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All work in which the primary medium is film or digital photography and the character of the finished work is most specifically defined by the use of photography. This category includes photographic images printed on canvas.

Wearable garments and accessories and non-wearable work produced from fibers and fabrics.

Work made from any medium that is used primarily as personal adornment. This includes wearable sculpture.

Functional and non-functional two and three-dimensional work in which the primary medium is glass and the additions of any other mediums are incidental to and not intrinsic to the finished pieces.

All work in which the primary medium is paint of any kind and the character of the finished work is most specifically defined by the use of paint. This category includes work in pastels.

Any finished work that can’t be best described by one of the above categories.

Objects produced by carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round.

Functional and non-functional work in which the primary medium is metal and the additions of any other mediums are incidental to and not intrinsic to the finished pieces.

All traditional crafts, including but not limited to soap-making, chair caning, broom making, tin punching, black-smithing, furniture making, etc. What defines this category is the attention to historical […]

Functional and non-functional work in which the primary medium is clay and additions of any other mediums are incidental to and not intrinsic to the finished pieces.

Functional and non-functional work in which the primary medium is wood and the additions of any other mediums are incidental to and not intrinsic to the finished pieces.

All primarily two-dimensional work that is created through the use of drawing. Please select this category if your work includes low relief.

All work in which the primary medium is produced through the use of digital technology and the character of the finished work is most specifically defined by the use of digital technology.

Primarily two-dimensional work that includes at least two separate and intrinsic mediums. This category includes low relief.

Primarily three-dimensional work that includes at least two separate and intrinsic mediums.

All work in which the primary medium is traditional (lithography, etching, serigraphy, etc.) or digital (computer-generated) printmaking