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🥊 💥THE INTERNATIONAL PORTRAIT KNOCKOUT 💥🥊

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The IPKO is a day-long PORTRAIT COMPETITION featuring...

✔︎ 50 professional artists working in the 2 dimensional mediums of painting and drawing will be selected to compete

✔︎ the 5 Rowdy Rounds are 90 minutes (aka 1 1/2 hours)

✔︎ to be the victor, an artist must proceed through and win a total of all FIVE live modeling sessions

✔︎ the public is encourage to attend and purchase art created during the event (see below for details)

✔︎ the IPKO is an invitational event, but we are currently accepting WILD CARD applicants. APPLY HERE

✔︎ entry fee (artists): $30.00

✔︎ May 11, 2019 (approximately 9 A - 9 P). Further details will be made available to those who apply

✔︎ Location:

New Hope Arts Center

2 Stockton Avenue

New Hope, PA 18938

JUDGING:

Each round will consist of different rules and objectives, and will be judged by a panel of qualified jurors. They will consider everything from technical accomplishment, to conceptual ideas, creative use of expression, mark-making, aesthetic pleasure and contemporary relevance.

The winner of the event will take home a $1000 USD cash prize and will be granted admission to the following year’s event in order to defend their title.

The General Public is invited to attend the IPKO in order to observe art being made in the flesh, to support and cheer on their favorite artists while enjoying beverages, music and snacks from vendors during the spectacle of this ART-MEETS-SPORTING event.

SALES:

ALL ART CREATED BY THE ARTISTS OF THE IPKO DURING THE EVENT WILL BE FOR SALE IN A SILENT AUCTION WITH A RESERVE PRICE OF $100 per portrait.

• Artists receive 50% of the sale price
• Event organizers retain 50%

The proceeds from this specific event will be used to support future programming within the New Hope Arts Center under the direction of LOCKTENDER ART PROJECTS, whose mission is to foster a growing artistic community centered around contemporary concerns while creating and sustaining likeminded art spaces.

We are focused on presenting contemporary art, supporting emerging talent, providing community-driven educational opportunities, promoting the importance of soft skills, and providing curatorial opportunities to contemporary artists for community engagement.