With the 2014 Moscow Farmers Market only a couple months away, a poster is needed to represent the traditional local event. Thus, the City of Moscow Arts Department is holding the Farmers Market poster contest to get local artists involved with poster creation.
The winner will receive a $100 award. The deadline for this year’s submissions is March 20.
According to the contest application, anyone may enter the contest regardless of age or experience. However, artists outside a 200-mile radius of Moscow are restricted from submitting their work to the contest.
The posters may be submitted in any two-dimensional medium, from crayons to markers and paints to photographs. Each work needs to be submitted as an 11 inch by 17 inch piece and mounted on black foam core.
Moscow Art Director Kathleen Burns said the city is looking to promote Idaho’s oldest Farmers Market in the best way possible.
“The Moscow Farmers Market is the oldest Farmers Market in the state of Idaho,” Burns said. “And so, it’s a great story and we want to promote the market as best we can. So we do a call out to artists.”
Burns said the city is looking for a poster that will represent the market and its offerings.
“We like a great representation of the market, and especially for produce and local food, plants and flowers and of course handmade crafts,” Burns said.
Burns said the city also wants to emphasize the market as a produce market, not an art or flea market. The posters need to center on produce goods. Burns added that she is excited for the contest.
“Well, I’m really excited, because we list the submissions in the Third Street Gallery, after we receive them all,” Burns said. “And then we’ll put them up on the Internet and the public can vote for their posters, which is really fun, too. But we’ll have it be interactive.”
The Third Street Gallery will host all the submissions April 2-16.
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