Juried Art Competition
The Engage Art Contest is a juried competition for original Visual Art 🖼, Music Video 🎵, Film 🎞 and Performing Arts 🎭. The topic is the Spiritual Battle described in Ephesians 6:10-20 and related verses. The current contest runs until May 31, 2020, and is open to people 18 or older who live in North America (🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇲🇽, Central America & the Caribbean) with $100,000US in cash 💵 prizes!
Download/sign-up in our mobile app, which will help you engage Scripture (including our contest topic). Separately register in our contest submission portal where you submit images of your visual art and digital versions of your music video, short film or performing arts video. Use the same email to register in both places.
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