation’s leading media brands specializing in high-end publications for active and affluent audiences. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Orlando, Fla., Turnstile Publishing Company is also the parent corporation of Community Media Holdings and the TurfNet Media Network, as well as such publications as Golfweek, The Seminole Voice and The Winter Park/Maitland Observer, as well as the Web sites TurfNet.com, SeminoleVoice.com, WPMObserver.com, GolfweekHomes.com and Golfweek.com, which features golf’s first online television network, GolfweekTV.

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