Botanical Art & Illustration Calendar Entry Form

Entries are due by Monday, July 24, 2023. Questions? Contact Emily Oglesby at eoglesby@unc.edu.

Eligibility

  • This opportunity is open only to current and past participants of the NCBG Certificate in Botanical Art & Illustration.

Artwork Details

  • You may submit up to two original illustrations.
  • Illustrations must be of plants native to the southeastern United States. If you have questions about a plant’s native status, you can look it up on the USDA Plants database.
  • Illustrations must not have been featured in a previous NCBG Botanical Art & Illustration calendar.
  • Works in any two-dimensional media are welcome.

Submission Requirements

  • All submissions must be in electronic form at 300 DPI or higher to ensure a quality image in the final calendar.
  • Illustrations must be submitted as a scanned image of excellent clarity, taken at 100% of size with careful color matching, and no extraneous background noise.
  • Illustrations must be no smaller than 7in by 7in. They do not have to be square, but no side may be smaller than 7in.

Garden staff will select the fourteen works to be featured in the calendar. Artists whose illustrations are selected will be notified no later than August 31, 2023. Their names will be printed with the illustration along with the scientific and common names of the plant. All selected artists will receive a complimentary copy of the 2024 calendar. Proceeds from calendar sales support the conservation efforts of the North Carolina Botanical Garden.

  • Contact Information

  • This opportunity is open just to current and past participants in our certificate program.
  • There is only room for one of these options. If you select website or social media handle, make sure to provide that information in the box above.

  • Submission 1

  • All submissions must be scanned at 300 DPI or higher with no side smaller than 7 inches to ensure a high quality image in the final calendar. NOTE: If you see a red "X" next to the file, that means the upload worked! The X just allows you to remove the file if you change your mind.
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    • Submission 2

      A second submission is optional. All fields below are required if you are submitting another artwork.

    • All submissions must be scanned at 300 DPI or higher with no side smaller than 7 inches to ensure a high quality image in the final calendar.
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      Max. file size: 98 MB.

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