Florida Comic Strip Challenge

Florida Comic Strip Challenge

Amateur cartoonists throughout Florida are invited to create their own original comic strip in this fun contest and exhibition. Cartoonists ages 5-and-up will compete for prizes and have a chance to exhibit their own original framed strip from Aug. 3-11 at the Center, in conjunction with the exhibition Charles M. Schulz: Pop Culture in Peanuts.

Comic strips of up to four panels may be drawn in pen, pen and ink, marker, pencil and/or digital media within an 8½ x 11-inch sheet of white paper. Entries must be framed. The title of the comic and name of the entrant should be included on the strip page.

Select pieces will be displayed at the Center and participating cartoonists will compete for prizes according to the contest categories.

Entry fee: $5.

Note: All submissions must be framed and frames are available at the Center for an additional $10 rental fee.

Prizes:
The top three individuals in each entry category will receive official recognition and prizes from the Center and Barker Animation Art Gallery. The top three winners in the Teams/Families category receive a gift certificate to enjoy a pizza party.

Entry Categories:
• Individuals ages 5-10
• Individuals ages 11-17
• Individuals 18 and up
• Teams/Families

Judging criteria includes creativity, humor and draftsmanship.

Important Dates:
Sunday, July 28, 2013: Entry deadline. Entries must be delivered or shipped to the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, 1650 Harrison Street, during normal gallery hours (10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and noon-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday).
Aug. 3-11: Select entries will be on display in the Florida Comic Strip Challenge exhibition in the Center’s upstairs gallery.
Sunday, Aug. 11: Awards presentation (2 p.m.)

Florida Comic Strip Challenge rules:
• Entries must be drawn on an 8½ x 11-inch sheet of white paper and submitted in a frame. Frames may be rented for an additional charge of $10.
• Designs, drawings and characters must be original – no tracing.
• Comic strips may be black-and-white or color, and have one to four panels.
• Limit one comic strip entry per individual or team/family. Persons may enter in the Individual category and as a member of a Team/Family.
• Contestants are not permitted any outside help unless entering in the Team/Family category.
• All pieces must be accompanied by a fully completed official registration form. Forms are available at www.ArtAndCultureCenter.org and at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood.
• The decisions of the contest judges are final.
• Comic Strip Challenge entries must be picked up from the Center’s Gallery no later than 5 p.m., on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. Comic strips may be returned unframed by the Center via U.S. Mail for a $2 handling charge.

Questions? Call 954.921.3274

General Rules and Guidelines:
By entering the contest, all participants and/or their legal guardians agree to release the exhibition sponsors and the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood (ACCH) of all liability that could result from participating in the contest, attending the event, or the awarding of the contest prizes. The contest and all participants may be photographed and videotaped. By submitting an entry for this contest, entrants and their parents/guardians hereby grant permission to the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood and sponsors to use any photographs and/or videos of the entrant or the entrant’s submitted drawing, for any promotional use.

The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood and/or any sponsors or agents are not responsible for any lost, late, damaged, destroyed, illegible, or incomplete entries.

Each individual contestant and a guest (for underage contestants it would be a parent and/or guardian) will receive complimentary admission to the Center during the Florida Comic Strip Challenge exhibition dates. All others wishing to attend will be charged regular admission fees. Each entrant will receive their guest passes at the time of delivery to the Center. If mailing entry, upon receipt of submission, the Center will mail two passes via U.S. Mail.

By submitting an entry form and comic strip to this contest, entrants and their parents/guardians agree to these official rules and regulations and the decisions of the judges.

The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood’s Florida Comic Strip Challenge is not sponsored nor affiliated in any way with the estate of Charles M. Schulz or the Charles M. Schulz Museum.

Funding Acknowledgements

The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood is a 501©(3) non-profit organization supported in part by its members, admissions, private entities, the City of Hollywood, the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and the Kresge Foundation. We welcome donations from all members of the community who wish to support our work.

