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The Donnie 2016 Digital Art Contest

This is a heads-up, an advisory. No action need be taken at this time, but Prepare, prepare!

This contest will open for entries Saturday, January 2, 2016 at 12:01 a.m ET.

It will be our sixteenth annual digital art contest. The Donnies are the most prestigious and influential digital art competition on the Web.

Fee is only $45.00 per image (same as last two years). Payment via PayPal.

It is international in scope and open to all digital artists and photographers. Maximum six entries per artist. Still images only. JPG format. Image size 1 - 2 megabytes each. Images are downloaded by via our upload page and posted chronologically to the contest site as received.

It offers eight awards: first, second and third prizes plus five honorable mentions. Winning images are given year-long exposure on the MOCA site.

Contest judge is H. Gay Allen who has studied and lectured on the visual arts widely, and has had a long and distinguished career as a professional photographer, digital artist, lecturer, teacher, curator, and judge. She is based in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). You can view her full profile here:
H. Gay Allen Profile

MOCA will publish a full-color catalog of the show. To browse or order among our 21 published catalogs, click catalogs.

Contest will close for entries Sunday, January 31, 2016, 11:59 p.m. ET.

MOCA is a non-profit educational and charitable organization. It us supported exclusively by contest fees and the contributions of artists, viewers, and friends. Thank you for visiting our site and participating in our activities.

Comments, inquiries, questions? Write:
don@moca.virtual.museum
Don Archer, MOCA director and contest administrator