Calling all art students to participate in our first annual program cover design contest! Calling all directors to encourage talented arts students to enter!

Prize information: First place-published and $200 cash prize.

The theme is JAZZ! Design a program cover that embraces the spirit of jazz, which originated in America in the late 19th century and early 20th century in New Orleans.
Jazz music is all about improvisation, collaboration, individualism, and flexible rhythmic
structures. Typical jazz instruments are the saxophone, trumpet, trombone, bass guitar, clarinet, flute, piano, guitar, double bass, tuba, drums, vocals, vibraphone and the banjo.
The design program cover is a celebration of jazz music and should be your interpretation.

Check out the cover design for 2010-

• Artwork can be created in any media
• Limit your color palette to three colors
• Artwork must be in a portrait format
• The program design must be 8 1/8” wide by 10 7/8” high
• Keep your design 1/8” away from the edges of the page
• Your design should have areas where text may be inserted (some spaces should just have color)

All artwork must be the original art of the artist. Copying images from the internet or any copyrighted source will be automatically disqualified form the contest. When using reference material to create your work make sure you alter your images or use copyright free references.

The deadline for the program design contest is November 1st.

• Your artwork should be submitted in a PDF. format as an attachment
• Make sure your PDF. is 300 dpi in cmyk
• Fill out the entry form and send with your artwork
• Save your original artwork
• Winner will have their artwork published as the JEN Conference Program Cover in January 2011 in New Orleans and it will be distributed to several thousand people!
• Winners will be informed and announced via email.

Thanks for sharing your talents with the Jazz Education Network, GOOD LUCK!