ARTS OLYMPIAD

Chandana Art Foundation International invites Indian children to participate in the 6^th International Arts Olympiad. The world’s largest and most prestigious arts initiative organized by “International Child Art Foundation (ICAF) – Washington DC (www.icaf.org)” every four year once for 8 to 12 year - old children, the Arts Olympiad begins in classrooms like your own and leads to national and international educational events where children learn universal values, acquire peace leadership skills, recognize the powers of their collaborative creativity, initiate lifelong friendships and make a commitment to promote tolerance and co-existence.

The information appended below will help you introduce your students to the Artist-Athlete Idea, the power of a creative mind in a healthy body. We can reap enormous benefits tomorrow. Developing our students’ creative-thinking skills and physical fitness can both advance economic prosperity and reduce incidences of expensive social ills such as obesity, crime, and violence. We request that you kindly submit your school’s entries (one best painting or drawing, and one best digital artwork, if your school has access to computer art programs) as soon as possible, but certainly before December 31, 2020.

A National level exhibition will be held in early 2021 will display the schools’ best artworks so that a panel of judges can select your Arts Olympiad winners. The CAFI will invite winning artists to represent the country as “Official Delegates” to the 6th World Children's Festival taking place in Washington during August 2021,which will include a three-day public event at The National Mall to celebrate "Creativity, Diversity, and Unity." The WCF provides students with a transformative experience critical to their growth as global citizens.

We look forward to your school participating in the 6^th Arts Olympiad and the 6^th World Children’s Festival. We hope your students’ artwork will be part of the International Arts Olympiad Exhibition.

6^th INTERNATIONAL ARTS OLYMPIAD COMPETITION GUIDELINES

Objective : Students will learn

About the Olympic Art Competitions that coincide with the Olympic Games
Connections between fine arts and sports and how studying these topics can help students and educators to work toward world peace
To appreciate fellow students’ personal passion for making artwork or playing sports
How diligently practicing the arts and sports can help them transform themselves into “Artist-Athletes”
To evaluate artwork by student artists from around the world who are expressing their ideas and feelings on the theme “My Favorite Sport”
To visualize their “inner athlete” and depict it in a painting, drawing or digital artwork
Facts about the World Children’s Festival and ways that the Festival develops creativity and empathy among students from around the world

Requirements and Deadline

Age : 8 to 12 years old
Medium : Paintings or drawings
Art work Size : 8” x 24” (45cm x 60cm)
Theme : My Favorite Sport
LastDate : 31st December 2020
Entry : Free

The 6th International Arts Olympiad Schedule

August of 2021 6^th World Children's Festival

OFFICIAL DELEGATES TO THE WORLD CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL

The World Children’s Festival is held every four years as the Olympics of children’s imagination and co-creation. The 6^th World Children’s Festival will take place in the summer of 2021 at The National Mall in Washington, D.C. The world’s leading international children’s educational event, the WCF is free and open to the public. ICAF will not charge or it supports financially the Partner or Partner country delegation any registration fee for participation in the WCF.

The Official Delegations to the World Children’s Festival are Arts Olympiad winners (elementary and middle school students), their parents, school principals and teachers.

Organize an exhibition of the artwork produced under the Arts Olympiad

Form a panel of judges responsible for selecting about 5 school entries
Include a few students as judges to provide an intergenerational perspective on aesthetics
The judges should give equal weight to originality/creativity as technical/aesthetic merit
Complete the School Entry Form (attached as Appendix)

The artworks produced under the Arts Olympiad will be exhibited at local venues, providing an opportunity for communities to celebrate their children's creativity. Distinguished panels of judges, which include school children, will select one best painting and one best digital art piece, thereby designating the young artists as the 6th Arts Olympiad winner.

The CAFI plans to organize the National Arts Olympiad Exhibition in the capital city so that two winners of the Arts Olympiad can be selected, who will represent India at 6^th World Children’s Festival in 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Implementation

Organize an art competition on the theme My Favourite Sport into which the students combine the themes discussed in class. Encourage students to be creative with the topic, particularly those who do not see themselves as athletic. Ask them to look deeper into the sport than just the actions themselves; ask them to look at the message, movement, and values that are related to sports. Students may choose to represent a native sport, or a sport they like to play or watch, or they may invent their own sport, etc… If possible, involve the athletics instructor, with energy and passion, the very act of making art can be an athletic activity!

Independent Art Creation

Students are to create art on the theme, “My Favourite Sport”. They can select any sport to picture themselves as “artist-athletes.” The sport can be a local, traditional or an Olympic sport, or one that they imagine. The students can produce a painting/drawing or digital art.

Traditional 2-D Art

A painting or drawing on paper, canvas, or silk approximately 45x60 cm (18x24 inches) in size

Digital Art

Static visual work created using digital tools or a collage (300+ dpi)

Submission Requirements : Sending School Entry

Entries must be mailed to : Chandana Art Foundation International ®

No. 784, 10^th Main, 2^nd Block, BSK 1^st Stage,

Bengaluru – 560 050, Karnataka, India

E-Mail : chandanaartfoundation@gmail.com

Mobile : 09449994930

Each student should write a short essay on his or her work, describing their feelings and creative objective, and comparing their work in relation to the artwork of peers. This paper should be clipped to the artwork.

A completed “Artwork Submission Form” enclosed at the end of this plan. (Tape the completed form to the back of the artwork, as well.)

The painting or drawing should be mailed to the CAFI (packaged flat and not rolled up). The finalist digital art can be emailed, or a CD can be mailed along with the painting/drawing. The School Entry Form should be completed for both categories. This form could be taped to the back of the painting/drawing. For digital art, the form can be scanned and emailed to the CAFI at chandanaartfoundation@gmail.com