Call for Artists: Statewide Postcard Art Contest and 2022 First Friday Featured Artist Application
2022 Statewide Postcard Art Contest
We welcome thousands of visitors into our shop each year and we want to highlight Alaskan art and artists! Postcards are mailable art and through our contest, we've seen them reach far and wide. This will be our third statewide postcard art contest. (You can read about our first contest and its winners in this KTOO article!)
We are looking for ANY type of artwork that can be printed on postcards. A drawing or a painting you've done, a photograph of a fat bear, a photograph of a 3-dimensional work of art you've done, a photoshopped image of you in a prom dress and xtra tuffs, running with wolves under the northern lights, you do you! Go wild.
The work doesn't have to say Alaska to everybody, but it should say Alaska to you.
Contest winners receive $100 and their work (including name, short bio, and website) will be printed on 1000 postcards to be featured at Kindred Post. (We also give the option to buy postcards at wholesale price for artists' own personal or commercial use!).
Deadline to apply: April 25, 2022
2022 First Friday Featured Artist
We think it's time! With joyful optimism, a love of gathering, and gratitude to public health measures, we invite you to apply to be a 2022 First Friday featured artist at Kindred Post! We are gearing up to bring back in-person events at the store, and we want to host you!
We are especially interested in creative, interactive projects for the public to engage in - anything that invites our neighbors to participate / make / take / play together, etc. Things like this that we've loved in the past are photo booths, BYOC candle pours, flower bars, and DIY block printing, to name a few. We can't wait to hear what YOU might have in mind. To honor the additional labor and imagination involved in such projects, we are offering small stipends ($75 check OR a $100 gift certificate) to support this work. (Pop-up shop artists are eligible and encouraged to apply for a First Friday, but are ineligible for the stipend unless there is an added interactive element to the event).
Please note that filling out this application starts a conversation with us, but unfortunately doesn't guarantee you a First Friday spot.
Deadline to apply: April 25, 2022