Any student enrolled in a GCC arts course can enter their coursework in the Artists of Promise 2022 competition; winners will have their work displayed in the virtual Artists of Promise Gala in April 2020 as well as receiving a cash prize.
Before the March 21, 2022 deadline, students can prepare and refine work that was made during the 2021 or 2022 school years for a GCC course. Work must be as a result of the course, as opposed to outside projects, but it can be edited and built upon all the way up to the deadline. For this event, students may submit animation, film, or video game-based media. There are separate categories for nonfiction versus fiction films. Students may submit up to two entries per category, but will only be recognized once per category upon winning.
This competition is an opportunity for student artists to gain recognition for their work and a foothold in their industry. Winning an arts competition can be a great way to get noticed and a solid addition to a resume. Furthermore, entering an arts competition can help a student artist learn more about their industry and craft, even if they do not win. Understanding how to make one’s work appealing to others is an important lesson in the arts and a competition can show you where your strengths and weaknesses lie, as well as providing you with examples of other strong or weak pieces. It is always valuable to study and appreciate the work of one’s peers.
The competition is free to enter, and there are other categories including creative writing, music, fashion, and dance. Each category in the competition is organized and judged differently, and they all have different deadlines, so anyone interested needs to be proactive about applying.
To learn more or apply, click here or do a Google search for “artists of promise maricopa.” Winning work will be featured in the virtual Artists of Promise Gala, which is scheduled for some time in April 2022.
Hi Julia,
The artist of promise competition I think is a great event especially for students in the creative arts. This helps them to showcase their work and gives them experience to loose the fear of showing their work. Some artist will shy away from showing what they create but GCC gives an opportunity to show those talents. Once students join these types of events they can ease into the process because in this field you have to show your work one way or another. You went into detail as to when students needed to submit their work by and what types of work can be submitted. I didn’t know that dance, fashion and creative writing were a part of this competition but it does make sense. This can be a fun even to enter even if you don’t win. Winning is good of course but at least you try and join in on the competitions. I agree that appreciating other artist work is valuable as you will be asked for your opinion and opinion of others in this kind of work. It’s nice to see what other artist come up with and wonder how they came of with great ideas. It’s all part of the creative process.
Hello Julia,
You did a great job on this post. There’s plenty of information here to learn about the Artists of Promise Competition.
I think it’s really important for student artists to put their work out there for people to see and critique. Not only will they learn more by doing this, but they will have more confidence in showing their work.
When I see other people’s art when I’m stuck on a project, it can help me become motivated to finish the project. It could motivate them to do something different in their art work in the future. Since it is based on work created in classes since the spring of 2021, it could show other students looking into these kinds of classes what they could be doing if they decide to take those classes.
I will definitely be checking this and the other categories out some more. In April, I’ll also be checking out the virtual Artists of Promise Gala. I look forward to seeing more posts informing us about these different kinds of competitions. I might even add in some of my work I did the last two semesters into one of these categories for the competition. Thanks for all of the great information!
Hi Julia,
This was a great job you did on the post, as it showed plenty of information here to learn about the Artists of Promise Competition. It’s very important for a student artist to put their work out there for people to see and critique, as they won’t get any feedback if they don’t. This will help that artist learn more, but also raise their confidence in posting their work more in the future. I personally held myself back from posting my own art out there because I was worried that others would see it in a negative light. After some encouragement from friends and family, I finally gave in and posted my first piece, only to be shocked at the positive feedback I was receiving. Since then, I’ve continued to post my art for all to see, gaining more and more feedback while also learning a lot more to help my art. I will be sure to check back on this in April, and maybe throw some of my own work in for the competition. Thanks for the information!
Hi Julia! Your ad content is very specific and informative to anyone who is new and interested in this competition. I can see its nice structure that follows the inverted pyramid well. I suggest moving the fourth paragraph (free to enter…) closer to the top of the content as I think information about price is important too. For the first paragraph, I think you can replace the semicolon with a period. Reading a whole sentence that long won’t show a good arrangement, so it’s better to split it into two sentences. I like how your content has simple wording; this definitely gives people information without making them unintentionally misunderstand it. Nice job on the cover image as well, I really like it!
I did join this Artists of Promise competition last year. I submitted my animation project about my country’s iconic street food – Banh Mi, and I had no further thoughts about winning at all. Yet, I actually became the runner-up for the Animation field, so that was a great memory for me. I agree with the third paragraph that shows the benefits of engaging in this competition towards your skills as an artist. I didn’t even think about adding my runner-up winning animation to the resume, so thanks a lot for your informative content. I don’t have great works to submit for this year, but I’m looking forward to this year’s winners and their works.
Hi Julia! I love that you chose the Artists of Promise competition to write about. First being because there are probably quite a few people in our courses that may actually be interested in entering this. Myself included. Secondly, It fits really well with the course, especially because there are the multiple categories you highlighted. Your article is well written and easy to read. I definitely agree that the information about the price of entering the competition should go before the paragraph above it. Other than that, it looks beautiful overall. The other thing I really appreciated about your article was that you included a direct link for the audience to have instant access to the event page and submission application. Adding the information on how entering an art competition can boost not only an artists feedback was a wonderful idea. That and the opportunity for artists to get their work out into the field. I know a lot of beginning artists that really struggle with finding a way to have their work seen by the community, so it was great that you highlighted that. I would have really liked to have also seen a link or some form of navigation for the previous Artists of Promise Galas.