Submissions Open September 1-21st
Calling All Fairfax Artists…
What Art Means to Me:
CMF’s First Local Artist T-Shirt Design Contest
Submit your original t-shirt design. Top 5 get produced, sold, and worn across the community. The winner gets a permanent spot in our shop.
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Who We Are
Community Makers Foundation is launching its first Local Artist T-Shirt Design Contest, and we want to see what Fairfax-area artists can do!
This year’s theme is What Art Means to Me: a t-shirt design that captures what art means to you personally, why you make it, what it’s given you. Submit your original design responding to that theme between September 1 and September 21. Our board will review every entry and narrow the field to a shortlist of standout designs. From there, the community votes to pick the top 5, and those 5 designs get produced as real, physical shirts and sold through our merch store for a limited time.
How it Works
Entries open: September 1
Entries close: September 21
Board shortlist review: September 22-28 Public vote (shortlist to top 5): September 29-October 12
Top 5 designs go live in our store: by October 20
Voting/sales window: October 20-November 19
Winner (most shirts sold) announced live at CMF’s Birthday Party Fundraiser: Weekend of November 20th
The Prize
Whichever of the 5 finalist shirts sells the most physical units during the sales window wins. The winning artist receives:
- A paid guest artist spot at a future Community Maker Workshop session, in a medium of their choice
- Their shirt added permanently to CMF’s merch store, listed under their name
- A feature on CMF’s social media and website as a spotlighted local artist
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Who Can Enter
Open to artists ages 18 and up who live, work, or attend school in Fairfax County or the greater Northern Virginia area. One entry per artist. No entry fee.
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Ownership
You keep full ownership and copyright of your design, always. Entering gives Community Makers Foundation a limited license to print and sell your design during the contest’s sales window (October 20-November 19). If your design wins, that license continues on as part of the prize.
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What to Submit
A print-ready design file, your name, your contact info, artist bio, social links, description of your design, short statement on how it fits this years theme, and a signed certification of authenticity.
Share Your Art & Make A Difference
Every shirt sold does more than put a great design on someone’s back, it fuels the work we do all year long.
Keeps Our Monthly Community Maker Nights free for all
Replenishes art supplies & tools for our programs
Helps launch new programs for our community
Keeps items out of the landfill & given a second life
[email protected] www.communitymakersfoundation.org