Portrait Project
photo Britta Trygstad, Milestones Photography
We would love to see your face—and a lot of other faces, too. And, one of them may become famous … or almost.
We invite you to join us in the Plains Art Museum Portrait Project, inspired by the exhibition Individual to Icon: Portraits of the Famous and Almost Famous from Folk Art to Facebook. The project is two-fold. First, a juried portrait contest—open to any visual artist—will determine a winning portrait to be featured as an auction item at the 14th Annual Spring Gala (see details below). The winning artist will also receive a free ticket to the Gala and the portrait will be used as the profile photo on the Plains Art Museum Facebook page … to be seen by the world!
Second, the project features an online “portrait wall” using the website Flickr. Do you have a funny face? Show it! A serious one? Show that too. How about your coworkers or your group of friends? Get ‘em on there! It’s easy: Set up a free Flickr account, join our group, then upload portraits of yourself and others. The goal? Compile a whole lotta faces. That’s it. If you’d like, you can stick around and discuss our Individual to Icon exhibition.
Get involved, have some fun, and help us celebrate the art of portraiture. Call Kris at 701.232.3821 ext. 121 or email kkerzman@plainsart.org with any questions.
Contest Details
Visual artists can submit up to five portraits in any medium for the contest. Please send a medium resolution image that would be suitable for the web. If selected, we’ll ask you to send us either the original piece or a high-resolution image that we can print ourselves. The winning portrait (selected by jury) will be auctioned off at this year’s Spring Gala and the image will be used as our Facebook profile picture for the month leading up to the Gala. Submissions are due by 4 pm on March 26, 2010 and can be emailed to kkerzman@plainsart.org or sent attention to Kris Kerzman Plains Art Museum, 704 1st Ave N, Fargo, ND, 58102. Please include your name, the title of the piece, size, media and email/phone contact. For details about the contest, please call Kris Kerzman at 701.232.3821 ext. 121 or email kkerzman@plainsart.org.
