Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA), Visual Arts Division is proud to collaborate with Ministry of Climate Change (MOCC) and National Ozone Unit (NOU) for Asia Pacific Regional Ozone2Climate Art contest 16th Sept, 2021 – 31st March, 2022.

The participants can submit their work online by filling out the form available on the website: www.ozone2climate.org

Rules and Terms & Conditions for the Art Contest are given below.

ELIGIBILITY:

All person having Pakistan nationality residing in the country, are eligible to participate. Parental consent is required for participants aged under 15 years.

AGE CATEGORIES:

Youth category:  For an individual or group of participants with the age 15 years or younger as of 16 September 2021 (the World Ozone Day). Parental consent is required in this category when submitting application and artwork.

General category:  For an individual or group of participants with the age older than 15 years as of 16 September 2021 (the World Ozone Day) till 30 years.

ARTWORK CATEGORIES:

Photography: including original photographs taken from a camera without heavy digital manipulation (such as adding additional objects or removing any objects from original photo). Slight photo adjustments such as lighting, brightness, contrast, etc. can be used.

Drawing: including traditional hand-drawing/painting or other two-dimensional hand-made art and digital drawing.

Graphic Design: including computer assisted designs and graphic program/applications from computer or mobile phone applications.

THEME:

  1. Achievements, actions, benefits to ozone layer production and climate change attributed to the Vienna Convention, the Montreal Protocol including the Kigali Amendment. https://ozone.unep.org/ozone-and-you
  1. Theme of World Ozone Day2021 – Montreal Protocol – Keeping us, our food and vaccines cool https://ozone.unep.org/ozone-day/montreal-protocol-keeping-us-our-food-and-vaccines-cool

ARTWORK SUBMISSION:

The online contest platform for uploading artwork will be opened from 12:00 PM of   16th September 2021 to 24:00 AM of 31st March 2022 Bangkok time.

A participant is eligible for only one award at the regional level however multiple artworks entries (no more than 6 pieces regardless of art category) are permitted to be uploaded for each participant.

  • The digital image file must be at least 2,000 pixels in dimension and the file cannot be more than 1 megabyte (MB). If your submission is selected as a finalist or winner, the high-resolution images for printing and display will be requested from applicants.
  • The artwork must be submitted as digital image files in the following file format(s) JPEG/GIF/PNG.
  • Each artwork must be submitted with the following information: Title, date created, caption explaining the artwork (maximum 100 words in English).
  • Any artwork with images of commercial trademarks and/or company names etc. will be disqualified.

EVALUATIONS:

1.  Youth –  Photography category

2. Youth –  Drawing category

3. Youth –  Graphic Design category

1. General –  Photography category

2. General-  Drawing category

3. General – Graphic Design category

 AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL:

Under each category, only the first-place winner of each category at the national level will be submitted to enter the regional contest.

For those participants who may not have access to online platforms, may contact PNCA to submit their artworks (Email: ozone2climate2021@gmail.com).

 For queries please contact: Ph: 051-9218552.   

AWARD FOR THE NATIONAL CONTEST:

Winner and runner up of each category at the National level will receive the following prizes:

Winner: Rs. 15,000/-

1st Runner up: Rs. 5,000/-

2nd Runner up: Rs. 5,000/-

Each participant will be awarded an E-certificate for participating.