Karen Starosta-Gilinski: Cloud 9

Jun. 9 – Aug. 19, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Jun. 8, 6 - 9 pm

Karen Starosta-Gilinski is a contemporary artist that takes provocative textured objects and alters them; she starts to break them apart or cut open a plush toy and put it together with another object until it becomes visually satisfying and strong enough to express the unique look of a character or situation. The results are whimsical, humorous, and at times unsettling works of art.

more

Nathan Sawaya: The Art of The Brick

Jun. 9 – Aug. 19, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Jun. 8, 6 - 9 pm
Nathan Sawaya Live Day Build Sat., June 9, 11am- 5pm

The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood is very pleased to present its third exhibition of the work of New York-based artist Nathan Sawaya. In the 2012 exhibition of The Art of The Brick, Sawaya will present a selection of new works not seen previously at the Center.

more

Moira Holohan

Mar. 24 – May. 27, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., March. 23, 6 - 9 pm

Moira Holohan’s practice focuses on experimentation through layering of several media; assemblage, video animation, and collage. She will be presenting animated video works inspired by the four classic elements of nature: earth, air, water, and fire.

more

Philip Estlund: Subprime/Subtropics

Mar. 24 – May. 27, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., March. 23, 6 - 9 pm

Subprime-Subtropics is Phillip Estlund’s first solo exhibition in Broward County. The Lake Worth-based contemporary visual artist will exhibit sculptures and two-dimensional collages that inhabit the psychological and physical terrain left behind by man-made and natural disasters.

more

John DeFaro: Trawler

Feb. 11 – Mar. 11, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Feb. 10, 6 - 9 pm

“Trawler” is the name given to a boat or vessel used for trawling. John DeFaro’s site specific installation will combine activism and environmental concerns with visual art as a communicator.

more

Christina Pettersson: The Sentinel

Feb. 11 – Mar. 11, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Feb. 10, 6 - 9 pm

Christina Pettersson’s drawings examine the self not as one lives it, but as one’s imagination creates it. The Sentinel will focus on Florida as a tropical locale that is almost always remaking itself through what she calls “the alluring mystery of faraway places.”

more

Abracadabra: Fifth Annual Exhibition and Fund-raising Raffle

Feb. 11 – Mar. 9, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Feb. 10, 6 - 9 pm
Abracadabra Raffle Event Friday, March 9th

Now in its fifth year, this exhibition and fund-raiser is comprised of approximately 100 donated works in all media by artists who have been invited to participate. Abracadabra culminates with a live raffle of these outstanding art works in the main gallery. All works are exhibited prior to the evening of the raffle, affording ticket buyers an opportunity to preview the art before the main event!

more

Giannina Coppiano Dwin: Nothing We Call Our Own

Oct. 29, 2011 – Jan. 29, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Oct. 28, 6 - 9 pm

Ecuadorian native Giannina Coppiano Dwin’s work, which may include performance and always allows the interaction of time, expresses a desire to transform simple materials into symbols of life’s basic needs. For her exhibition in the Focus South Florida: Project Room, Dwin will present a site specific installation and performance as well as photographs.

more

Freddy Jouwayed: Forks in the Wave Function

Oct. 29, 2011 – Jan. 29, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Oct. 28, 6 - 9 pm

Miami based artist Freddy Jouwayed will present a site specific installation in the Center’s middle galleries of his labor intensive drawings on paper.

more

Artist Unknown/The Free World

Organized by John D. Monteith & Oliver Wasow

Oct. 29, 2011 – Jan. 29, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Oct. 28, 6 - 9 pm
Book Release Event: Sat., Oct. 29, 1 - 4 pm

The U.S. premiere of a first-of-its-kind exhibition features hundreds of images of vernacular photography found online by artists John D. Monteith and Oliver Wasow. From the bizarre to the sublime, these anonymously sourced amateur photographs provide a fascinating view of American culture through the new frontier of social media.

more

South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition 2011

Sept. 10 – Oct. 16, 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., Sept. 9, 6 - 9 pm
Free admission for Opening Reception

The Art and Culture of Hollywood is honored to present for the first time in its 30+ year history, the exhibition of winners of the 23rd Annual South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Arts Fellowship Awards.

The recipients were selected during a two-tier panel process which included the participation of regional and national arts experts.

more

Michael O'Brien: Impact Zone

June 18 – Aug. 14, 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., June 17, 6-9 pm

Michael O’Brien loves the water. More specifically, the salt water- the ocean. Surfing for 35 years, O’Brien has surfed from California to the north shore of Oahu. His work is an expression of 20 years with a camera in the impact zone.

more

Ed Templeton: The Seconds Pass

June 18 – Aug. 14, 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., June 17, 6-9 pm

Internationally recognized artist and skateboarding legend Ed Templeton creates works that juxtapose his street photography in quasi-narrative groupings.

more

Ryan Humphrey: Fast Forward

June 18 – Aug. 14, 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., June 17, 6-9 pm
BMX Opening Extravaganza: Sat., June 18, 12-4 pm

New-York-based contemporary artist Ryan Humphrey incorporates BMX bikes in dynamic 2- and 3-dimensional works. Fast Forward features a large-scale, floor-to-ceiling installation in which BMX bikes are attached to the gallery walls. The installation includes a massive wrap-around rug, a collection of bike-inspired paintings and mixed-media pieces, and three interpretations of Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel (1913) set against BMX bike ramps. An interactive activity area is also a part of the exhibition.

more

Fifth All-Media Juried Biennial

April 30 – June 5, 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., April 29, 6-9 pm

Exhibition Jurors: Scott Murray, Owner and Director, Twenty Twenty Projects, Miami; Michelle Weinberg, artist, Creative Director, Girls’ Club, Fort Lauderdale.

