Call For Artists - Poster Design Contest

How would you capture the spirit of the Pleasure Island Seafood, Blues & Jazz Festival? The beautiful coastal location, amazing musical performances, delicious local seafood, and an enthusiastic crowd making the most of every minute!

One artist's entry will be chosen for the Official 22nd Annual Pleasure Island Seafood, Blues & Jazz Festival's poster.

The winner will receive:

• $200
• VIP Treatment at this year's Festival
• Recognition for 22nd Annual Pleasure Island Seafood, Blues & Jazz Festival Poster Graphic
• Complimentary booth and opportunity to sign posters at the Festival in the Arts & Wine Garden

Requirements:

• All entrants should submit original representational artwork of the 22nd Annual Pleasure Island Seafood, Blues & Jazz Festival.
• Eligible entries must be a flat work of art, which includes: watercolor, pastels, acrylics or oil. Please do not submit work on stretched, framed canvas or canvas board.
• Flat work must be no smaller than 11" x 14" and no larger than 18" x 24".
• Entries with 2015 Seafood Blues and Jazz Festival lettering is prohibited and such entries will be disqualified.
• Entries should be received on or before Noon, August 17th, 2015.
• Winner will be notified no later than September 8, 2015.
• All other submissions will be returned.

ENTRY FORM

2014 Winning Artwork by Harriet M Forbis

WILMINGTON ARTIST HARRIET M. FORBIS SELECTED 2014 SEAFOOD BLUES & JAZZ FESTIVAL POSTER CONTEST WINNER

“Jazz: The Soul of New Orleans” by Wilmington Artist Harriett M. Forbes, 2014 Seafood Blues & Jazz Festival Poster Winner

This year’s Artist for the 21st Annual Pleasure Island Seafood Blues & Jazz Festival is Wilmington artist Harriet M. Forbis with her New Orleans Jazz-inspired tuba performer with a glow in his rainbow-cloaked eyes.  Harriett states that on a 2010 venture to the Delta City of New Orleans, she came across a unique and sizable performer at Café Du Monde that inspired this wonderfully kaleidescoped rainbow piece entitled “Jazz: The Soul of New Orleans”.  Harriet is a former resident of Winston-Salem, NC and relocated to southeast North Carolina three years ago.

Harriet worked for the State of North Carolina as a teacher of children with disabilities and as a consultant with the North Carolina Assistive Technology Program.  With retirement, Harriet picked up her passion for photography and took additional classes in drawing and painting, specializing in flowers and nature scenes.  This led to more classes and workshops (including lessons from famed artist Carol Ann Herring in her Statesville Studio).  Harriett has moved up into teaching her own classes, recently at the Florence Art School in the North Carolina Mouintains. 

Harriet M. Forbes, 2014 Poster Winner
with Chamber President Gail McCloskey 
with the winning entry and the Festival Poster.

Harriett is a member of the Wilmington Art Association and has been part of their juried Spring Art Show the past three years.  In 2013, her painting “Pink Organdy” was selected as the winner of their poster contest  In addition, her painting “el turista” won Best of Show at the 2014 Southport Summer Regional Art Show which was juried by nationally recognized water colorist Judy Betts.

This year we had a total of nineteen entries which made for a difficult decision for the judges.  All of the entries were very colorful, fanciful and energetic.  The kinetic brightness and colorful presentation of Harriet’s piece set this year’s selection apart from the others.

We are proud to have Harriet Forbis represent the 21st year of this great Festival.  Harriet will be attending the Festival where she will be signing posters, discussing her inspiration for this piece and offering additional selections of her musically-inspired, colorful and unique artwork in the Arts and Wine Garden.  Posters and T-shirts will be on sale soon at the Chamber offices and will be available at the Festival as long as supplies last. Again, Congratulations Harriett!!

For more information please call the Chamber at 910-458-8434 or email at greg@pleasureislandnc.org.

Call for ARTISTS

Pleasure Island Seafood Blues & Jazz Festival ~ October 11-12, 2014

Time is growing short, but there is still time to submit your entry for your vision to convey BLUES & JAZZ, in an outstanding artistic form.  We hold a Poster Design Contest to allow the artist within to express the Seafood Blues & Jazz feel, the BUZZ, the modaz.

