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Announcing the 6th Annual Botanicality Spring Botanical Art Show!

The 6th annual Botanicality Tumblr Spring Botanical Art Show is the opportunity to expose amateur and professional artists working in contemporary visual arts to a wider digital audience.   This exhibition is a showcase meant to highlight the spring botanical experience in 2-D mediums.  Submitted art should relate to the theme of the spring botanical experience.

Click to see previously submitted artwork:

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ELIGIBILITY
All tumblr users are eligible to submit up to (2) original works of art in each of five categories: (1) painting, (2) drawing/sketching, (3) digital painting, drawing, or sketching, (4) photography, and (5) traditional or digital mixed media.

This year, artists will submit their artwork for competition in three following divisions: (1) Seedling: blog size of 0-500 followers, (2) Fruit: blog size of 501-2000 followers, and (3) Harvest: blog size of 2001+ followers.

JURY
The judging of each category will be based upon likes and reblogs.  Each active tumblr user may vote for their favorite art pieces by clicking like or reblog on the original art post at http://botanicality.tumblr.com. While tumblr users may like or reblog multiple entries, duplicate votes will be eliminated.  The entries receiving the most combined likes and reblogs will win first prize in their division and compete for Best of Show.

Best of Show winners for each category will be judged by a jury of science, art, and plant professionals that will be announced after all art has been submitted.

AWARDS
Your contest host @cactguy with a number of tumblr partners, has a cool variety of botanical swag for the winners including, but not limited to, vintage botanical prints, plant cuttings and offsets, seed, and gardening gear.  Be on the lookout for more prize announcements!

REQUIREMENTS
Submissions must be made to botanicality13@gmail.com by 11:59.59 PM CST on May 5, 2018.

Submission emails must include the artist’s tumblr link, artist’s name (which will not be posted on the blog), category, division (see Eligibility above) and name of art piece.

Submissions must be in .jpg format.

Filename instructions: Blog name_entry#.jpg (i.e. cactguy_1.jpg)

The contest creators retain the right to curate the submitted artwork and/or refuse posting of works considered unsuitable for presentation.

TERMS OF AGREEMENT
By submitting artwork for consideration, the Artist acknowledges and accepts the following stated terms:

The Artist attests that the artwork submitted is copyright free and of their own creation.

The Artist retains ownership of submitted art, but Botanicality and show hosts have rights to share the artwork via their personal tumblr blog for current and future show promotion.

The Artist agrees to hold the art show hosts harmless and waive all claims or causes of action against them relating to the exhibition of the Artist’s artwork.

TIMELINE
April 6 – May 5 – All entries must be received by May 5, 2018 at 11:59.59 PM CST. Late entries will not be accepted.

May 7 – Accepted works of art will be posted to http://botanicality.tumblr.com.

May 7-25 – Accepted works of art will be posted by show co-hosts for voting via likes and reblogs by registered tumblr users.  Any votes received after 11:59.59 PM CST on May 25, 2018 will not be accepted.

May 25 – Category division winners will be announced.

May 25-31 – Jury will be announced and Best of Show voting takes place.

June 1 – Best of Show winners will be announced for each category and prizes awarded.

Calling all artists – submissions still open through midnight on May 5.

AND *NEW* in 2018: Winners will receive limited edition prints by @to-see-clearly and @notyourdaddy.

3 more days remain to submit your art! We always enjoy that final flood of spring, but anytime 😁