The All-Media Juried Biennial will include paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, photography, video, computer-generated images, site-specific installations, and performance art from Florida-based artists. Sixty eight works were selected from 825 entries submitted by 294 artists. Award winners will be announced at the opening reception.

Special Event: Fri., May 13, 6-9 pm
An evening of experimental music and performance, featuring fsik huvnx, Pocket of Lollipops, Richard Vergez, and Susan Telemetry.

more

Lisa Rockford: The She-Monster Sideshow

April 30 – June 5, 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., April 29, 6-9 pm

The She-Monster Sideshow presents a series of large-scale banner paintings representing mythical females. These “she-monsters” are drawn from pre-existing pop culture imagery, humorously referencing historical myth and narrative. Bring your cameras! There will be an interactive photo op.

more

Cristina Lei Rodriguez: Forever

March 5 – April 10, 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., March 4, 6-9 pm

Cristina Lei Rodriguez’s Forever presents a survey of sculptures and installations from 2003 through 2010. Delving into the aesthetics of desire that are part of the consumer products that surround us, her works are primarily sculptural landscapes, sometimes very realistic and other times very abstract.

more

Louise Erhard: Yes, No, and Everything in Between

March 5 – April 10, 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., March 4, 6-9 pm

Louise Erhard’s work explores the dynamics of her interpersonal relationships and the ways her ego and misperceptions have affected those relationships in the past. Her creation of space and place is executed through collage. Beginning with a clean board, Erhard layers mixed media from everyday publications — cut and pasted from posed advertising imagery and the discarded decorative elements from our collective pasts. Her use and manipulation of common imagery of architectural elements is intended to create visual representations of the everyday struggle with one’s ego and the desire to rise above it.

more

Florida Comic Strip Challenge

Florida Comic Strip Challenge

Amateur cartoonists throughout Florida are invited to create their own original comic strip in this fun contest and exhibition. Cartoonists ages 5-and-up will compete for prizes and have a chance to exhibit their own original framed strip from Aug. 3-11 at the Center, in conjunction with the exhibition Charles M. Schulz: Pop Culture in Peanuts.

Comic strips of up to four panels may be drawn in pen, pen and ink, marker, pencil and/or digital media within an 8½ x 11-inch sheet of white paper. Entries must be framed. The title of the comic and name of the entrant should be included on the strip page.

Select pieces will be displayed at the Center and participating cartoonists will compete for prizes according to the contest categories.

Entry fee: $5.

Note: All submissions must be framed and frames are available at the Center for an additional $10 rental fee.

Prizes:
The top three individuals in each entry category will receive official recognition and prizes from the Center and Barker Animation Art Gallery. The top three winners in the Teams/Families category receive a gift certificate to enjoy a pizza party.

Entry Categories:
• Individuals ages 5-10
• Individuals ages 11-17
• Individuals 18 and up
• Teams/Families

Judging criteria includes creativity, humor and draftsmanship.

Important Dates:
Sunday, July 28, 2013: Entry deadline. Entries must be delivered or shipped to the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, 1650 Harrison Street, during normal gallery hours (10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and noon-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday).
Aug. 3-11: Select entries will be on display in the Florida Comic Strip Challenge exhibition in the Center’s upstairs gallery.
Sunday, Aug. 11: Awards presentation (2 p.m.)

Florida Comic Strip Challenge rules:
• Entries must be drawn on an 8½ x 11-inch sheet of white paper and submitted in a frame. Frames may be rented for an additional charge of $10.
• Designs, drawings and characters must be original – no tracing.
• Comic strips may be black-and-white or color, and have one to four panels.
• Limit one comic strip entry per individual or team/family. Persons may enter in the Individual category and as a member of a Team/Family.
• Contestants are not permitted any outside help unless entering in the Team/Family category.
• All pieces must be accompanied by a fully completed official registration form. Forms are available at www.ArtAndCultureCenter.org and at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood.
• The decisions of the contest judges are final.
• Comic Strip Challenge entries must be picked up from the Center’s Gallery no later than 5 p.m., on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. Comic strips may be returned unframed by the Center via U.S. Mail for a $2 handling charge.

