Thank you for your interest in participating in the 2023 Bridge Capital Flame Tree Art Competition (the “Competition”). Please review these rules carefully. If you want to submit artwork to the Competition, you must agree to all of these rules. By submitting artwork to the Competition, you will be agreeing unconditionally and irrevocably to everything stated in these rules.
If you have any questions, please contact julie.duenas@bccnmi.com.
The Contest.Any eligible person may submit up to two artworks for judging in the Competition. Apanel of judges will evaluate each artwork and Bridge will determine the winners based on evaluations given by the judges and other criteria. Winners will be announced at the Flame Tree Arts Festival (the “Festival”).
Artwork will be judged based on the level of artistic skill demonstrated by the creator, the uniqueness of the ideas embodied in the artwork, and the overall creativity and originality of the artwork.
Submission.
All artwork must be physically delivered to the Bridge Capital building at 1057 Micro Beach Road, Garapan, on or before April 6, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. Artwork must be submitted together with a completed submission form. Bridge will not accept any artwork if the artwork is not accompanied by a completed submission form. Submissions should be in the form of traditionally accepted artistic materials and techniques, including 2-D art such as painting, drawing, collage, and photography and 3-D art such as sculpture, metal work, carving, modeling, casting, pottery, and glassblowing. Eligibility. The contest is open to any person who has resided continuously in the CNMI for at least one year prior to March 1, 2023. CNMI residents who reside outside the CNMI for school or military reasons may participate. Bridge may require that any person seeking an exemption to the residency requirement provide documents establishing the reason that that person should receive an exemption.
A person whose artwork won any category in the 9th Flame Tree Art Competition (held in 2019) is eligible to submit artwork to the Competition, but may not submit artwork for judging in the same category that the contestant won previously. Employees of Bridge and Bridge’s affiliates and their spouses, parents, stepparents, foster parents, father-in-law, mother-in-law, children, stepchildren, foster children, sonsin-law, daughters-in-law, grandparents, grandchildren, brothers, sisters, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and first cousins are not eligible to participate in the Competition.
