Poster Contest
The Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival (GGAF) sponsors a design competition to select the official GGAF poster each year. The winning artist receives a $1,500 cash award. Creative artists are encouraged to submit their designs. Entries should be appropriate for replication on posters, T-shirts and other GGAF promotional items.
The competition is open to artists 18 years old and older. A separate poster contest for children is administered through local schools. Ask your school’s art teacher for more information.
Each submission must be an original design that has not been previously reproduced.
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AS THE PROCESS FOR SUBMISSIONS HAS CHANGED.
Submission will be a two-step process. For the first step, all designs must be submitted digitally. For step-two, the finalists must submit original artwork.
Step-one submission dates: April 22 to June 15, 2025.
- Please photograph your artwork and upload to the GGAF Poster Dropbox. The access code is GGAF2025.
- Each entry must include the artist’s name, address, email, and telephone number. No more than three designs per artist may be submitted.
- Submissions must be received no later than June 15 to be eligible for preliminary selection. Notification of poster designs selected to move to step-two will be as soon as possible.
Step-two deadline: July 11.
- Selected finalists must mail or deliver their original art for final judging to:
WEAR TV
4990 Mobile Hwy.
Pensacola, FL 32506 - In-person delivery will be accepted during business hours only, M-F, 9am – 4pm.
- Email notification of the winning poster will be in late July.
- The GGAF committee reserves the right to accept or reject any or all work submitted. GGAF, Inc. accepts no liability for damaged or lost art works.
- Entries not selected may be retrieved in person within 30 days or mailed back to the artist provided the artist encloses the full cost of returned postage.
Submissions should be thematically related to the arts festival. The selected design will be reproduced on posters, T-shirts and other GGAF promotional items that are a major source of support for the festival. As such, judging criteria will include viability of sales potential. Artwork fitting standard frame sizes such as 14” x 24” or 24” x 36” is preferred.
The “Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival” name, place and date are not required in the image but will be added, please allow space for inclusion.
GGAF, Inc. will reproduce the winning poster for sale during the festival. Only a limited number of signed copies of the poster are available for sale each year. The artist will be required to sign each poster prior to the festival.
Festival posters have become a regional collector’s item.
- The winning entry becomes the property of GGAF, Inc., who will have the rights to unlimited reproduction and use of the image or parts of the image for art festival materials and products for sale in perpetuity.
- Winning the poster contest does not entitle the winner to a booth in the juried fine art show.
- Submit questions here by selecting Poster Design Contest.