Submission Category Information

Architecture - The applied art of building design. 

Calligraphy - The fine art of stylized writing which verges on a form of drawing requiring the correct formation of characters, the ordering of the various parts, and general harmony of proportions. 

Ceramics -  Works made from clay bodies and fired in a kiln to obtain the finished form.  

Digital - All computer-generated forms of fine or applied art, including computer-controlled types.

Drawing - A linear realization of visual objects, concepts, emotions, and fantasies, including symbols and even abstract forms. Includes cartoons, caricature, comic strips and animation, as well as line drawings and sketching with pencil or charcoal, and pen and ink. 

Furniture -  Movable object that are a product of design and are intended to support various human activities such as seating, eating, or sleeping.

Glass (Formed) - Items made from glass which are formed in a kiln to obtain the finished form.

Graphic - Art forms involved in printmaking, such as etching and engraving, including drypoint. 

Illustration - A drawing, painting or printed work of art which explains, clarifies, illuminates, visually represents, or merely decorates a written text.

Jewelry - Works made from various materials for the purpose of decorative adornment.

Metalwork - Works fashioned of metals into objects of art, as well as enamel work techniques like cloisonné, plique-a-jour, champlevé, and encrusted enameling. 

Mosaic - Pictorial designs out of glass tesserae or ceramic tile.

Painting -  A  two-dimensional esthetic image created through the arrangement of shapes, lines, colors, tones and textures. Includes acrylics, encaustic painting, fresco painting, gouache, ink and wash, nail art, oils, miniature painting, panel painting, tempera painting,watercolors, and more.

Photography - An esthetic pictorial image captured on film or digitally.

Poster - A general category of printed 2-D artwork which is designed to be affixed to a vertical surface. It is closely linked to printmaking processes, notably lithography and offset litho and strongly influenced by photographic and software techniques.

Printmaking - Items created by pressing an inked block or plate onto another surface, typically paper.

Sculpture - A three-dimensional work created either by carving - in stone, marble, wood, ivory, bone; modelling - from wax or clay, after which it may be cast , or an assemblage of "found objects". Note: Origami paper folding should also be classed as sculpture.

Stained Glass - A work formed with colored glass that has been cut into various shapes to form pictures or patterns.

Tapestry - A work formed by weaving weaving colored threads or embroidering on canvas.