Calling all artists who are passionate about Ybor City! The Ybor City Community Art Contest — The heART of Ybor — is looking for visual, digital and performance art by people who love Historic Ybor City.
What is the heART of Ybor?
The Ybor City Community Advisory Committee (CAC) and Ybor City Community Redevelopment Area (CRA) introduced the Heart of Tampa campaign in early 2021. The campaign was created to celebrate Ybor’s strong history, diversity, and collective economic impact to the area. As the Heart of Tampa, Historic Ybor City is the essence of Tampa–from the culture to the new businesses that reach success and thrive off of the diversity.
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The Ybor Community Art Contest is a continuation of the campaign. In order to take part, applicants must present through artistic expression what Ybor means to them. The art also serves to help draw more creatives to live and work in Ybor.
Here are previous winners from last year:
The winners receive media exposure, featured social media posts, gift cards to local shops and are featured on the Ybor City website. Their art is also displayed in the window of the Ybor City CRA office.
How to submit art
The four categories of art you can submit in:
- Visual art — Art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, or crafts.
- Digital art — Art forms made with digital technology or presented on digital technology. This includes images done completely on a computer or hand-drawn images scanned into a computer.
- Performance art — Performing arts are art forms such as dance, music, opera, theatre and musical theatre, magic, illusion, mime, spoken word, puppetry, or circus arts.
- Out-of-the-box art — Have a passion for something that doesn’t fit in one of the other categories? Submit your out-of-the-box artwork with this category.
You can submit your art until Friday, November 4, 2022. You must submit artwork that you created after August 26, 2020. Three winners will be selected in each of the four categories. There will also be two Community Advisory Committee (CAC) Choice Award winners.