Do you have an idea that you need to get down on paper?  Is there a creative doodle that just will not leave your mind?  Take a few minutes and review the Entry Form and requirements, and sign up.  Come October, your creation could adorn the popular event t-shirts as well as the Commemorative Posters that have become a highly collectable.  You will get a Cash stipend as well as a complimentary Booth in the Arts & Wine Garden and the honor (and bragging rights) of being THE ARTIST of the 2014 Seafood Blues & Jazz Festival!

Past winners include great talents such as Barton Hatcher, Ivey Hayes, Robert Knowles and Kelly Hawes. Add yourself to this list and soon your art will adorn many backs and living rooms.

Deadline is September 8, 2014
2014 Poster Design Entry Form

For more information please call the Chamber at 910-458-8434 or email at greg@pleasureislandnc.org.

2013 Entries

Find more things to do in Carolina Beach & Kure Beach on the Pleasure Island Event Calendar.

Call For Artists

Kure Beach, NC – Every Year about this time, we begin the process of finding our Artist that has the vision to convey  B L U E S  &  J A Z Z, in an outstanding artistic form.  We hold a Poster Design Contest to allow the artist within to express the Seafood Blues & Jazz feel, the BUZZ, the modaz.

Do you have an idea that you need to get down on paper?  Is there a creative doodle that just will not leave your mind?  Take a few minutes and review the Entry Form and requirements, and sign up.  Come October, your creation could adorn the popular event t-shirts as well as the Commemorative Posters that have become a highly collectable.  You will get a Cash stipend as well as a complimentary Booth in the Arts & Wine Garden and the honor (and bragging rights) of being THE ARTIST of the 2014 Seafood Blues & Jazz Festival!

Past winners include great talents such as Barton Hatcher, Ivey Hayes, Robert Knowles and Kelly Hawes.  Add yourself to this list and soon your art will adorn many backs and living rooms.   Deadline is September 8, 2014.

For more information please call the Chamber at 910-458-8434 or email at greg@pleasureislandnc.org.

Artist Application

Winner of Seafood Blues and Jazz Festival 2013 Poster Announced

This year's Artist for the 20th Annual Pleasure Island Seafood Blues & Jazz Festival is local artist Robert Scott Knowles from Carolina Beach, North Carolina.

Robert's historic fantasy-inspired Buddy Guy playing the blues on the bayou was inspired by a paragraph in Buddy Guy's Bio:

Though Buddy Guy will forever be associated with Chicago, his story actually begins in Louisiana. One of five children, he was born in 1936 to a sharecropper’s family and raised on a plantation near the small town of Lettsworth, located some 140 miles northwest of New Orleans. Buddy was just seven years old when he fashioned his first makeshift "guitar"—a twostring contraption attached to a piece of wood and secured with his mother’s hairpins. He recounts his early efforts with the instrument, and his ability to keep his faith when his family chased him out of the house for making a racket. "I would go out in the yard, on the levee, to practice," he says. "We didn’t have electric lights or running water—you could hear that guitar a mile away in the country, so I’d have to go a long way away so they didn’t say 'Get out of here with that noise!'"

When we talked to Robert about his inspiration, he said: "After I read that Bio, I had no doubt from the beginning what this artwork was to become. I researched a sharecropper’s life during the 30’s, the dress they wore and the life they led. I took Buddy at 76 and translated his facial features to that of a 7 year old. I was moved by Buddy’s memories so long ago and decided to translate this memory into a piece of art." As you can see, Robert has created a unique expression of a Buddy Guy memory to share with all of the Festival-goers this year.

This year we had a total of eleven entries which made for a difficult decision for the judges. All of the entries were very colorful, fanciful and energetic. The uniqueness and the implied dream-like memory set this year’s selection apart from the others. Robert previously won top honors for the 2008 Seafood Blues & Jazz poster which we commonly call "The Edgar and Johnny Winter Poster."

We are proud to have Robert (once again) represent the 20th year of this great Festival. Robert will be attending the Festival where he will be signing posters, discussing his inspiration for this piece and offering additional selections of his unique artwork in the Arts and Wine Garden. Posters. T-shirts will be on sale soon at the Chamber offices and will be available at the Festival as long as supplies last.

Congratulations Robert!!