Visions of Africa for Sculpture Competition and Prize up to $6000 from Nova Resorts

Nova Resorts is presenting the Africa Visions of Sculpture Contest, which aims to support African artists. Sculptures will be distributed at 3 locations in the African resort.

• 1st Prize: 25,000 SAR (6,666 USD).
• 2nd Prize: 15,000 SAR (4,000 USD).
• 3rd Prize: 10,000 SAR (2,666 USD).
• 4 honorable mentions, 500 USD.

Registration Rules:

• Open to all artists of African countries.
• All mentioned clauses of Nofa Sculpture Competition project are under the supervision of Nofa Resort and Nofa Events.
• In order to be eligible for the prize, the artist must provide complete and accurate Information. Registration Entries with incomplete or missing information will not be considered.
• One site selection and one competition entry is permitted per individual.
• Teams may apply to two sites as two separate entries, but the lead artist cannot be same or entry will be disqualified.
• Entries must be original works of the artists especially designed for competition. It cannot be a replication of earlier works and must not contain any elements that are protected by someone else’s copyright or otherwise subject to third-party intellectual property or proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights.

Artist Rules:

• Artist/s can work individually or in teams, with team effort stipulating lead artist including the names of the rest of the team, maximum:5
• Artists are not to add or imply any personal information (name, nationality, gender) in the required, drawings, 750-word description essay, or Bill of quantities.
• Description essay: to briefly describe the artwork, concept, design, and explanation of how the sculpture fits with the objective of the competition
• Individuals or teams to have a structural and/or civil engineer and/or someone experienced with building on the team to review the drawings of the installation for the stability of the structure, ease of construction, and budget compliance.
• Artwork must not contain obscenity, explicit sexual material, nudity, profanity, violence, commercial solicitation or promotion.
• Creative abstract expression is required, realistic imagery/drawing will be disqualified.
• Nofa reserves the right to reproduce images of the work (with full credit to the artists) for Nofa marketing materials.
• The First, Second and Third place winners will be invited to Nofa for the Award Ceremony (Subject to travel permits due to Covid)
• All entries are subject to pre-screening by Nofa to ensure compliance with these Competition Rules. Any entry out of compliance will not be accepted.
• Nofa reserves the right in their sole and absolute discretion to verify whether a potential finalist or potential winning design has fully complied with these Competition Rules before the awarding prize, recognizing a winner, etc.
• Winning artists may be invited to Saudi to supervise construction of installation, transport, food and board will be paid for by Nofa.
• The following individuals are not eligible to participate in the competition:
• Nofa owner’s immediate family members, employees, interns, and officers of the Resorts, or any employees, interns or officers of any agencies, companies, or entities involved in the administration, advertising, judging, creation, development, execution, and/or fulfillment of this competition or their immediate members.
• Organizations are not eligible to compete for the prize, either as an entity or through representation by an individual.

Material Rules:

• Materials selection for the installation is restricted to locally available materials. Pictures and Cost of materials are made available on the competition website.
• Artist/s is free to express the concept in any material or combination of materials as long as the total material cost is within the budget stipulated.
• Artist/s has to calculate the number of materials with unit cost provided and keep to budget stipulated.

Budget Rules:

• Installation Budget: 50 000 SAR (13,330 $) per installation as totaled in the Bill of Quantity form provided with the materials selected.
• The budget does not include labor - costs which is the responsibility of Nofa.

PIN Number Rules:

Once your registration has been accepted for entry into the competition, an automatically generated PIN will be issued to the artist.

• For postal office submissions, the artist should place a PIN on the back of the drawing and bill of quantity as shown in the image below.
• For cloud storage link uploads, the artist should place PIN as the name of the folder/directory as shown in the image below.

Note: no other information should be placed with a PIN number on the drawing or file.

Judging Rules:

• Clear and powerful concept.
• Visually striking as approached via - car, walking or from the stationery lookout.
• Clarity of drawings.
• Ease of construction and soundness of structure.
• Adherence to budget via creativity.
• Use of lighting at night and natural light by day.
• Can provide soft landscape solutions - and recommendations WITH the installation design.
• Art design will be judged on originality and creativity, including structural soundness and budget compliance.
• Judges and participants are not allowed to be in contact, should there be any proof of contact between judge and participant, Nofa has the right to withdraw the contestant’s application.
• Judging committee decisions are final and are appraised as per the following percentages:
• Concept - 30%
• Site Appropriateness - 30%
• Visuals - 10%
• Technical - 30%
• Construction Ease - 10%
• Structural Soundness - 10%
• Keeping to Material Budget Cost - 10%

NOFA RESORTS:

Nofa Resorts offers a variety of sports and recreational activities, including Nofa Equestrian Resort that combines King Abdullah Grandstand and Race Track, a showjumping venue, and a polo field; Nofa Golf Resort that features one of the top golf courses in Saudi Arabia; Radisson Hotel with its African identity; Nofa African Resort that contains a wildlife park and provides safari tours.

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