BCBF 2013 – Illustrators Exhibition – 3 – 2 – 1- START!

Dear Children’s Book Illustrators,

The Bologna Children’s Book Fair invites you to participate in the next Bologna Illustrators
Exhibition, which will be held from Monday 25th to Thursday 28th March
2013.

The Illustrators Exhibition provides a unique opportunity of
presenting and promoting your own works to the most representative
figures of the children’s publishing sector, thanks to the concurrent
Fair, the world’s most important event in this field.

The publication
of the selected works on the “Annual” catalogue distributed worldwide
as well as the travelling itinerary of the Exhibition to several
Japanese art museums (in co-operation with IBBY) increase the visibility
of all participating artists.Complete contest rules and entry forms are available online >> click!

Entries close on 1st October, 2012.

Judging will be done by an international panel of art school teachers, museum curators and children’s book publishers.

Besides,
all young selected illustrators (under the age of 35) will take part
in the Bologna Children’s Book Fair – SM Foundation International Award
for Illustration. This annual award, founded in 2009, aims to promote
and support new talents in the world of illustration and consists in the
amount of 30,000 dollars. Full information is available at the
following page >> click!

New this year, fabbricadelleFavole and the Macerata Academy of Fine
Arts, active in the field of higher education and the promotion of
children’s books, in collaboration with Bologna Children’s Book Fair,
have joined forces to create the Grant Award- ARS IN FABULA. The
first edition of the annual ARS IN FABULA grant award is aimed at young
illustrators under 30 years of age, already selected for the 2012
Illustrators Exhibition, but who have not yet published their first
book. Full information is available at >> click!