The AAP Annual is open to all bona fide members in the eight categories. Non-members who intend to join must first apply for membership. The regular categories, open to 21 years and over, are painting, sculpture and mixed media. The special categories, exclusively for associate members 16 to 20 years of age, are in photography, printmaking, digital art and black and white drawing. The Leo Benesa Art Criticism Award is open to both groups. It should focus on the artworks entered in the competition.
A participant may join several categories provided only one entry in each category is submitted. All entries must be unsigned, with all necessary details provided in a separate envelope such as a colored photograph of the work, its title, dimensions and suggested price. All works should be the original artistic creation of the participant.
Entries in painting, in oil, acrylic, watercolor, or tempera, as those in mixed media, should measure 30 x 40 inches and must have 35 kilos maximum weight. Entries in sculpture must be three-dimensional in the round, using any material or technique, and should have a maximum height of 4 feet and a maximum weight of 100 kilos.
Photographs must measure 8x10 inches, utilizing studio and/or laboratory techniques. Digitally manipulated images are not allowed.
Prints could be in rubber cut, woodblock, etching, aquatint, mezzotint, or collagraph, measuring 16x20 inches, excluding frame.
Digital art entries must measure 11x17 inches, using scanned imagery and digital painting techniques in various graphics software. All scanned photographs, symbols or artworks from publications, or those downloaded from the Internet, are not allowed.
Black and white drawings must measure 16x24 inches, and done on graphite or paper, pen and ink, charcoal and pastel.
Three winners in the major categories will be awarded first, second and third prizes, who will receive P50,000, P30,000 and P20,000, respectively, plus medals. First prize winners will each receive a specially designed trophy by sculptor Ral Arogante.
The special categories, including the Leo Benesa Art Criticism Award, there will be only one winner, with a P20,000 cash prize, medal and trophy.
Submission date for all art categories is Nov. 8. Entries for art criticism must be turned in by Nov. 15. All winners will be announced in a formal awarding ceremony on Dec. 6 to be held at the GSIS Museo ng Sining, where all entries will be exhibited until Dec. 16.
For more information, call or visit the AAP office at the Kanlungan ng Sining, Rizal Park, with tel. no. 303-0907, or visit the AAP Bulletin at Contreras Galleries at the fourth floor of SM Art Walk, SM Megamall.