{"id":251623,"date":"2023-05-10T16:59:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T14:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/?p=251623"},"modified":"2023-06-06T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:36:06","slug":"international-art-contest-for-minority-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/international-art-contest-for-minority-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"International Art Contest for Minority Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unaids.org\/en\/zero-discrimination-day\">Zero Discrimination Day,<\/a> celebrated globally on 1 March, and mark the start of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/human-rights-75\/monthly-themes\">Racial Justice Month<\/a>, part of OHCHR\u2019s year-long commemoration of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/human-rights-75\">75<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/ohchr_homepage\">UN Human Rights Office<\/a> (OHCHR) joined forces with the non-governmental organizations <a href=\"https:\/\/minorityrights.org\/\">Minority Rights Group International<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freemuse.org\/\">Freemuse<\/a>\u00a0to organize the Second Edition of the International Art Contest for Minority Artists. The 2023 edition invites applications from minority artists working on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/issues\/minorities\/30th-anniversary\/2022-09-22\/GuidanceNoteonIntersectionality.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intersectionality themes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a class=\"is-current-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/minorities\/minority-artists-voice-and-dissidence\">First Edition of the International Art Contest for Minority Artists<\/a>\u00a0was organized in 2022 and focused on the theme of statelessness. The catalogue and summary of winners is available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/issues\/minorities\/2022-11-03\/ONLINE-Exhibition-Catalogue-Minority-Artists.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Second Edition will celebrate\u00a0<strong>minority artists who have exposed, explored, and\/or addressed matters relating to intersectional forms of discrimination through their artwork<\/strong>. It aims to raise awareness on the human rights of individuals and groups belonging to minorities and facing compounded forms of discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>From 1 March 2023 to 15 May 2023, minority artists are invited to submit up to five works of art related to intersectionality and intersectional forms of discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Applications will be assessed by a dedicated\u00a0<a title=\"Minority-Artist-Contest-2023-JUDGES-PANEL.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/issues\/minorities\/artist-contest\/Minority-Artist-Contest-2023-JUDGES-PANEL.pdf\" data-entity-substitution=\"file\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"02447356-9324-4297-8ba5-89aa302626cd\">Judges Panel<\/a>. The Judges Panel will select three minority artists or art projects to receive non-hierarchical awards, as well as one minority artists or art project to receive the Minority Youth Artist Award.<\/p>\n<p>The award-winners will be announced in November 2023 at a hybrid Ceremony organized in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Additional links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Applications should be submitted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freemuse.org\/events\/international-art-contest-for-minority-artists\/\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/ohchr_homepage\">UN Human Rights Office<\/a> (OHCHR)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/minorities\/minority-artists-voice-and-dissidence#_cn\">Concept note<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freemuse.org\/events\/international-art-contest-for-minority-artists\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Competition website and how to apply<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/category\/united-nations-digital-engagement-hub\/united-nations-competitions-and-contests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More UN Competitions and Contests<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the\u00a0Zero Discrimination Day, celebrated globally on 1 March, and mark the start of Racial Justice Month, part of OHCHR\u2019s year-long commemoration of the\u00a075th\u00a0anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the\u00a0UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) joined forces with the non-governmental organizations Minority Rights Group International\u00a0and\u00a0Freemuse\u00a0to organize the Second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":251624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17201],"tags":[20115,253,20580],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}