Lil' Picasso Florida Art Competition is Now for Florida Artists with Autism

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Lil' Picasso Arts Foundation, The Extra-Ordinary Empowerment Network along with The National Autism Association has all teamed together to help kids with Autism. This competition will be held exclusively for All Children with Autism ages

2-6, 7-12, and 13-18.

The selected art & artists from the contest will published in a

book entirely dedicated to and from kids with Autism, with portions of

all the proceeds going to help find a cure.

The Florida Art for Autism competition will begin May 1st, 2011 and run through January 31, 2012.

to enter your Lil' Picasso in to the contest please follow the instructions below and print the page for entry into the contest.

Please be sure to check back soon for all local Florida Lil' Picasso Autism events and functions that The Lil' Picasso Arts Foundation will hold throughout the competition dates within our local community.

Autism Community Events Coming Soon!

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HOW TO ENTER:

Applicants must submit a "Hand Painted" Work of art from a child ages, 2-6 /7-12/13-18.

along with the completed Lil' Picasso submission form and a non

refundable submission and handling fee of $5.00 in the form of a

personal check or money order made payable to The Lil Picasso Arts Foundation (DO NOT SEND CASH) All materials are to mailed to:

The Lil' Picasso Arts Foundation

4763 Pinemore Lane

Lake Worth, Florida 33463

Competition Dates

Submissions will be accepted between May 1st 2011 and January 31st 2012.

All entries must be mailed to The Lil Picasso Arts Foundation within competition guidelines.

All submissions must be mailed and cannot be excepted electronically.

Art Work Entry:

All Work must be created on a standard letter size 8.5"x11" construction

paper of any color. Painted with NON toxic paints. Painted By hand with a

brush or with fingers, both will be excepted. It does not matter what the the theme of the work is, it just has to be painted by hand with NO prefabricated designs or cut outs. Any theme will be excepted, a for example a picture of "lines" or a picture of a "flower" will all be excepted.

We cannot accept works larger then the

standard letter size, all entries over the allotted size will be

rejected. DO NOT send artwork folded or creased as it will be

photographed for publication. Please also provide a small wallet size

picture or snapshot of the child for publication.

Qualifications

All Artworks must be ORIGINAL WORKS done by a child between the ages

specified above and that has been affected by Autism, please no assistance from adults except for the preparation of

the paints for the children. Lil' Picasso Judges are looking for the

true inner artist of the child and the painting should not have any

adult influence. A true Lil' Picasso's artwork will speak for itself!

Selection Process

After an art work is submitted it will be judged by Local Artists within

The Autism Community, (2) Online Voting via www.lilpicasso.org website (3) By The Wyland foundation and The renown conservationist and artist "Wyland".

For selected artwork the artist will notified by phone or email by March 1st 2012.

Submission disclosure

By entering the Lil' Picasso Hand

Painting Art Competition you release all rights to the submitted

artworks. By signing this submission form you hold all partners and affiliates of The Lil' Picasso Arts Foundation non liable. Paying the the handling fee of $5.00 does not

guarantee that the submitted entry will be chosen to be published in Hard Cover book that will be produced as a result of the competition. There are no refunds of this handling fee. Every properly submitted eligible entry will be

considered for this contest with absolute non partisanship. All

Materials will not be returned and become property of The Extra-

Ordinary Empowerment Network, Inc. and The Lil' Picasso arts Foundation.

If chosen all material can also be

used for Television, Internet, and Mobile promotions, by signing this

submission form you the undersigned release The Extra-Ordinary

Empowerment Network and all it's affiliates to the rights of the

submitted works of art further the artists name and likeness can be used

for future promotional use. The Lil' Picasso Arts Foundation is a is a

non-profit [501©(3)] organization. Portions from all proceeds from the

published book title to be determined at a later time, will go to selected groups within the local community to help find a cure for Autism.

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