by Anna Gamboa
Bleeding Heart Rum Company Announces Don Papa Art Competition
MANILA-Hosting their first art competition since launching their brand in 2012, Don Papa (a home-grown small-batch rum brand started by the Bleeding Heart Rum Company) is on the lookout for original art reimagining the art on its canister design, which will be featured as its 2016 limited edition distributed nationwide in the Philippines from October to December 2016. At stake for the winning artist: a four-week Artistic Residence in Paris, round-trip tickets, accommodations, allowance, tickets/passes to the top museums in Paris, and two cases of Don Papa Rum(!).
While open to all artists based in the country, the competition emphasizes that they must be a resident Filipino citizen, and represented by an art gallery in the Philippines. (The gallery representing the winning artist also gets round-trip tickets to Paris, pocket money for the trip, and three pop-up bar setups for three major gallery events) Entries should be rendered using two-dimensional flat media, and is only considered valid when the Bleeding Heart Rum Company has acknowledged the completion of the online entry form. Deadline for submission of artworks is on December 31, 2015 (Thursday).
Entries will be displayed in January at the Negros Museum. Ten finalists will be chosen and exhibited during the Art Fair Philippines 2016, which runs from February 17-21, 2016, and the artworks will be put up for auction with the proceeds benefiting a charity. The winner and two runner-ups will be chosen prior to the opening day of the fair. Runners-up will receive cash prizes, a case of Don Papa Rum, and their artwork will be featured in social media, newsletters and possibly any other Don Papa Rum collaterals in the future.
For more information on the competition, please check out: https://www.facebook.com/events/163404170674123/
