Ugly Necklace Contest open for voting
June 20, 2008
It’s that time of year again! Land of Odds is ready to have YOU vote on the Ugliest Necklace of 2008. From my mailbox:
6th Annual 2008 The Ugly Necklace Contest
A Jewelry Design Competition With A Twist
Ten Semi-Finalists Selected
- Voting Begins!
May 17, 2008 thru July 18, 2008
10 Jewelry Artists from around the world have been selected from among 37 entries by a panel of four judges from The Center for Beadwork & Jewelry Arts and Land of Odds as Semi-Finalists of 6th Annual 2008 The Ugly Necklace Contest – A Jewelry Design Competition With A Twist. Voting begins On-Line on May 20th, thru July 18th.
Synopsis:
It’s not easy to do Ugly!
So the many jewelry designers from across America and around the Globe who entered our 6th Annual 2008 The Ugly Necklace Contest, found this contest especially challenging. After all, your brain is pre-wired to avoid and reject things which are ugly. Think of snakes and spiders. And even if you start your necklace with a bunch of ugly pieces, once you organize them
into a circle, the very nature of an ordered round form makes it difficult to achieve Ugly. Yes, “Ugly” is easier said than done.
Who will win? We need the public’s help to influence our panel of judges. Does our Sri Lanka entry set an uglier standard about recycling garbage than our Connecticut equestrian does for recycling horse manure? Is the interpretation of Spirituality Overload Gone Awry more successful than those artists who chose Breast Cancer or the Iraq War as “ugly” themes? Does
beginning with ugly pieces achieve better results than starting with misarranged attractive pieces?
Our respected judges narrowed the 37 entries from 17 states in the US as well as Australia, Canada, England and Sri Lanka, to the 10 ugliest ones. They judged these creatively-designed pieces in terms of hideousness, use of materials and clasp, the number of jewelry design principles violated, and the designer’s artistic control. Now it’s time for America and the World
to help finalize the decision about which of these 10 semi-finalists’ Ugly Necklaces to vote for. The winner will truly be an exceptional jewelry designer. The losers….well….this isn’t a contest where you really can “lose”.
Come see these and the other semi-finalists’ pieces at Land of Odds, and vote your choice for the Ugliest Necklace, 2008.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you, however. There is some UGH-LEE stuff there………
And if you missed out on entering this year’s contest, but feel inspired (well, maybe compelled is a better word) to try it yourself, the 2009 contest rules are also posted.
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