Conditions/Criteria for submitting Candidacy to Participate
in the Galilee International Sculpture Symposium
In the year 2004 in the Municipality of Ma'a lot-Tarshiha
A. General
- The Thirteenth Annual "Stone in the Galilee" International Sculpture
Symposium will be held at Maalot-Tarshiha in September-October, 2004
- Duration of sculptures' stay in Maalot-Tarshiha - 24 days.
Estimated date of arrival to Maalot-Tarshiha - September 12, 2004
Estimated date of departure - October 05, 2004 after evening
ceremony or morning of October 06, 2004
Participants shall receive notification of the final dates.
- Hereinafter in this document and its appendices, "the Municipality"
shall mean the Maalot-Tarshiha Municipality and/or Pituach Maalot-Tarshiha
(1989) Co. Ltd. and/or Monfort Lake Center of Tourism and Vacation Ltd.
B. Terms and Conditions for Submission of Application
Sculptures wishing to participate in the Symposium shall submit a formal
application to the Municipality, containing the following information:
- CV - in your CV please include previous participation in symposia,
special exhibitions, etc. as well as date and place of birth, current
address, telephone and fax numbers, spoken language skills and e-mail.
Sculptors from Israel may submit CVs in Hebrew.
Applicants from abroad are requested to submit a CV in English.
- Images of the artist's previous works including notation of current location.
- Sketches (2-3) of the proposed sculpture, in the spirit of this year's theme:
"A Magical Garden".
We encourage sending a small model of each sketch. These models
shall remain the property of the Municipality, whether the sculpture is
selected for participation or not.
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Each sketch must be accompanied by a title of the work and a
short description of the underlying concept of the work.
Sketches lacking the required accompaniments shall not be
discussed by the selection committee.
Application must note the dimensions (height, width and perimeter)
for each proposed sculpture. Height of sculptures shall not be less
than 1.2 meters. Applications shall further note details of materials
to be incorporated with the stone, including type of material and
required quantity, etc.
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Participants shall also design the base for their work and therefore
shall also submit a sketch for their proposed pedestal. Bases shall be
executed by the artists during the Symposium.
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Applicants shall note the country and nationality which he or she is
representing.
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Application Form is herein attached as Appendix A.
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Priority shall be granted to proposals incorporating materials other
than stone, such as metal, wood, glass, etc.
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Applicants should take into consideration that participating sculptures
shall be placed in public parks, children's day care centers and/or other
public spaces and therefore, should be accessible by and safe for children.
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C. Tools and Assistants
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Sculptures shall come equipped with several units of diamond discs
(suitable for V220) including spare parts, suitable for work in hard
granite, a small pneumatic hammer and personal sculpting tools as each
participant sees fit and according to his or her needs.
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The Municipality shall provide connections to electricity, air and water.
Periodically, participating sculptors shall have the use of a crane
to transfer rocks.
The Symposium Administration may, yet is not obligated, to assign
to students from Western Galilee colleges as personal assistant to
selected sculptors.
Participating sculptors are not permitted to be accompanied by their own
personal assistants.
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Each sculptor must sign an undertaking in principle to sculpt only
the sketch that was chosen by the artistic jury.
The undertaking is in RTF format and can be viewed in MS Word.
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D. Selection of Participating Sculptors and Winners
- The Artistic Judging Committee shall select the sketches worthy of
participation and accordingly select the sculptures to participate in the
Thirteenth Annual "Stone in the Galilee" Sculpture Symposium.
Committee decisions are final.
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At the close of the Symposium, a sculpture will be selected as
the grand-prize winner of USD 1000.
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The Artistic Judging Committee retains the right to divide the prize among
two or more sculptors.
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E. Liability and Insurance
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Sculptors undertake to execute a sculpture on the basis of the
submitted sketch selected by the Artistic Judging Committee.
Any sculpture failing to comply with the aforementioned undertaking,
forfeits his or her entitlement to reimbursement of his or her expenses
by the Municipality. The Municipality is entitled to terminate the work
and participation of any sculptor deviating from the aforesaid undertaking.
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The sculptor undertakes to have issued the following insurance policies
at his or her expense, to be in effect concurrently with the effect of
this agreement:
a) Personal health insurance and personal accident insurance for the
participating sculptor;
b) Personal property / equipment insurance.
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Press here for the terms and conditions of the policies.
The undertaking is in RTF format and can be viewed in MS Word.
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F. Ownership of Sculptures
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The sculptures executed by the participating sculptors in the Symposium
shall remain the exclusive property of the Municipality and the Municipality
shall be entitled to transfer said sculptures to any third party, by any
means as it deems fit, temporarily or for perpetuity.
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The Municipality shall ensure that the sculpture are placed in an appropriate
location, either in or outside the city, and shall attach to each sculpture
so installed a sign bearing the name of sculptor.
In the event that a sculpture executed by a sculptor constitutes a safety
hazard, despite its approval by the Artistic Judging Committee, the
Municipality shall have no obligation to place the said sculpture as set
forth in this paragraph.
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G. Reimbursement of Expenses and Lodging
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Lodging and food expenses of the participating sculpture in Maalot
Tarshiha, during the entire Symposium, shall be born by the Municipality,
based on an accommodation program planned by the Municipality.
All expenses beyond the aforementioned, such as extension of stay,
telephone calls, special transportation expenses, etc., shall be
born by the sculptor.
The Municipality shall share a portion of the sculptor's transportation
costs, according to the following schedule:
For a participating sculpture of an Israeli sculptor: USD 1000
For a participating sculpture of a sculpture from abroad: USD 1500
One half of the above amount shall be transferred to each participating
sculpture approximately 10 days after his or her arrival in Maalot
Tarshiha. The balance of the aforementioned amount shall be transferred
at the closure of the Symposium.
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Participation of any assistant and/or spouse and/or partner other than
the participation of the sculptor, is prohibited, even if the
participating sculptor undertakes to bear all the accompanying party's
expenses.
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G. Reimbursement of Expenses and Lodging
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Applications including sketches and all required documents and information,
pursuant to the above terms and conditions, should be sent by mail to the
following address:
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