Plant a poster for next year’s West Seattle Garden Tour!

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(WSB photo from one stop on this year’s WSGT)
While this is the dormant season for many gardens, it’s a busy time of planning for the next West Seattle Garden Tour, which is now inviting artists to get ready to enter next year’s poster contest:

The West Seattle Garden Tour provides an opportunity for local artists to showcase their original artwork on marketing materials, including the cover of the WSGT ticket book and promotional poster. The winning artist also receives a $500 cash award. Winning and honorable mention artworks will be featured during the June 2016 West Seattle Art Walk.

Please accept this invitation to submit your original artwork to the annual WSGT Poster Competition. Submission rules and entry form are available on our website.

The West Seattle Garden Tour (WSGT) is one of the premier garden tours in the Northwest, as well as a fundraiser for local non-profits promoting horticulture, education or the arts. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organized by a group of dedicated volunteers. Since its inception in 1995, the WSGT has donated nearly a half million dollars to local beneficiaries.

Entries are due in early February.

JunctionGirl December 3, 2015 (1:03 pm)

I encourage the West Seattle Garden Tour to hire a designer and not rely on a contest. A contest compromises the quality of work you are entitled to and also violates a tacit, long-standing ethical standard in the communication design profession worldwide. The nation’s largest and oldest professional association for design, AIGA, strongly
discourages the practice of requesting that design work be produced and submitted on a speculative basis in order to be considered for acceptance on a project.

http://www.aiga.org/position-spec-work/

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