Big Read Dearborn Calls for Entries in Juried Art Contest

DEARBORN, MI – The Big Read Dearborn, a community-wide reading celebration taking place across Dearborn this winter, will accept entries for an open art competition on Tuesday, Feb. 2.

The book selected by the Dearborn Public Library for this year’s event is “Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe.” Art entries should reflect the Poe-inspired theme “Dreaming Dreams No Mortal Ever Dreamed Before.”

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The collection of writing in the book represents the melancholy, brilliance, passionate lyricism, and torment of Edgar Allen Poe. Included in a single volume are his masterpieces of mystery, terror, humor, and adventure, including stories such as “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Black Cat,” and his finest lyric and narrative poetry — “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee.”

These works defined American romanticism and secured Poe as one of the most enduring literary voices of the nineteenth century.

Entries are due on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016. Entry fees are $25 for one entry or $30 for two entries per artist. Dearborn residency is not required to enter this competition.

The juror in this competition is award-winning Dearborn Artist Mohamad Bazzi.

For entry forms and specific details about preparing and delivering entries for submission in the competition, download the entry form online, pick up an entry form at any Dearborn Public Library location or the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center, or call (313) 943-5478.

The art competition is coordinated by the Artists’ Society of Dearborn, one of many local organizations including the Dearborn Community Fund partnering with the Dearborn Public Library to present The Big Read Dearborn.

Many additional activities and events will take place this winter as part of The Big Read Dearborn reading celebration beginning with a free kickoff event from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, at the Henry Ford Centennial Library, 16301 Michigan Ave.

More information, including a complete list of activities, events, partners and sponsors of The Big Read Dearborn, is online at BigReadDearborn.org.

The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.