Open to regional primary and secondary school students
Young aspiring artists and those more advanced with the paintbrush or pencil all have an opportunity to show case their talents over the Yuletide Season.
CIBC FirstCaribbean has announced its Caribbean Christmas Art competition for primary and secondary school students resident in territories across its 16-member corporate footprint. Students will be able to use traditional watercolors or mixed media to render their interpretation of selected topics.
“This year has been an extraordinary one for our region’s youth as they have been forced to navigate a whole new approach to learning and living as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We believe that artistic expression can be a vent of sorts for some of this year’s challenges,” said Mrs. Debra King, Director of Corporate Communications at CIBC FirstCaribbean.
She said the competition which runs from December 15, 2020 to January 15, 2021 would allow the entrants to explore and express their creative talents along two main themes, “Save Your Money – Why Do We Need to Save” for primary school students and “The Bank of the Future”, for secondary school students.
The primary school entrants will be divided into two categories – 4 -7 and 8 – 11 while those from the secondary schools will be divided into 11 – 14 and 15 – 18 categories. Primary school students can use watercolour, crayon or paint for their entries while secondary students have a choice of digital, mixed media, paint – water colour or acrylic.
Photos of all entries showing clear details of the work of art should be emailed to [email protected] on or before 15th January 2021. The subject line of the email should read – CIBC FirstCaribbean Christmas Art Competition – Name of Country. Entrants should include their full name, age and address in the body of the email.
The winners will be announced in early February and their prizes awarded. Prizes will be given for first, second and third place.
About CIBC FirstCaribbean
CIBC FirstCaribbean is a relationship bank offering a full range of market leading financial services through our Corporate and Investment Banking, Retail and Business Banking and Wealth Management segments. We are located in sixteen (16) countries around the Caribbean, providing the banking services through approximately 2,900 employees in 64 branches and offices. We are one of the largest regionally listed financial services institutions in the English and Dutch speaking Caribbean, with US$12 billion in assets and market capitalization of US$3 billion. We also have a representative office in Hong Kong providing business development, relationship management and fund administration. The face of banking is changing throughout the world and CIBC FirstCaribbean intends to lead
these changes with the expertise, integrity and knowledge gained from banking in the Caribbean since 1836.
CIBC FirstCaribbean is a member of the CIBC Group. CIBC is a leading Canadian-based global financial institution with 11 million personal banking and business clients. Through our three major business units – Retail and Business Banking, Wealth Management and Capital Markets – CIBC offers a full range of products and services through its comprehensive electronic banking network, branches and offices across Canada with offices in the United States and around the world.
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While I am all for encouraging children to pursue an interest in art, I’m not sure that this is the best way of going about it.
The competition, and its specific set themes, smack more of corporate promotion than of a genuine desire to promote artistic talent. More often than not, in this type of competition, the entrants have to sign over reproduction rights in their work for it to be used to publicise the organizer’s promotional endeavours. The awards are the winners’ only recompense.
Furthermore, it may not be the best art that wins but the entry that best advertises the banks services. Genuine artistic talent is secondary and this can result in disillusionment rather than encouragement.