Art, Culture, Porsche, Benz, and You
As disconnected as all of these words seem to be, you have a chance at winning an art residency in beautiful Stuttgart, Germany–the headquarters of Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and site to the international art residency Akademie Schloss Solitude.

This contest is open to all international artists and designers.

Individuals who have graduated from a university, college, graphic design school, design center or other recognized institution of learning are eligible. Students are not eligible for this residency.

The Residency Details
Sixty winners will be selected by a jury for residencies in the years 2010-2013. The categories for entry, according to the official contest rules are:

* Architecture: architecture design, urban studies, landscape design
* Visual Arts: including performance art and curatorial practice
* Performing Arts:  stage design, directing, drama, play-writing, dance, acting, musical ….theater, performance
* Design: visual communication, fashion, costume, product or furniture design
* Literature: theory/criticism, essay, poetry, fiction, translation
* Music/Sound: sound installation, sound and music composition, sound and music performance
* Video/Film/New Media: including video installation

This is a wonderful opportunity for designers and graduates from graphic design colleges to expand and hone their artistic skills by going overseas to participate in this ongoing art residency program.

Residency winners will be provided with a six month to one year fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. The winners are responsible for their personal transportation to Stuttgart and back.
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Each fellowship recipient will be awarded a grant of €1,000 per month during their stay, free lodging, freight cost subsidy for the transportation of art/design materials to and from Stuttgart, partial health insurance benefits, and associated workshops and study groups.

Important Information
Click on the following links for information related to:

Akademie Schloss Solitude Residency Guidelines
Residency Winner Awards
Jury and Winner Selection Procedures
Who Is Eligible for this Contest
Staff Contact Information
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Other Details
The deadline for this residency fellowship contest is October 31, 2010. There are no entry fees for this competition. For questions about this event, make an international phone call to +49 (0) 711 99 6 19 0. Fax queries may be sent to +49 (0) 711 99 6 19 50.

It’s All About Image
If you are an amateur or professional in photography, the Sony World Photography Awards 2011 contest is an excellent opportunity to compete with an international field of photographers.

The winners receive worldwide recognition for their images in addition to cash awards in their respective contest categories.

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Awards
The winners of each contest category will receive free travel arrangements to the awards ceremony in London, cash awards, and Sony products.

Other Details
In order to enter this contest, you must register for a free account at the official contest site.
Other important information can be viewed at these links:

Frequently Asked Questions about the Contest
Complete Contest Rules
Entry Page for Professionals
Entry Page for Amateurs

There are no entry fees for this contest. Deadline for all submissions is January 5, 2011.

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Calling All Designers
The Seoul International Design for All Competition is a unique opportunity for designers from a broad range of design backgrounds to compete for cash prizes and awards.

Seoul, Korea has been designated World Design Capital 2010 and is celebrating this honor with a design fair and contest.

The Design for All competition’s objective is to provide an open forum for all designers, regardless of their specific fields of expertise, to share and present their creations.
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The Entry Categories
According to the official website, designers may submit their work in the following contest categories and their respective sub categories:

* Product for All
- Product
- System
- Fashion
- Craft

* Communication for All
- Graphic
- Advertisement
- Moving Image
- Animation

* Space for All
- Interior
- Environmental Design
- Architecture

Awards
Various cash prizes totaling $26,000 USD plus contest award certificates will be given to the winners of this competition. According to the contest sponsors, the awards are:

* Golden Haechi prize: one winner, US $10,000
* Silver Haechi prize: three winners, US $2,000 each
* Bronze Haechi prize: five winners, US $1,000 each
* Iron Haechi prize: max. ten winners, US $500 each

* Honorable mention: within two hundred people, certificates for each
* People’s choice awards: twenty winners, certificates for each

How to Enter
Perspective contest candidates must first register at the official website. Submissions are to be uploaded to the entry website with a valid free account.

The deadline for submissions is July 13, 2010. There are no entry fees for this contest.

Calling All Amateur Photographers
Sigma, a manufacturer of photography lenses and accessories and Photographer’s Forum are announcing an open call to all amateur photographers to enter its 30^th Annual Spring Photography Contest.

This contest is open to individuals worldwide. There is no age limit but the contest is strictly for amateurs only. If you are a professional photographer, you may not enter.

Contest Details
The contest is open-themed and there are no specific categories for subject matter. Photographs that are submitted must indicate if they are being entered as a color or black and white entry.

Winning photos will be published in the November 2010 issue of Photographer’s Forum magazine. All contest finalists will be published in the hardcover edition of Best Photography 2010.

This is an entry fee of $3.95 USD per photo. There is no limit to the number of photos you may enter as long as each submission is covered by an entry fee. If you submit your photos by April 19, 2010 the entry fee is $3.95 USD. If you submit your photos after April 19, 2010 the entry fee is $4.95 USD per photo.

To submit your photos online, click here to register and upload your submissions. Online entries must have a long dimension of at least 1000 pixels and no larger than 3000 pixels. Save all work in JPG format at the highest quality setting. Requirements for color space are Adobe1998, sRGB or untagged color space. File size should not exceed 4MB.

To submit your photos or slides via standard mail, the sponsor states:

* Enter black & white or color prints or slides. Do not send disks.
* Prints must be unmounted 9×12 or smaller.
* Label every photo with your name and address, and indicate which edge is the top.
* Make checks payable to Photographer’s Forum.
* All entries MUST include payment, entry form, and photographs.

