1st International Watercolor Festival
Rivers of Color

Theme: Free, all themes are welcome

Participating: artists of all nationalities over 18 years old.

Size: 56 x 38 cm in horizontal or vertical format.

Maximum number of works: participants may submit a maximum of 3 works of their authorship.

Medium: 95% transparent watercolor on paper.

Other characteristics:

Collage, pastel, Indian ink, gouache, stylographs, and other media will not be accepted.  Digital images or any form of digital editing, reproduction, or printing will not be accepted, either.

The work must be original, made in the years 2022-2023 and should not have been previously exhibited in any IWS exhibition.

Works made in class, copies or works similar to those of other artists or based on public sources or references not attributed to the author will not be accepted.

Registration deadline: August 1.

The individual registration of each participating work must be made by filling out the form at the following link: https://endorphine-art.com/exposicion.

Image of the work: in the registry only one image per work will be accepted which must be perfectly cropped without including passepartout (mat) or frame. 

Image format: 3 to 5 MB, 300 dpi resolution with a minimum of 1500 pixels on its longest side.  

File name: “Country Author_Title_Measures_Yearofproduction.jpg”

Participation fee: 

The general participation fee will be $1,300 Mexican pesos or US$70 per work.  

The fee for current and former students of IWS Irina Endorphine.Art School will be $1,100 Mexican pesos or US$60 per work.

Fees will only be paid for works selected by the jury for exhibition.

Sale of the works: The exhibited works may be sold at the price indicated by the artist during their registration. If this field is left blank, it will be assumed that they are not for sale.

For each work sold during the exhibition, the Organizing Committee will retain 30% of the price indicated in the registration form. The sale amount received will be sent to the artist discounting the commission retained by the Organizing Committee. 

Copyright: The Organizing Committee reserves the right to exhibit and record video of the participating works for promotional purposes only.

Reception and return of works: The selected works must be delivered or sent to the physical address indicated in the selection notification. If the artist prefers to send his work already framed, he must inform the Organizing Committee.  Deadline for receipt of selected works in physical (framed): September 22.  

Once the exhibition is over, the works will be returned, directly to the gallery or sent to the address recorded in the registry.

Each participating artist will assume the shipping and return costs of their work (s).

Printing of works: The Organizing Committee has considered the printing of works in high quality EXCLUSIVELY for artists living outside Mexico who wish to do so. The printing will have an additional cost of $450 Mexican pesos (US$25 US dollars) per work. After the event, the prints can also be sent to the artist who must pay the shipping costs.

Virtual exhibition: all the works selected for the physical exhibition (on-site) and winning works of all competitions will be published free of charge in the virtual version of the Festival (website) open to the public.

Discounts:

• Current and former students of IWS Irina Endorphine.Art School will have a discount of $200 Mexican pesos (US$10 USD) on the general participation fee as indicated above.
• The selected works that are sent already framed, wil be validated by the Organizing Committee, and if the frame is accepted, they will have a discount per work of $ 300 Mexican pesos (US $ 15 US dollars).
• There will be no discounts on participation fees for contests.