Questions? Call 954.921.3274

General Rules and Guidelines:
By entering the contest, all participants and/or their legal guardians agree to release the exhibition sponsors and the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood (ACCH) of all liability that could result from participating in the contest, attending the event, or the awarding of the contest prizes. The contest and all participants may be photographed and videotaped. By submitting an entry for this contest, entrants and their parents/guardians hereby grant permission to the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood and sponsors to use any photographs and/or videos of the entrant or the entrant’s submitted drawing, for any promotional use.

The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood and/or any sponsors or agents are not responsible for any lost, late, damaged, destroyed, illegible, or incomplete entries.

Each individual contestant and a guest (for underage contestants it would be a parent and/or guardian) will receive complimentary admission to the Center during the Florida Comic Strip Challenge exhibition dates. All others wishing to attend will be charged regular admission fees. Each entrant will receive their guest passes at the time of delivery to the Center. If mailing entry, upon receipt of submission, the Center will mail two passes via U.S. Mail.

By submitting an entry form and comic strip to this contest, entrants and their parents/guardians agree to these official rules and regulations and the decisions of the judges.

The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood’s Florida Comic Strip Challenge is not sponsored nor affiliated in any way with the estate of Charles M. Schulz or the Charles M. Schulz Museum.

Funding Acknowledgements

The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood is a 501©(3) non-profit organization supported in part by its members, admissions, private entities, the City of Hollywood, the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and the Kresge Foundation. We welcome donations from all members of the community who wish to support our work.

Karen Starosta-Gilinski: Cloud 9

Jun. 9 – Aug. 19, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Jun. 8, 6 - 9 pm

Karen Starosta-Gilinski is a contemporary artist that takes provocative textured objects and alters them; she starts to break them apart or cut open a plush toy and put it together with another object until it becomes visually satisfying and strong enough to express the unique look of a character or situation. The results are whimsical, humorous, and at times unsettling works of art.

more

Nathan Sawaya: The Art of The Brick

Jun. 9 – Aug. 19, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Jun. 8, 6 - 9 pm
Nathan Sawaya Live Day Build Sat., June 9, 11am- 5pm

The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood is very pleased to present its third exhibition of the work of New York-based artist Nathan Sawaya. In the 2012 exhibition of The Art of The Brick, Sawaya will present a selection of new works not seen previously at the Center.

more

Moira Holohan

Mar. 24 – May. 27, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., March. 23, 6 - 9 pm

Moira Holohan’s practice focuses on experimentation through layering of several media; assemblage, video animation, and collage. She will be presenting animated video works inspired by the four classic elements of nature: earth, air, water, and fire.

more

Philip Estlund: Subprime/Subtropics

Mar. 24 – May. 27, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., March. 23, 6 - 9 pm

Subprime-Subtropics is Phillip Estlund’s first solo exhibition in Broward County. The Lake Worth-based contemporary visual artist will exhibit sculptures and two-dimensional collages that inhabit the psychological and physical terrain left behind by man-made and natural disasters.

more

John DeFaro: Trawler

Feb. 11 – Mar. 11, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Feb. 10, 6 - 9 pm

“Trawler” is the name given to a boat or vessel used for trawling. John DeFaro’s site specific installation will combine activism and environmental concerns with visual art as a communicator.

more

Christina Pettersson: The Sentinel

Feb. 11 – Mar. 11, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Feb. 10, 6 - 9 pm

Christina Pettersson’s drawings examine the self not as one lives it, but as one’s imagination creates it. The Sentinel will focus on Florida as a tropical locale that is almost always remaking itself through what she calls “the alluring mystery of faraway places.”

more

Abracadabra: Fifth Annual Exhibition and Fund-raising Raffle

Feb. 11 – Mar. 9, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Feb. 10, 6 - 9 pm
Abracadabra Raffle Event Friday, March 9th

Now in its fifth year, this exhibition and fund-raiser is comprised of approximately 100 donated works in all media by artists who have been invited to participate. Abracadabra culminates with a live raffle of these outstanding art works in the main gallery. All works are exhibited prior to the evening of the raffle, affording ticket buyers an opportunity to preview the art before the main event!

more

Giannina Coppiano Dwin: Nothing We Call Our Own

Oct. 29, 2011 – Jan. 29, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Oct. 28, 6 - 9 pm

