Contest and announcements

The María José Jove Foundation calls for applications from young artists to participate in the Fifth International Visual Arts Award 2012, aimed at fostering the diffusion of art and the promotion of young artists. It is a biennial competition of national scope, endowed with 27,000 Euros.

The category of video-art of the Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena, in its fourth version, will unite with the 42 Salón Nacional de Artistas, and will receive the show 'Para Verte Mejor Cuerpo Pacífico', as an invited curatorial.

The Museo de Arte Costarricense (MAC) has open calls for the selection process of pieces that will participate in the Second Edition of the Biennal of Visual Arts. “Conjunciones” 2011.

1- Any author of any nationality or origin who wishes to do so may enter the competition, provided the works submitted are consistent with commonly accepted concept of comics and comply with the following requirements: • The works must be original and unpublished in any form.

RAPACES, the Academic Residency for Emerging Central American Artists program , of EspIRA/La ESPORA, aims to build links between plastic artists in the region to develop critical thinking and formal strategies of Central American artistic production.

The International Prize "Arte Laguna” starts the new edition with the goal to promote young contemporary art.