Send your ceramic art to our Twitter or Facebook and you could be selected as the Ceramic Shop's featured artist! One featured artists will have an image of their work placed in our header, a short artist statement with one link to a site relating to their work (etsy shop, portfolio website, etc.) placed in our "About Us" section, and will receive a $25 discount on their next order from The Ceramic Shop!
To enter the contest via Twitter, follow The Ceramic Shop, and tweet including "@theceramicshop","#postmyplate", and a linked image of the work you would like to submit.
To enter the contest via Facebook, "like" The Ceramic Shop, and post to The Ceramic Shop's wall including "Post My Plate", and an attached photo of the work you would like to submit.
Please only one submission per day!
Full Terms:
The Ceramic Shop's Post My Plate contest begins June 23, 2011 and ends July 6, 2011, at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST). By submitting an entry, each contestant agrees to the rules of the contest and states that they are 18 years old or older.
Who may enter:
Ceramic Artists 18 years old or older—except for individuals affiliated with the Ceramic Shop, including employees and their immediate families (children, siblings and spouses) and others living in their households—are eligible. The Ceramic Shop will determine winners’ eligibility.
What to enter:
Photographs of ceramic art work. The work pictured in the photograph must be the work of the entrant, and the entrant must have all rights to the image. Be prepared if selected to provide a high resolution version of the image by e-mail.
The Ceramic Shop reserves the right to disqualify contestants who are unable to submit, upon request, a high-resolution photograph of a sized determined by The Ceramic Shop.
By entering the contest, entrants grant The Ceramic Shop a royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to display, distribute, reproduce and create derivative works of the photographs, in whole or in part, in any media now existing or subsequently developed, for any promotional, publicity, exhibition, and all other standard purposes. Any photograph reproduced will include a artist credit as feasible. The Ceramic Shop will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such uses.
How to enter:
Please submit photographs on-line through our Twitter or Facebook pages. Please submit no more than one entry per day for the duration of the contest.
Twitter Entry:
To enter the contest via Twitter first make sure you are following @TheCeramicShop, then post a tweet mentioning @TheCeramicShop and tagged with #postmyplate, include in this tweet a link to the image you would like to submit. You may submit photographs using any internet photo sharing or hosting service.
Facebook Entry:
To enter the contest via Facebook become a fan of The Ceramic Shop's official facebook page and post onto the page's wall. The post must include the phrase "Post My Plate" and have the image of your work attached using facebook's integrated photo system.
Entry Deadline:
All entries must be received through Twitter or Facebook by 12pm Eastern Time on July 6, 2011.
Judging:
Judging will be conducted by the employees of The Ceramic Shop. The winning entry will be published in an edited form in the header of our website. Decisions of the judges will be final.
The Ceramic Shop will post winner of the contest on Twitter and Facebook by July 8, 2011 and the feature will begin as soon as possible once high resolution images have been received.
Prize:
One featured artist will have their image integrated into our header in place of the current glazed plate image, they will be featured in our "About Us" section with a short artist statement and a single link to a related page, and will receive a $25 credit for use at The Ceramic Shop.
The length of this feature is at the discretion of The Ceramic Shop. The Ceramic Shop reserves the right to remove the image, artist statement and link at any time.
The Ceramic Shop reserves the right to decline a submitted artist statement or featured link.