Golden Easel 2024-2025

ART HAS NO BORDERS

Topic: We paint what we love, convey emotions and feelings.

Purpose: Presentation of the children's genius phenomenon at traveling exhibitions in Ukraine and the world.

Task: To invite talented children of Ukraine and the world to become ambassadors of peace in the world and express emotions and feelings through painting.

Online phase:

10.08–10.12.24. Participants register on the website artclass.lviv.ua

10.12–30.12.24. Nationwide voting

01–20.01.2025. The jury analyzes the compositions and identifies the laureates.  Lists of laureates are published on the website artclass.lviv.ua.

20.01.25 Laureates meet the organizers in Zoom

20.01–10.05.25. Meetings and webinars for laureates.

In-person phase:

28–30.05.2025. The winners of the Golden Easel International Competition create the composition "Art without borders" in the halls of the National Museum in Lviv named after Andrey Sheptytsky.

01.06.2025. Opening of the exhibition at the A. Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv.

The jury determines the finalists, whose works are selected for traveling exhibitions and who are awarded trips to Art Residencies abroad (Germany and Switzerland).

CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION

  •  In order for a participant's work to be eligible for the Contest, please meet the following requirements:
  •  Repost the link to the official page of our website (artclass.lviv.ua) on your own page or on the page of your organization in social media.
  •  Create an interesting composition with original ideas expressed through emotions and feelings. The work is performed on white or tinted paper or cardboard in A-3 or A-2 format.  Materials and techniques are arbitrary.
  • Take a high-quality photo of the finished work and register it on the website: artclass.lviv.ua
  • Send the original work by courier to: Lviv, Boi-Zhelenskoho Street 10/2 (Olha Dmytrivna Mykhailiuk; c.t. +380678439767).
  • The original work must be signed on the back, but not framed or rolled. The information on the back should be the same as in the registration form.
  • Accompany the original work with a short letter telling about the artist who created the painting and their teacher (with the teacher's data and details). If possible, and with the parents' consent, you can add a photo of the child's portrait, preferably while painting.
  • All participants receive diplomas, which are presented on the website.
  • The winners are awarded with vouchers to the Golden Easel Art Residency in Ukraine.
  • The finalists are awarded with trips to the Golden Easel Art Residences in Germany, Switzerland, etc.

Based on the results of the finalists' creative works, an exhibition will open at the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv on June 1, 2025, and will be held in Germany and Switzerland throughout the year.

An auction of the works is planned.

The proceeds from the sale of children's art are used to support talented children, organizing their personal exhibitions, trips to art residencies, etc.

The works of the participants are not returned, but are the property of the Lviv Children's Gallery.

More information about the International Forum and the Golden Easel Contest is available on the website artclass.lviv.ua and our pages in social media.

Yours sincerely,
team of the Golden Easel Art Forum