Art Program 33
Guidelines
ChotaMota Art Program – 33 (AP-33) will remain open for 16 days – from 31st January to 15th February, 2026. Anybody, from anywhere, in the age group of 15 to 27, can take part!
Opens on: Saturday 31st January, 2026
Closes on: Sunday 15th February, 2026
Results on: Saturday 4th April, 2026
There is no entry fee.
The Foundation does not stake any copyright claim on the items of artwork entered in the art programs.
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)
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.
For other participants in Poster, Cartoon & Caricature and English Creative Writing:
The participants awarded at least twice in the past will be considered only for Dreamspinner and Trailblazer awards.
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.
Specifics
AP-33 includes three Art categories:
English Creative Writing
Cartoon & Caricature
Poster
You may participate in all the three art categories. You may send a maximum of two entries in a particular art category.
CATCHPHRASES for all the three Art categories
English বাংলা
Make it happen তুমি বললেই হবে
She was my storm and my shelter কখনো সে ঝড় কখনো চন্দ্রাতপ মাথার উপর
Big leap backward পিছন দিকে এগিয়ে চলুন
Can the ostrich escape the storm? অন্ধ হলে কি প্রলয় বন্ধ থাকে?
Small words are not that small ছোটো কথা ছোটো নয়
Taking bites but not to swallow খাচ্ছে কিন্তু গিলছে না
You are free to choose any of the listed Catchphrases for Poster, Creative Writing and Cartoon & Caricature. 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.
More about catchphrases ….
For all the three 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.
Poster
Make a statement of your own in form of poster using paint-brush or pencil or pen or your laptop. Pick the Catchphrases and/ or a theme of your choice and get going. You may choose any subject of your choice other than those that relate overtly to partisan politics. Send a jpeg of your creation. You need not send the original artwork now. But, the original art work and the raw files for digital works must be kept ready for submission whenever required.
Cartoon & Caricature
Pick the Catchphrases and/ or a theme of your own choice and give shape to your thoughts!
Submit a jpeg version of your creation. Do not send the original artwork now. But it must be kept ready for submission when required.
For lesser-known subjects, the participants should also send a good photograph of the subject along with the entry proper for reference after converting to jpeg version.
English Creative Writing
Pick the catchphrase of your choice or choose your own theme. Express whatever way you wish to –
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a story of your own or a fairy tale or a folklore you like to retell in your own way, or
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a travelogue of a known or unknown place, or
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a dialogue/ monologue of characters – living or imaginary, or a sheer fantasy.
in prose or poetry and in not more than 500 words.
Just convert to a jpeg format (and NOT pdf ) and submit. Don’t mention your name on the copy you submit.
Accompany your entry with a short (within 50 words) write up about it.
The write up is to contain the following:
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What prompted you to do it
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For Cartoon & Caricature and Poster 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 three categories.
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You may participate in all the three 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.
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Don’t repeat entries if you had already sent them to ChotaMota; the entries will then be disqualified.
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Send only those creations completed within last six months.
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Make sure what you submit is a composition of your own creation, and speaks truly to you.
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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.
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For Cartoon & Caricature and Poster, 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 Cartoon & Caricature and Poster 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.
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For English Creative Writing, send the pdf version only.
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