Officials Extend Deadline in $3K MI Great Artists Competition

The 2013 MI Great Artist contest, with a total of $3,000 in cash prizes, has extended its deadline for artist submissions until noon on Oct. 9. 

Launched last year by Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson and Park West Gallery president and CEO Albert Scaglione, the contest is designed to identify and support Michigan’s next up-and-coming 2-dimensional artists. 

Art by last year's winner, Deborah Hyde of West Bloomfield, is currently on display at Park West. 

“We’re excited by the art work submitted so far,” Patterson said. “Moving the deadline will enable the MI Great Artist contest to offer a greater variety on which the public can vote.”

Artists 18 years and older who live, work, or go to school in the Economic Growth Alliance (EGA) region–Oakland, Genesee, Lapeer, Livingston, Macomb, Shiawassee, and St. Clair counties–may submit up to five original 2-dimensional works of art at MIGreatArtist.com. Photography and digital artworks are excluded from the competition. 

Public voting will take place at MIGreatArtist.com from Oct. 18-31. The top 20 artists will be posted on the website Nov. 1. Judges will review the top 20 beginning Nov. 4. They will announce the top five on Nov. 15. There will be an exhibition of the five semi-finalists at Park West Gallery in Southfield from Dec. 2-Jan. 3. The winner will be announced Dec. 12.