Congratulations to the 2025 winners:
First Place: "Home on the Range" by Beth Campbell
Second Place: "Zebra" by Brian Trainor
SWAA Art Competition Guidelines for the ZOO Gala 2025
- Entrants must hold a valid SWAA membership for the current year.
- $30 entry fee (e-transfers to swaa1986@gmail.com accepted.)
- Deadline for submissions is 12am CST (midnight) on May 13th 2024.
- Submission can be a new, or older piece (within 2 years) of, a painting or drawing in any medium.
- $100 will be awarded to the 1st place winner (additional perk still being discussed).
- $60 will be awarded to the 2nd place winner.
- $40 will be awarded to the 3rd place winner.
- The 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winner’s prints will be auctioned live at the Zoo Gala on June 7th.
- The images will be judged by judges from SWAA and judges from the Saskatoon Zoo.
- SWAA members are allowed to use the added link to references for this competition if so desired. ( https://photos.app.goo.gl/cx4Z3wUCahCjt9oA7 )
- No desired animal specified this year BUT the animal must be one that is on display at the zoo. You can find the current list of zoo animals at the website below
https://www.saskatoon.ca/parks-recreation-attractions/events-attractions/saskatoon-forestry-farm-park-zoo/zoo-animals
Submissions Guidelines
Send an email with the image attached to swaa1986@gmail.com with the header “Zoo Gala wildlife competition 2025". Please include the following other info, (Phone#, website, Piece’s title, media, original’s dimensions)
A. Subject of the submission must be a current animal in the zoo, see above link for a list of current animals.
B. JPG files only of your 2 dimensional artwork suitable to be reproduced
C. 300 DPI resolution (Please try to keep the file size under 10 MB to ensure proper loading).
D. Do not send images of your artwork which has been framed or contains watermarks. Must be cropped so only the artwork is in the image.
E. SWAA may color correct your images in order to enhance the overall presentation.
F. SWAA may crop your images for formatting purposes for use in their Facebook / Instagram Posts and for other areas of the website if your image is chosen as the winner.
G. The sizing and labeling of your images are very important. Label your image files in the following manner: first and last name, the medium used, size. Here is an Example: JohnBrown_watercolor_8x10 (this is the filename not a label on the image itself).
H. The file name may not include characters such as #, $, &, periods or other similar characters as part of the file, and it is important to follow these instructions about the file name to allow the right storage into the image database.
I.Winner will be required to submit a high resolution file for reproduction.
J. SWAA reserves the right to choose an alternative winner if they deem the quality of the submission’s resolution insufficient to make a quality reproduction.
K. SWAA retains the right to skip any submissions not suitable for reproduction.
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