COLLAGE CHALLENGE
Original picture
THE FEMININE POWER
BY GEMMA GARCIA
Copyright
COLLAGE CHALLENGE - Inspired by Old Times
We invite you to create your own collage using this historical photograph as your starting point.
Original photograph:
Portrait of Flo Saunders, date unknown
Photographer: Reuben R. Sallows (1855-1937)
Collection: Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol
Object ID: 0385-rrs-ogohc-ph
The original photograph is identified as being in the public domain in Canada.
THE CHALLENGE
Create your own artistic transformation of this historical photograph.
Your collage should retain at least 50% of the original image while transforming it through your own creative vision.
You may cut, layer, paint, draw, digitally manipulate, combine materials, introduce new imagery, or use other creative techniques.
AI-assisted and AI-generated elements are welcome.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Send your finished collage to us by DM or email, together with:
- Your name and surname
- Your country of residence
- Title of your creation
SUBMISSION CONDITIONS FOR A FREE COMMUNITY ART CHALLENGE
By submitting an artwork to the Collage Challenge, you confirm that:
- You are 18 years of age or older.
- You created the submitted artwork yourself and/or have the necessary rights and permissions to use all additional elements incorporated into it.
- Your submission does not infringe the copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other rights of any third party.
- You will not submit material that is unlawful, defamatory, discriminatory, obscene or otherwise inappropriate for this community project.
- You retain ownership of any rights you hold in your original contribution to the artwork.
- You grant Gestalt Art Therapy Centre Australia non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permission to reproduce, display, publish and share your submitted artwork in connection with this challenge and the promotion of Gestalt Art Therapy Centre Australia, including on our social media, website, newsletters and promotional materials.
- This permission includes reasonable technical modifications required for publication, such as resizing, cropping or adapting the artwork to different social-media or publication formats.
- No financial compensation or royalty will be payable for these uses.
- We may publish your name, country of residence and the title of your creation with your artwork unless you specifically ask us not to do so.
Please only submit an artwork if you are comfortable with it potentially being published publicly.
Participants are responsible for ensuring that any additional photographs, artwork, graphics, text, AI-generated material or other content incorporated into their submission can lawfully be used and shared.
Gestalt Art Therapy Centre Australia reserves the right not to publish or to remove a submission if concerns arise regarding copyright, third-party rights, inappropriate content or compliance with these conditions.
This is a free creative community challenge and not a competition. No purchase or payment is required to participate.
gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com
ABOUT THE SOURCE IMAGE
Portrait of Flo Saunders, photographed by Reuben R. Sallows (1855-1937). Collection of the Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol, Object ID: 0385-rrs-ogohc-ph. The source photograph is identified as being in the public domain in Canada.
We look forward to seeing how you transform the past through your own creative vision.
Example collage by Gemma Garcia (Australia)
Title: Feminine Power
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