THE AMERICAN BATIK DESIGN COMPETITION
 
 
 
The American Batik Design Competition is an open competition intended to draw from among American citizens diverse talents in fabric, graphic art and fashion design, to put on display new and original designs that allow the American spirit and values to shine through, while still recognizing uniqueness in the Batik motif. The phrase "American Batik" is a term attempting to illustrate and describe such creative designs and fashion ideas that remain influenced by typical Indonesian Batik motifs, and are bound to incorporate two criteria:
  1. they have to be designed by American designers; and

  2. they exhibit the American spirit and values, drawing from its history and folklore.
The theme of the competition is "The Spirit of America in the Heritage of Batik". This theme is hoped to reflect the articulation of cultural fusion between United States and Indonesia through batik; to bring American values in the tradition of Indonesian Batik. This competition is aimed at strengthening people to people contacts between the United States and Indonesia, to bring closer the two countries' cultural cooperation. It is also one of the Indonesian government's efforts to internationalize batik to the world.

Judges will consist of Batik and textile experts as well as fashion designers and representatives of fashion industries from Indonesia and the U.S. Participants of this competition will be asked to create an 'American batik' digital design only. The transformation from digital designs into Batik Tulis (hand-made batik) will be later done by Indonesian batik artists in Indonesia.

The selection of winners will follow these steps:
  1. Registration and Submission of digital designs.
    Participants need to register online (submission form) and then submit short biography and batik design entry to batik@embassyofindonesia.org with format yourname_batik2011.pdf

  2. July 9 Exhibition .
    Entries submitted before June 25th, will have the opportunity to be exhibited at the Indonesian Festival in Washington DC, July 9th, 2011. One favorite design will be selected from the Exhibition as a finalist.

  3. Final.
    Judgment at the final will be based on the completed Batik Textiles made by Indonesian artists based on finalists' designs, not the digital designs.
 
 
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