SILER CITY, N.C. — Art students at Jordan-Matthews High School are invited to submit work for the 2023 Holiday Art Contest that will select a cover design for this year’s 2023 JMArts Holiday Cards.
Student art is featured every fall on holiday cards sold by JMArts, the Jordan-Matthews Arts Foundation, to raise money for student projects.
With JM holding the North Carolina school premiere of “Frozen: The Broadway Musical,” this year’s JMArts Holiday Art Contest will be part of its “Season of Frozen,” a months-long celebration of the musical and its April 19-21, 2024, statewide premiere in Siler City.
The winning design will capture the inclusive spirit of the broader holiday season — they are holiday cards, after all! — and reflect the spirit of “Frozen” and theme of our premiere: “Love Is An Open Door.”
Art can be in any medium, but must be reproducible on a printed card and work proportionally on the fixed card size of 5x7 inches, either horizontal or vertical.
Important: The art must not include any Disney-licensed characters, images or content. The goal is to achieve the spirit of “Frozen,” not the exact look. JMArts is not licensed to reproduce any images directly associated with the film, production or story.
The winning artist will receive $100 and a free package of holiday cards for the rights to publish their work.
The entry deadline is Wednesday, October 18.
2023 JMArts Holiday Cards will go on sale on November 1 at JMArtsHolidayCards.com, which forwards to an order form. Currently, the 2022 JMArts Holiday Card featuring a watercolor by Lilli Otterbach is still on sale at that site; though, as of July 5, fewer than five packages of last year’s cards were still available.
JMArts Holiday Cards Award recipients are: Otterbach (2022), Vielka Gonzalez (2021), Maggie Thornton (2020) and Natalia Pozos Velasco (2019).
JMArts also offers greeting cards, more generic designs not tied to a particular season, to raise money for student arts activities. The current card features “symbol of strength” a digital work by JMArts Scholar Tiana Brooks, JM’s 2021 Outstanding Graduate in Visual Art.
Greeting cards are available at JMArtsGreetingCards.com, which forwards to an order form, and more about JMArts’ “Season of Frozen” — with many more events to be announced — is available at JMArts.org/frozen.
