2025 Taos Is Art Spring Banner Competition

The Town of Taos and Taos Arts Council are seeking images of Taos County artists' work for a lamp post banner campaign to highlight Taos as an arts destination, celebrate the community's diversity, and beautify the Historic District. Banners will be displayed from approximately late spring through early fall.

Entrants must be artists at least 18 years of age, currently living and working in Taos County. Work must have been produced within the last 5 years and cannot be a duplicate of a winning entry from a prior "Taos is Art" banner competition. Each individual artist or their representative may enter one piece with one image. Groups may enter one collectively created piece under one collective name. The competition welcomes diverse artistic disciplines and media that can be photographed and displayed visually on a banner, including painting, pottery, sculpture, printmaking, photography, projection and installation, glass, jewelry, metalwork, fiber art, performing arts, and non-traditional media.

The entry fee is $35, which includes a $33 fee to offset banner project expenses and a $2 addition to fund replacement banners. Submissions must be made through the CaFE website (https://www.callforentry.org). Applicants must submit one lower-resolution JPG image (under 5mb) for the competition. Selected winners will need to submit a second high-resolution image (PSD, TIFF, JPG, or PNG format, at least 200 dpi) for printing. Selections will be made through a blind jury process within approximately 3-5 days after the February 10, 2025 deadline, with winners notified within 1-3 days. A total of 66 banners will be displayed: forty-one 30" x 60" banners along Paseo del Pueblo Sur and Norte, and twenty-five 18" x 30" banners along Kit Carson Road, Bent Street, and within the Historic District. Selected artists will receive their banner after deinstallation.