Ecuadorian native Giannina Coppiano Dwin’s work, which may include performance and always allows the interaction of time, expresses a desire to transform simple materials into symbols of life’s basic needs. For her exhibition in the Focus South Florida: Project Room, Dwin will present a site specific installation and performance as well as photographs.

more

Freddy Jouwayed: Forks in the Wave Function

Oct. 29, 2011 – Jan. 29, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Oct. 28, 6 - 9 pm

Miami based artist Freddy Jouwayed will present a site specific installation in the Center’s middle galleries of his labor intensive drawings on paper.

more

Artist Unknown/The Free World

Organized by John D. Monteith & Oliver Wasow

Oct. 29, 2011 – Jan. 29, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Oct. 28, 6 - 9 pm
Book Release Event: Sat., Oct. 29, 1 - 4 pm

The U.S. premiere of a first-of-its-kind exhibition features hundreds of images of vernacular photography found online by artists John D. Monteith and Oliver Wasow. From the bizarre to the sublime, these anonymously sourced amateur photographs provide a fascinating view of American culture through the new frontier of social media.

more

South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition 2011

Sept. 10 – Oct. 16, 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., Sept. 9, 6 - 9 pm
Free admission for Opening Reception

The Art and Culture of Hollywood is honored to present for the first time in its 30+ year history, the exhibition of winners of the 23rd Annual South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Arts Fellowship Awards.

The recipients were selected during a two-tier panel process which included the participation of regional and national arts experts.

more

Michael O'Brien: Impact Zone

June 18 – Aug. 14, 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., June 17, 6-9 pm

Michael O’Brien loves the water. More specifically, the salt water- the ocean. Surfing for 35 years, O’Brien has surfed from California to the north shore of Oahu. His work is an expression of 20 years with a camera in the impact zone.

more

Ed Templeton: The Seconds Pass

June 18 – Aug. 14, 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., June 17, 6-9 pm

Internationally recognized artist and skateboarding legend Ed Templeton creates works that juxtapose his street photography in quasi-narrative groupings.

more

Ryan Humphrey: Fast Forward

June 18 – Aug. 14, 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., June 17, 6-9 pm
BMX Opening Extravaganza: Sat., June 18, 12-4 pm

New-York-based contemporary artist Ryan Humphrey incorporates BMX bikes in dynamic 2- and 3-dimensional works. Fast Forward features a large-scale, floor-to-ceiling installation in which BMX bikes are attached to the gallery walls. The installation includes a massive wrap-around rug, a collection of bike-inspired paintings and mixed-media pieces, and three interpretations of Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel (1913) set against BMX bike ramps. An interactive activity area is also a part of the exhibition.

more

Fifth All-Media Juried Biennial

April 30 – June 5, 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., April 29, 6-9 pm

Exhibition Jurors: Scott Murray, Owner and Director, Twenty Twenty Projects, Miami; Michelle Weinberg, artist, Creative Director, Girls’ Club, Fort Lauderdale.

The All-Media Juried Biennial will include paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, photography, video, computer-generated images, site-specific installations, and performance art from Florida-based artists. Sixty eight works were selected from 825 entries submitted by 294 artists. Award winners will be announced at the opening reception.

Special Event: Fri., May 13, 6-9 pm
An evening of experimental music and performance, featuring fsik huvnx, Pocket of Lollipops, Richard Vergez, and Susan Telemetry.

more

Lisa Rockford: The She-Monster Sideshow

April 30 – June 5, 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., April 29, 6-9 pm

The She-Monster Sideshow presents a series of large-scale banner paintings representing mythical females. These “she-monsters” are drawn from pre-existing pop culture imagery, humorously referencing historical myth and narrative. Bring your cameras! There will be an interactive photo op.

more

Cristina Lei Rodriguez: Forever

March 5 – April 10, 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., March 4, 6-9 pm

Cristina Lei Rodriguez’s Forever presents a survey of sculptures and installations from 2003 through 2010. Delving into the aesthetics of desire that are part of the consumer products that surround us, her works are primarily sculptural landscapes, sometimes very realistic and other times very abstract.

more

Louise Erhard: Yes, No, and Everything in Between

March 5 – April 10, 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., March 4, 6-9 pm

Louise Erhard’s work explores the dynamics of her interpersonal relationships and the ways her ego and misperceptions have affected those relationships in the past. Her creation of space and place is executed through collage. Beginning with a clean board, Erhard layers mixed media from everyday publications — cut and pasted from posed advertising imagery and the discarded decorative elements from our collective pasts. Her use and manipulation of common imagery of architectural elements is intended to create visual representations of the everyday struggle with one’s ego and the desire to rise above it.

more