WASHINGTON HEIGHTS – The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance is calling on all artists to submit their best Uptown work for its annual Uptown Arts Stroll Poster Contest for a chance to win $750 and have their work featured on all the posters for the event.
The 2017 Uptown Arts Stroll, which is a month-long arts festival that runs from West 135th St. to West 220th St. usually in June, “has come a long way from the start — the Sunday before Thanksgiving 2003,” event coordinator Martin Collins said in a statement.
The winning art will be selected by a panel of local judges from the arts community, and should be an eye-catching and unpublished image that captures elements of Uptown’s diversity, inclusiveness and dynamic arts scene, organizers said in a statement. The artist must also be a West Harlem, Washington Heights or Inwood resident.
The artist must submit the project, with a brief bio or artist statement, and image that’s large enough to format to poster size, no later than Friday, February 24.
Previous winners include graphic designers Edwin Ureña, who designed a woman painting the skyline of Upper Manhattan with a George Washington Bridge Background, and Andrew Short, with an emblem design that highlights the arts in the community with microphones, musical instruments, a film strip and clusters of buildings.
Other artists, like Felipe Galindo and popular T-shirt designer, M. Tony Peralta, also took home the prize with their George Washington Bridge and Little Red Lighthouse-inspired work.
For more information, visit NoMAA's website.