The Art Tales contest for writers inspired by art deadline nears: April 4

Dear past Art Tales participant,

Just a reminder that the deadline nears for the contest. When we talk and write about the experience of art — and how it frees our mind — we provide that art both oxygen and speech. Artworks live through our spoken and written conversations about them. Won’t you help the artworks selected for Ventura’s 150th anniversary “live” by entering your poem or short narrative in the contest? Entering is easy and by email. You may view the artworks at the library or online. And there are cash and other prizes in three categories. Hope you hear from you soon!

The City of Ventura is pleased to sponsor the eighth annual creative writing contest inspired by art, in partnership with E.P. Foster Library, 651 E Main St in Ventura. Selections from the Public and Municipal Art Collections at Ventura City Hall are rotated annually to a special second floor exhibit space near the library’s rear (children’s) entrance in an effort to make them more accessible to the community.

Visit E. P. Foster Library or the links below and choose the artwork that inspires you to create and enter your own poem or short story, 500 words or less by April 4, 2016.

● Free and open to all writers worldwide

● Prizes in 3 age categories

● To receive future contest notices  click the link to check the “Art Tales News” box under your profile

Artworks & Theme

“Our Local Story” is the Art Tales theme for 2016, celebrating Ventura’s 150th birthday in April, through four artists whose works in the Municipal and Public Art Collections tell our city’s unique story by depicting its classic neighborhoods, citrus orchards, proud history and hip downtown.”

– Tobie Roach, Art Tales Curator

 

When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city?

Do you huddle close together because you love each other?”

What will you answer? … “This is a community”?

–from Choruses from The Rock – T.S. Eliot

Click the links below to view and download featured art, contest info and the required release form:

1) Ortega Adobe, by Marguerite Hardeman, c. 1960s, oil on canvas, 31″ x 37″

2) Catalina Street V, by Katherine McGuire, 2002, watercolor on paper, 22″ x 28″

3) Oranges Against Shadows, by Meredith Brooks Abbott, 1999, oil on canvas, 21″ x 25″

4) Thrift, by Paula Odor, 1999, watercolor, 34″ x 28″

5) 4 in 1 all contest artworks in one PDF document, each printable on 8.5″ x 11″ sheets

6) Teacher and writer lesson plan with entry rules, featured artist bios &  more lesson plan model poems 7) Explore past anthologies (find links at the bottom of the website) for more prose and poetry examples

8) Copy, fill, save and send the REQUIRED RELEASE FORM in English or Spanish

TEACHERS: please contact Art Tales curator Tobie Roach at 805.658-4759 or [email protected] to request printed copies of materials for your classes and for further contest information.

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