Matt Roberts Arts is inviting you to send submissions for the Salon Art Prize 2011. Paintings, sculptures, installations and 2-D media (drawings, collages, printmakings etc) are eligible. The Salon Art Prize 2011 is the fifth annual open submission exhibition produced by Matt Roberts Arts, which will take place at Matt Roberts Arts gallery on Vyner Street in East London. The exhibition will take place from the 7th – 29th October, 2011. To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Salon Art Prize, Matt Roberts Arts will be offering a separate prize of £1000 for each of the four categories.

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Cascadia Green Building Council, in partnership with the Aleutian Housing Authority, invites the world’s most talented and daring architects and engineers to design an affordable, single-family residence in one of the world’s most challenging environments: Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. Unshackle your creativity and your applied skills to embrace the challenge of creating an Aleutian house capable of meeting the Living Building Challenge. This is not simply a conceptual competition. An existing house is scheduled for demolition, and a new home will be built on its footprint. The best design will be constructed and awarded a huge grand prize of $35,000 in cash!

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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces another monthly juried competition. This time the theme is “Abstracts”. 2D artists (including Photography & excluding Video) are called upon to make online submissions for inclusion into the Gallery’s July 2011 online group exhibition. Light Space & Time encourages entries from all 2D artists regardless of where they reside and regardless of their experience or education in the art field. For those of you who don’t already know, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery conducts monthly art competitions and monthly art exhibitions for new and emerging artists.

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The premier custom Portal and Portal 2 map community, ThinkingWithPortals.com, is proud to present the 2011 Summer Mapping Initiative! This is a Portal 2 mapping contest! ThinkingWithPortals.com is looking for clever and fun test chambers consistent with the themes in Portal 2 (which means no custom assets!). The top two winning maps will receive the grand prize of the Ultimate Portal 2 Gift Pack, as well as having their maps spotlighted on the official Portal 2 website.

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SHOTS Magazine is calling for photography entries for its 113 issue, scheduled for Autumn 2011. SHOTS Magazine is a reader-supported, quarterly journal of fine art photography. An established independent photography journal in its 25th year of publication, SHOTS Magazine reaches an international audience of photographers, collectors, galleries, museums, educators and other fine art photography enthusiasts. Don’t miss this chance to have your work seen! As usual with all SHOTS’ calls for work, this call is also open to all photographers internationally.

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For the first time ever, Guylian invites consumers, chocolate lovers and fans to create a new look and feel for the packaging of their hero product, Guylian Sea Shells. Guylian is challenging professional & amateur designers and Guylian fans to create innovative designs from a consumer perspective. Develop an innovative and creative design for the packaging of the Guylian Sea Shells gift box and ask your friends to vote for your design! Will you be the “topdesigner” of Guylian’s new Sea Shells gift box? Take a chance and you could win $5.000, design software or an iPad.

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The Snowden Photo Competition 2011 is open for entries from amateur photographers. In this competition the photographs that best reflect the competition title “Celebrating the mining industry” are awarded. For the past 5 years, the Snowden Photo Competition has grown to a record over 1,000 submissions received last year. 2011 promises to follow this trend with increased interest last year from not only the photographers, but from the media and industry publications too. Don’t miss out on your chance to be part of this increasingly popular event. $20,000 AUD await the photographers of the best entries.

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Verge Magazine is inviting you to take part in their 2011 Photo Challenge by submitting your best travel photographs. Picturing our Planet is a challenge for travel photographers, their fun times, their hard times, their once-in-a-lifetimes. Show a snippet of your life-changing journey, show the people, places and experiences that are making a difference to you. Help everyone see the world differently. Picturing our Planet Challenge is open for photos of people, places, project and issues. Lots of interesting prizes await the winners. Short-listed photographers will receive Verge Magazine subscriptions.

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Art Moves Festival is organizing a new billboard art competition. The purpose of this competition is to propagate and popularize billboard art and to encourage artists to create art engaged in the reality. All artists interested in billboard art are invited to take part. The competition is particularly addressed to young artists, who are usually most eager to face new themes and untypical ways of art presentation. The theme for the Billboard Art Competition Art Moves 2011 is “Reality or fiction? Let’s pretend it’s not there”. The 10 most interesting works will be displayed on billboards in the city space in Torun, Poland and one contestant will receive a monetary prize of about $3.770.

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Bosses are the biggest, baddest, and strongest enemies in any video game. They control hordes of monsters, rule the land, and they usually take a lot of skill to defeat. deviantART is challenging you to create a new colossus (a boss) for the new massively multiplayer online role-playing game, RIFT. RIFT is a dynamic massively multiplayer online role-playing game where 8 primal forces battle for control in an ever-changing landscape. Choose one of the six planar themes: earth, air, fire, water, life, or death and create concept art of a colossus (a boss) using one of these themes. Residents of any country are eligible to enter.

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