Prize Eleanor Worthington
Contest intended to STUDENTS SCHOOLS ART in LEVEL OF TERTIARY EDUCATION
Inclusion of disability in Raffaello's world
7th editionOn the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, celebrated by the United Nations on 3rd of December each year, the Eleanor Worthington Prize Association proposes the awarding of the 7th edition of the Eleanor Worthington Prize reserved for students schools art at the of tertiary education.
Eleanor Worthington (York, UK, 1982 - Urbino, Italy, 2008) was a very intelligent and sensitive person, and of considerable personality strength, who suffered from severe learning and behavioral difficulties, and from epilepsy; she has always managed to communicate, even if in recent years she could no longer speak or move; he had a life full of affections, social relationships, and experiences, both in England and in Italy, where he attended the five years of the State Institute of Art (now Liceo Artistico) in Urbino.
International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
INCLUSION OF DISABILITY IN THE RAFFAELLO'S WORLD
As a theme for the 2020 Award, this year the APEW proposes The harmonious world of Raffaello on canvases, cartoons for tapestries, frescoes, describes a variety of subjects: the sweet Madonnas, portraits, biblical and mythological scenes, in which they are including a number of characters, including many disabled people. Among them, for example, Omero, the blind poet, in Parnassus; the elderly man carried on the shoulder by his son to escape the fire in the Borgo of Rome; the lame person healed by the Apostles in the temple in Jerusalem; the magician temporarily blinded by the Apostles themselves to surprise and convert the Roman proconsul; the epileptic boy then healed by Jesus Christ coming down from Mount Tabor.
These figures never appear alone, but are included in groups or crowds that form and share their story.
On the fifth centenary of Raffaello from Urbino death, candidates are invited to explore the theme of the prize INCLUSION OF DISABILITY IN THE RAFFAELLO'S WORLD with a personal reworking of Raffaello's work, or with an original elaboration. All the various techniques of visual communication are accepted (for example painting, sculpture, illustration, animation, graphics, engraving, goldsmithing, photography, design, lettering, and new technologies ), also with reference to bodily expressions such as mime, sign language, sports disciplines, fitness, dance.
Free registration for the Award must be communicated to: info@premioeleanor.it specifying the institution of origin and the year of registration.
Competitors send their designs to info@premioeleanor.it via WETRANSFER
The files must be compressed, for example .rar or .zip
Entries must be sent by the 15th of November 2020.
Each work must have a title, which can also coincide with the theme of the Prize.
Each participating work must contain the image of the work in .jpg format (not in .pdf), in high resolution for printing (300 DPI) in high resolution for printing (300 DPI), for the purposes of any documentation for the exhibition. For the purposes of the exhibition at York St John University, and any other exhibitions to which the Prize may be invited to exhibit, the works will be printed in cm. 100X70
Animations and videos must have a duration of no more than 3 minutes, and must be: MP4 format, H264 compression.
For any works in VR, the codes must be precisely indicated to be viewed correctly.
Each work can contain a very short concept (max 400 characters including spaces, for presentation on the Prize website). The concept must be in Italian and in English. The concept must be in .doc or .docx format
Each work must be accompanied by a short audio with a description of the work (which is not the concept) to make it accessible to blind people, lasting no more than two minutes. The audio is played either in Italian or in English.
Two versions of each work are required, one nominative (for the exhibition and the website), and one anonymous (for the jury).
The papers are evaluated anonymously.
The evaluation will be made by the jury, based on criteria that will take into account:
- consistency with respect to the theme
- communicative effectiveness
- originality
- general impression
The jury is made up of:
Bruno Bartoccini, ANFFAS from Fermignano, Urbania and Urbino
Giulio Calegari, Artist and Palethnologist
Roberto Gobesso, ISIA Urbino
Griselda Goldsbrough, Arts Development Manager for the York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Mariella Roberti, Psychopedagogue
Martin Worthington, Lecturer, University of Cambridge
Prize winners will be announced on the website by the 30th of November 2020. First, second and third prizes are awarded. For each level of the award, two will be awarded, one for students from Italian institutions, one for students from British institutions.
First prizes: for competitors from Italian institutions, the first prize consists of a week of hospitality with room and board at York St John University, during the spring or summer of 2021; for competitors from British institutions, the first prize consists of a week of hospitality with room and board at the Colleges of the University of Urbino, in the summer or September 2021. During the award ceremony, a contribution to travel expenses will be awarded.
Second prizes: consist of € 300 each, offered by the Municipality of Urbino.
Third prizes: consist of art books offered by the Municipality of Urbania.
The Special Award of the Social Territorial Area IV of the Marche Region, equivalent to a first prize, will be awarded to a student enrolled in one of the institutions based in Urbino.
The Mark Bailey Special Award, equivalent to a first prize, will be awarded to a student enrolled in one of the York-based institutions.
The award ceremony will take place at the Conference Hall, Palazzo Ducale di Urbino, on Thursday 3rd of December 2020 at 10 am. During the award ceremony, all the works presented will be shown to the public in digital format.
If, due to external situations, it is not possible to hold the award ceremony in a public place, an online award ceremony will take place, in the manner illustrated on the website www.premioeleanor.it
All the works presented will be displayed in the exhibition dedicated to the Award, which will be held at York St John University, in York, Great Britain, in the spring of 2021, on a date to be determined, which will be announced on the website.
Each candidate expressly authorizes the Eleanor Worthington Prize Association as well as its legal representative, to process the personal data transmitted pursuant to Law 675/96 (Privacy Law) and subsequent amendments of Legislative Decree 196/2003 (Privacy Code), also for the purpose of inclusion in databases managed by the Association itself. Each participant in the competition grants the Eleanor Worthington Prize Association the rights to reproduce the competing works and concepts free of charge, for the sole purpose of publication on the Prize website and other forms of communication, promotion and activities of the Association. itself. Those who do not wish to appear with their works on the Prize website must declare it at the time of registration. The organizers of the competition will have the right to make a final decision on anything not specified in this announcement.
In addition, each candidate expressly authorizes the Eleanor Worthington Prize Association, as well as its legal representative, to request confirmation of belonging to the school indicated at the time of registration for the Award. The organization reserves the right to make changes to the announcement if the need arises.
For the Eleanor Worthington Prize Association
Giuliana Parodi
Art and disability
Competition 2020
Prize Eleanor Worthington - 7th Edition
Examples of disabilities in the Raffaello's world
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