Poster Contest Application

We are accepting applications for the Poster Design for the 12th Annual Knox Asian Festival. The winning poster will be on t-shirts and posters all over town!  Each Artist who submits the poster will receive an official T-shirt. (Please include your t-shirts size in the application)

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How to Enter

Beginning March 15th, fill out the form on this page, or send your wholly original artwork (300 dpi PNG file or PDF file of your submission) to [email protected]

  • Entry must include contact information consisting of your name, email address, phone number, & mailing address. Please also include your t-shirt size.
  • The Asian Culture Center of TN will reserve all rights to use winning posters.
  • Winners will need to add sponsor logos to the posters.
  • Submission must be created in its entirety to the entrant and cannot be generated, in whole or in part, by Artificial Intelligence.

View the 2024 winners here.

Contest Dates

Entries Open: March 15, 2025

Entries Close: April 25, 2025

Public Voting Begins: April 28, 2025

Public Voting Ends: April 30, 2025

Winner Announced: May 1, 2025, in Celebration of Asian Pacific Islanders Month!

Prizes

First Place – $500
Second Place – $100
Third Place – $50

THEME

“United in Peace and Love: Welcoming Communities”

CONTEST DESCRIPTION

Celebrate the 12th anniversary of the Knox Asian Festival by designing a vibrant and colorful poster that embodies the spirit of peace, love, and unity. We are looking for artwork that reflects welcoming communities coming together to promote harmony and cultural understanding.

The 2025 Knox Asian Festival will be especially exciting as we welcome Sumo wrestlers from Japan to join our celebration! We encourage artists to creatively incorporate these themes in their designs.

 DESIGN GUIDELINES
  • Incorporate Sumo Wrestlers: Include imagery or symbols representing sumo wrestlers, reflecting their cultural significance and our special guests for the 2025 festival.
  • Peace and Love Symbols: Use elements like doves, lotus flowers, hearts, or traditional Asian motifs to convey messages of peace and love.
  • Community Unity: Depict diverse groups of people gathering and celebrating together, with artistic elements like waves, cherry blossoms, or abstract cultural patterns connecting them.
  • Colorful Imagery: Bright, dynamic colors that reflect joy, diversity, and celebration.
  • include 12th Knox Asian Festival, August 23rd – Sushi + Sumo 6PM -8PM , August 24th Knox Asian Festival 10:30AM – 6:30PM, World Fair Park 
  • Include Logo
AI Reminder: Submission MUST be created in its entirety to the entrant and CANNOT be generated, in whole or in part, by Artificial Intelligence.

Poster Contest Application

Name(Required)
Address(Required)
T-Shirt Size(Required)
Max. file size: 64 MB.
Designer Agreement

By submitting a poster design to Knox Asian Festival, you, the designer, agree that Knox Asian Festival does not assume responsibility for entries. Decisions are final. Knox Asian Festival reserves the right to alter the final design or to reject all submissions. All participants agree, as a condition of entry, that their submission becomes the property of Knox Asian Festival. By submitting an entry, the participant gives Knox Asian Festival permission to use and/or sell the image for its purposes including, but not limited to: posters, slides, brochures, advertisements, program books, schedule books, badges and tickets, postcards, t-shirts.

By submitting a poster design to Knox Asian Festival, you, the designer, give permission to the "Knox Asian Festival" to use the poster submitted: a) to be printed in order to appear in any Knox Asian Festival Exhibitions, b) to be featured in the in the Knox Asian Festival program, c) to be sold in order to raise funds for Knox Asian Festival d) to be printed in a limited edition version, and be sold in order to raise money for the exhibitions cost, e) to be featured in editorial magazines etc. Due credit will be given to the designer.

By submitting a poster design to Knox Asian Festival, you, the designer, confirm that you are the sole creator of the work and that you grant to “Knox Asian Festival Poster Competition” a worldwide, non-exclusive license (i.e. you, the designer, retains the copyright) to publish the work, without charge, in book form in all languages, including licensed editions, foreign language editions and new editions of this book published by Knox Asian Festival. This license shall be for the duration of copyright. You also grant Knox Asian Festival permission to use the work in electronic formats of the book and in associated promotional material in relation to this title only, permission to be featured in editorial magazines or other publications used to promote the Knox Asian Festival or the artist.

By submitting a poster design to Knox Asian Festival, you, the designer, promise that:

  • no claims, litigation or other proceedings have been asserted and/or brought, no claims, litigation or proceedings are pending or threatened relating to the work.;
  • the work is original to the designer;
  • the reproduction of the work will not infringe the rights of others;
  • you agree to pay any costs or damages Knox Asian Festival might incur as a result of my breach of this clause.
The above is accepted and agreed to by submitting a design to Knox Asian Festival.
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