Annual Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival Artwork Contest

We are looking for an image that represents the Hiawatha Experience and is colorful and graphically appealing. Image should relate to Hiawatha, music, dance and/or the surroundings, and should reflect a family oriented, traditional music event.  Please see our Festival Poster and T-Shirt Art Archive page for past winning artwork.

We are looking for an image that will work well printed on a poster, silkscreened on a T-shirt, and that can be simplified to a line drawing for use printed on a mug.

All artwork must be original - this means absolutely no clip art, or elements that look like clip art! The selection committee encourages and will give special consideration to workable hand drawn artwork.

A maximum of four colors may be used in the design, this Includes Black and White.

Lettering must be correct, and easy to read.

Pencil drawings and blended or gradient colors do not reproduce well. Line drawing with solid or drop in color is best. Fine line detail is often lost or will not show/reproduce well for our purposes.

Regarding Electronic Submissions - You may create your entry electronically and submit it to us electronically, but you must also send a physical copy. We will only consider entries that comply with this requirement.

Please understand that some of the vintage publicity artwork was created using techniques that we can no longer accept. Please be sure your design follows the guidelines above. Thank you!

All submitted entries, images and artwork become exclusive property of the Hiawatha Music Non-Profit Corporation.

All entries are recorded and numbered by someone not involved in the selection. The Hiawatha Festival Committee and Music Co-op Board of Directors do not see the entrant’s name until after the final selection is made.

Hiawatha reserves the right to reject any and all entries; to reconsider entries from previous years; and to request reasonable minor design modifications from the proposed winner.

The winner must agree to and sign a contract should their artwork be selected.  The contract will be available on this page shortly.

Please contact the Hiawatha office if you have questions. 906-226-8575, 11-3 pm, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, or email us at hiawathamc@gmail.com.   

Please send your artwork to:

Hiawatha Music Co-op
1015 N. Third St
Marquette, MI 49855

OR bring it to: 

Hiawatha Music Co-op
1015 N. Third St ( Village Shopping Center)
Marquette 

If you deliver your submission outside of business hours, please leave your submission in our foyer, which is always open.  Then, please email us to indicate you have left a submission.