Prizes
According to the official details for this contest the awards are:

First Place Grand Prize
$2,000 cash award from Photographer’s Forum PLUS Sigma
24-70 mm lens

Second Place
$1,000 cash award from Photographer’s Forum PLUS Sigma
12-24 mm lens

Third Place
$500 cash award from Photographer’s Forum

Fourth Place
Five $100 awards

100 Honorable Mentions
All Honorable Mentions will be listed in the November 2010 issue of Photographer’s Forum magazine and will receive a gold embossed certificate of outstanding merit from Photographer’s Forum.

Other Information
For contest rules click here to download the PDF document. For the contest FAQs and additional guidelines click here. The contest deadline is May 17, 2010. Finalists will be notified by August 2, 2010. Winners will be notified by August 16, 2010.

The Contest
The Center for Fine Art Photography is announcing an open call for all photographers to enter its photo contest. The theme of the competition is “Consumption.” According to the sponsor:

“Consumption is a multifaceted term. While it can signify the influence of advertising and marketing on our pervasive consumer culture, the word also speaks to profound human instincts. To be consumed by something-be it illness, emotions, or beliefs-is to oftentimes confront one’s realities.

“What, why, when, and how we consume determines the ramifications of the choices we make. Additionally, consumption can simply suggest a transformation. The Center is looking for images that visually depict Consumption and what it means to you.”"

Entrants who have their works selected for this contest may have the opportunity to have their photographs displayed at the ClampArt art gallery located in Chelsea, New York. These works will be seen by an international group of art consultants, collectors, and curators interested in fine art photography.

Submission Information
* An entry fee of $35 is required for submissions of up to three images. Members of the Center for Fine Art Photography will have an entry fee of $20 for up to three images. Additional images will be accepted at $10 per extra submission above three. Contestants may submit as many entries as they like.

* Entries are to be submitted online at the Center’s website at www.c4fap.org. You will need to create a free account in order to upload your entries. Entry fees are charged via credit card.

* Resolution of uploaded images should be 72 dpi and 1280 pixels on the longest side of the image. Images must be in RGB or grayscale. File format should be in JPG saved with a quality of 8 or medium. The image title is restricted to 40 characters or less. The file name cannot be more than 25 characters long and must not include special characters such as %, #, @ etc. All images must be “flattened” or in other words, multi-layers must be collapsed to one master layer.

Awards
* liveBooks Website Award: Valued at $399 each, two artists will receive a 1 year subscription for ..a.website from www.livebooks.com
* Juror’s Selection Award: $300 and a Blurb book award from www.Blurb.com
* Director’s Selection Award: $200 and a Blurb book award from www.Blurb.com
* Honorable Mention Award: $100
* All exhibitors are included in the Center’s online gallery

Other Details
Important Milestones:
Entries due: April 13, 2010
Notice of acceptance: April 23, 2010
Exhibition dates: July 2 - July 24, 2010
Artists’ and Public Reception: July 2, 2010

Entries that are submitted for exhibition must be framed or mounted professionally. For a complete list of guidelines for this contest, download the PDF document here. For any questions about this contest send your emails to exhibitions [at] c4fap.org.

All (Digital) Portfolios Welcome
Eyemazing magazine is sponsoring the Jacob Riis Photography Portfolio Award Competition and is announcing an open call to all photographers for portfolios of their work.

The Contest Details
The images submitted will be critiques as part of the whole portfolio and their contribution to the photographer’s theme. According to the sponsor:

The Jacob Riis Award is named after the Danish-American photographer (1849-1914), and is organized by WPGA following its partnership with Save the Children, and sponsored by Eyemazing Magazine.

It will focus in portfolios (minimum of 8 and maximum of 12 images) inviting photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements will be welcome.

The Award is open worldwide to all professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both.

There is no theme for this Award, and the images will be evaluated as a cohesive body of work (a theme or images representing the artistic trajectory of the photographer), rather than individual images.

How to Submit
There is an entry fee of $60 for each portfolio and a minimum of 8 images and a maximum of 12.

All portfolios will only be accepted through online submissions via email or CD. The contest rules state:

* Digital image files must meet the following specifications: 8 bit JPEG files(CMYK and 16 bits files will not be uploaded), the largest dimension should be1280 pixels (width or height), resolution of 72 dpi, JPG compression quality of 7.

* Layers must be flattened. Images will be viewed by the jurors as RGB images; therefore Adobe RGB 98 or SRGB profiles should be used. Image title may not exceed 40 characters.

* Please note that image title is the name of the artwork, not the file name. Start the name with Porfolio 1 (Portfolio 2, Porfolio 3, etc, if you’re submitting more than one porfolio). i.e “Portfolio 1 name of image”.

* Files may contain a maximum of 25 characters, not counting .jpg. The file name may not include characters such as #, $, &, periods or other similar characters as part of the file. There will be only one period in the file name, just prior to the file extension (i.e. filename.jpg).

Awards
The winner will have his/her portfolio published in Eyemazing magazine sometime during the year of 2010. A cash award of $3,000 will be given to the winner.

Finalist in the contest will be published in the Jacob Riss Award 2010 photo book.

Any sales of exhibited work will be charged a commission of 40%. All selected images will be posted in the Gallery WonderPick for online sales.

Other Information
To register or submit your work to this contest, click here. For the official contest rules click here. The contest deadline for entries is January 24, 2010.