ChotaMota Art Program – 34 (AP-34) will remain open for 16 days – from 6th to 21st June, 2026. Anybody, from anywhere, in the age group of 15 to 27, can take part!

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Opens on:     Saturday 6th June, 2026 

Closes on:     Sunday 21st June, 2026

Results on:     Sunday 2nd August, 2026 

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There is no entry fee.

The Foundation does not stake any copyright claim on the items of artwork entered in the art programs.

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Chotamota Foundation nurtures “Creativity” in the first place. Hence, Artificial Intelligence (AI) assisted artworks are not

welcome in our art programs. We reserve the right to cross check the submitted artworks for use of AI. In case of non-compliance, the concerned participants will be disqualified from participation in our future art programs.​​

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​Awards

Select entries to the art program shall be accorded financial awards and will be put on display on this website. 

Award category                                                   Amount (Rs.)

Trailblazer                                                                  7000

Dreamspinner                                                           5000

Mastercrafter                                                            3000

Budding Weaver                                                       1000

(only for age-group 15-17 yrs. and first timers)   

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Only one award will be conferred to a participant for the best among the jury-recommended art works submitted in an art category.

 

For the FIRST-TIMERS:

A first-time participant in an art category may get a Budding Weaver award, if none of his / her entries qualifies for a higher award  and one of them meets the minimum standard set for an award.

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For other participants in Painting and Graphic Story: 

The participants awarded at least twice in the past will be considered only for Dreamspinner and Trailblazer awards.

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​CMF art programs are NOT competitions. The entries are therefore not ranked as first, second, etc. Instead, a three member jury is appointed to evaluate each art work independently on its own merit. Based on the jury’s evaluation, each of the select entries is graded in one of the above four award-categories.

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Specifics

​AP-34 includes two Art categories:

   Painting

   Graphic stories

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You may participate in all the three art categories. You may send a maximum of two entries in a particular art category.

 

​​​​CATCHPHRASES for Painting

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               English                                                                                                        বাংলা                                     

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        There is no medicine to cure hatred                                                            ঘৃণার কোনো দাওয়াই নেই    

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       Cocooned in words you had been, until I brought you out                          শব্দের ভিতরে ছিলে, কিন্তু আমি বাহিরে এনেছি          

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       Sky finds a mirror when the courtyard goes under water                            উঠোন যখন ডুবে যায়, আকাশ নতুন আয়না পায়                 

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You are free to choose any of the listed Catchphrases for Painting. Catchphrases are not to be interpreted literally. Be as creative as possible in your interpretation and application. Give vent to your ideas freely… and shape your creation taking cue from the catchphrases. 

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More about catchphrases ….

For both Art Categories you may send at most one entry on a theme of your choice. The other entry must be using a Catchphrase. You may as well use two different Catchphrases or the same Catchphrase for the two entries in the same Art category or for different Art categories.

Catchphrases are not topic or theme; they are just to stimulate the thinker in you.

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Painting

Pick the catchphrase of your own choice or use your own theme to add colour to a blank slate…..

Send us a jpeg version of your creation! Do not send the original artwork now.  But it must be kept ready for submission when required.

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Graphic Stories

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​ There is no Catchphrase for Graphic Story.

If you want to tell your story with illustration, let it be in not more than 10 pages of text and graphics.

Or if you wish to narrate your story in Comics, let it be preferably in not more than 10 frames.

You need not send the original artwork now. Only keep a hard copy ready for sending to us when required.

Also, please, note that you only need to send either illustrated story or comics as an entry in this category. 

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 Accompany your entry with a short (within 50 words) write up about it.

 The write up is to contain the following:

1. What prompted you to do it 

2.  For both Painting and Graphic Stories mention technical details of your Artwork: e.g.  medium (oil, acrylic, digital, mixed etc.)  size (not applicable for digital work). 

 

 

 WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU TO DO?

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• Question the commonplace and express your ideas in any of the above two categories.

• You may participate in all the two art categories. You may send maximum two entries for any of the art categories. For an art category, all your entries will stands disqualified if you send more than two entries.

• Don’t repeat entries if you had already sent them to ChotaMota; the entries will then be disqualified.

• Send only those creations completed within last six months.

• Make sure what you submit is a composition of your own creation, and speaks truly to you.

• Feel free to borrow ideas from others and acknowledge, but don’t reproduce others’ work in entirety. You will be disqualified if you are found to do so.

• For both Painting and Graphic Stories, keep the raw file ready so that you may send it if you are asked.

 

HOW CAN YOU SUBMIT YOUR ARTWORK?

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• For Painting and Graphic Story if the entry you would like to submit is originally developed on an electronic medium, please convert it into a JPEG Otherwise, if the original is on a physical medium (like paper and canvas), first scan it or photograph it and then convert the photo or the scanned copy into a JPEG file and send us.

• Be more careful about the text while submitting the Graphic Story so that it is readable. You may increase the font size or anything else of your choice.

 

 

​You may contact here:

The ChotaMota Foundation
3/6/1 S.M Ali Road,
Barrackpore – 700120
West Bengal, India.

Mobile and WhatsApp:   (+91) 98365 68902