Call for Artists!

The National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health of agricultural worker families in the United States and Puerto Rico. Each year, NCFH commissions an artist to depict an image relevant to the life-style of migrant and seasonal agricultural workers to support its Migrant Health Scholarship Award program. Proceeds from the sale of fine art prints and posters are used to award scholarships to individuals with the potential to positively affect agricultural workers.

 The Migrant Health Scholarship Award program was established in 1984 and offers approximately six to seven $1000 scholarship to migrant health center staff and current or former agricultural workers to help them with their educational goals.

The National Farmworker Health Conference will be held in Portland, OR in May 2016 where the artwork will be unveiled. We invite you to consider this wonderful opportunity to showcase your work and be apart of a program which helps others to achieve success. If you are interested in being considered as the 2016 artist, please submit the following to [email protected]
by January 18, 2016.
• a direct link to your website or samples of your work
​• a sketch of your idea along with a description  

The artist chosen must complete the artwork no later than March 4, 2016.

A $1000 cash prize will be awarded to the selected artist upon completion of the artwork, as well as 5 fine art artist proofs and 10 posters of the image. In addition to the creation of the original piece of art, the artist agrees to attend the conference for the unveiling of the artwork, and to participate in poster and print signing.
 
We invite you to visit our website at www.ncfh.org to learn more about the Migrant Health Scholarship and view previous years’ artwork. Please consider being a part of this great program and have an opportunity to be recognized on a national basis.
 
If you have any questions, please contact Janie Favre at 512-312-5460 or at  [email protected].