V Provi-Art Contest

Prizes

• PROVI-ART Competition Awards:

Painting and Watercolour

• First prize: 1250 €

• Second prize: 750 €

• Third prize: 500 €

• Fourth prize: 250 €

• Fifth prize: 250 €

Photography

• First prize: 1250 €

• Second prize: 750 €

• Myrtha Casanova Award of the Provi-Art Contest for winners of other editions:

• Sole prize: 1250 € 

How to Participate

If you enjoy art and you like to take photographs or express yourself in paint or watercolours, you live in Spain and, in addition, you have a Certificate of Disability, don’t hesitate to submit your work!

• The theme of, and inspiration for, this contest is “Beauty and Nature”.

• You may submit a maximum of 2 works per category, that is a maximum of 4 works in total, 2 in painting and watercolour and 2 in photography.

• The deadline for submitting your works is 31 May 2024.

If you wish to register, you can do so as follows:

• Through this website, following the REGISTRATION tab, where you will find a form and a place to attach your work.

• You may also register through Artistas Divers@s, by sending an email to comunicacion@artistasdiversos.org or calling 667 40 20 71.

• In the Painting and Watercolour category, you must submit your work in JPG format and each side of your work must be between 40 cm and 100 cm long.

• In the Photography category, you must submit your work in very high-quality JPG format, with a minimum file size of 2 MB and a maximum file size of 10 MB and a minimum resolution of 300 dpi, and in paper format it must have a minimum size of 20 x 30 cm and a maximum size of 40 x 50 cm.

Selection of Works and Prizes

• All Participants will receive a certificate of participation.

• A short list of 25 works will be drawn up by all the employees of Provital, the number in each category (Photography, Watercolour and Painting) being proportional to the number of Works submitted.

• A jury will later select the winners of the contest from among the 25 short-listed Works. The jury will be composed of artists, art experts and representatives of Artistas Divers@s, Barberà del Vallès City Council and Provital.

• The winners will be announced on 18 September 2024. The jury’s decision will be final and not subject to appeal. 

• The winners of previous editions can also take part in the Contest and will be exclusively eligible for the Myrtha Casanova Award.

Award Ceremony and Exhibition 

• The short-listed works will be displayed in an exhibition in November 2024, and prizes will be awarded as part of the opening ceremony.

• If your work is among the 25 short-listed, you undertake to courier the original work to PROVITAL within 2 weeks after being informed that your work has been selected. In order to ensure that the works remain safe and arrive in good condition, they must be sent framed with a simple strip of wood. Works protected with glass will not be accepted (methacrylate may be used if necessary). PROVITAL will bear the shipping costs.

• After the end of the exhibition, Provital will return the works to the finalists Participants who did not win a prize. 

• If your work is not short-listed but you would like it to be included in the exhibition, you may send it to Provital, and it will be displayed. All you have to do is collect it after the end of the exhibition and pay the shipping costs.

• As the organiser of the Contest, Provital accepts no liability for any loss or damage that may be suffered by the works. You may insure your works at your own expense if you wish.

Dissemination

• All works entered will be displayed on the Artistas Divers@s Online Platform (www.artistasdiversos.org) for international dissemination, with the artists’ prior consent.

• Provital will prepare a booklet for publication jointly with Artistas Divers@s.

• The winning works will become the property of Provital who will be exclusively entitled to their use and the rights of photographic reproduction and display.

Clarifications

Prizes will be subject to current tax legislation and will therefore be subject to the deductions required by law.

A single Participant may not be awarded more than one prize.

Provital reserves the right to amend these terms and conditions provided that such amendments help carry out the contest and do not substantially affect its nature.

Participation in the competition implies full acceptance of, and agreement with, these terms and conditions.

For any queries, please contact the Contest Secretary’s Office (info@weareprovital.com) or Artistas Divers@s (comunicacion@artistasdiversos.org).