Deadline for Applications to the Art Objects Contest for the Contemporary Arts Park at the Children’s Hospital of the Future Prolonged till February 20

The Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund announces that the deadline for applications to the first stage of the Art Objects Contest for the Contemporary Arts Park at the Children’s Hospital of the Future  is prolonged till February 20, 2008.

Recall that the multilevel contest of designs for a contemporary arts park to be laid out at the All-Ukrainian Center to Protect Mothers’ and Children’s Health, Children’s Hospital of the Future, grounds was announced September 13, 2007. Artists, sculptors, designers, architects, or students of the respective colleges are invited to take part in the contest along with artists’ unions and associations. The contest projects will be selected by an Expert Commission in three stages. The organizers reserve the right to appoint the commission members.

The first stage requires submitting projects in the form of ideas, without mandatory physical models. The goal of this stage is finding creative persons possessing free and original thinking. Thus, no technical conditions or limitations are set up at this stage.

The second stage applicants submit projects with detailed description and illustrative material, plus estimates.

At the third stage the participants will defend the final version of their project before a competent audience. Basing on the results of the discussion, the Expert Committee will select a certain number of projects to receive financial aid for their execution in the Children’s Hospital of the Future grounds.