Seed Savers Exchange is finishing up a free resource for gardeners to teach folks how to save and share seeds. Though the text is pretty well set, they are reaching out to friends and followers for the graphics.
To that end, they’re looking for original illustrations – instructional or inspirational – that encourage seed saving, seed sharing and seed sowing. Selected submissions will be featured in a new resource, and artists will be awarded SSE memberships, rare seeds, or other prizes.
Details:
Content: Original illustration (no photographs, please, but diverse styles and media encouraged) instructing or inspiring others to save and share vegetable seeds. (Think halved tomato fruits, onion flowers, bolting lettuce, cabbage flowers, fermenting cucumber pulp, isolation cages, hand-made seed packets, seed swaps, etc.)
Submission: All entries should be sent via email or wetransfer.com to grant@seedsavers.org with the subject SEED ART before July 1, 2014. Submissions must be high quality, RGB color mode, JPEG format, and 72dpi. Digital files must be smaller than 5MB. Artists retain all rights to their works, but allow SSE to use in Saving and Sharing Seeds and also display via social media as part of the contest.
Use: Selected submissions will be featured in Saving and Sharing Seeds, a free resource made available on our website and sent to seed libraries, seed swaps, and gardener gatherings across the country. Saving and Sharing Seeds will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, and will be made available Fall 2014. Estimated distribution is 25,000. All submissions will be displayed online in a gallery at exchange.seedsavers.org, and many will be displayed via social media. Work title and artist name will be included with each image in the book (if selected) and on social media galleries. Selected artists and descriptions of their piece will also appear in the publication as a separate section.
Selection Process: All submissions will be reviewed by Seed Savers Exchange staff and local artists. Art will be selected on the basis of general quality as well as suitability for this publication. Requirements of Selected Artists: SSE staff will notify selected artists before July 31. Artists will be asked to provide some specific written information about their selected illustration(s) for inclusion in the publication. Selected artists will also be required to submit a 9†x 12†RAW file (RGB format, 300dpi) for the work to be published. For a list of selected artists, visit exchange.seedsavers.org/artists after August 1, 2014.
