AFTA announces 2025 SMAF Poster Contest Winner!
Julia Mabile takes the crown again this year!
Julia Mabile is our winner of the 2025 Sugarland Music & Arts Festival Poster Contest! Julia has been a supporter of AFTA since our inception and continues to WOW us with her artwork and her love of the arts. We couldn't be happier to have her talent grace our poster again this year. Look for Julia's poster at the festival and get your signed copy on August 2nd!
Please see all submissions below. We are so grateful to all these artists for sharing their talent and time with us!
Pictured LtoR: Toby Thibodeaux, Nathan Falgoust, Jr., Julia Mabile, Chet Breaux, Joshua Hebert
Thank you to all these fine artists who submitted their work
Julia Mabile (Winner)
Amber LeBlanc
Colleen Dias
Emma Kolb
2025 SMAF Poster Contest Rules and Criteria
- 2025 contest winner will receive a $250.00 stipend.
- Applicants must submit this application with artwork by end-of-day on May 15, 2025. Applications will not be accepted without artwork.
- Artwork can be submitted by emailing a high-resolution image to afta@assumptionarts.org; or by emailing to arrange local pickup.
- If you must mail in your artwork, please mail to: Assumption Foundation for the Arts, PO Box 669, Napoleonville, LA 70390. If mailing, artwork must be postmarked in time for AFTA to receive by May 15, 2025.
- Submitting Original Artwork provides AFTA with more detail into the applicants' skillset and may result in a higher likelihood of scoring higher than only photographs of final pieces.
- The artwork must follow these ratio and size guidelines.
- 18” x 24” (W x H), and the completed piece must have an aspect ratio of 3:4 (W:H)
- Submissions must weigh less than 40 pounds and be transportable.
- The applicant must use inspiration from AFTA, the Sugarland Music & Arts Festival, and from the Assumption Parish arts community and arts culture, and the artwork must embody the spirit of the festival community in a creative or innovative way.
- The art piece must not include anything that is or could be perceived as graphic, offensive, violent, or insensitive.
- All entries must be original creations in both concept and execution. The designers of artwork submitted to this contest guarantee that they are the authors of 100% of all layouts and images submitted and/or personally own all rights to all work submitted. Submissions depicting copyrighted designs, characters, or trademarked names, likenesses, or logos will not be accepted.
- The use of artificial intelligence and the use of “copy and paste” or “drag and drop” image creation through online services are strictly prohibited.
- Original computer-generated graphic designs can be submitted in spot color (PMS) or 4-color process and should be submitted in PNG format in the highest exported resolution possible.
- Applicants under the age of 18 must have parental/guardian consent.
- Contestants are limited to one entry per year.
- All submissions will be evaluated by the AFTA Board of Directors and selected members of the AFTA Advisory Council in the following areas:
- Overall Appearance
- Compositional elements: color, balance, contrast, proportion, symmetry, etc.
- Demonstrates artistic technique and skill
- Thematic Content
- Does applicant use inspiration from AFTA, the Sugarland Music & Arts Festival, and/or from the Assumption Parish arts community and arts culture, and does the artwork embody the spirit of the festival community in a creative or innovative way?
- Creativity
- Does it present the subject or theme in an original or unique way?
- Is the concept or presentation creative or unique?
- Reproduction & Marketability
- In general, would someone want to purchase and display the original piece or a print?
- Does the piece have mass appeal and lend itself to being reproduced on shirts, prints, etc.?
- Overall Appearance
- Applicants must include the information below in their design. The information must be legible and prominent on the poster to be considered:
- 2ndAnnual
- Sugarland Music & Arts Festival
- August 2, 2025
- Assumption Parish, Louisiana
- Presented by Assumption Foundation for the Arts
- AFTA logo is provided to use in your artwork by request to afta@assumptionarts.org
- Terms of Application
- Applicant grants all reproduction and usage rights of all entries to AFTA.
- AFTA may publicly reveal the identity of the winning applicant and display photographs of them and their artwork for promotional purposes.
- The winner may be asked to participate in promotional activities associated with the competition and/or poster unveiling event.
- All original artwork will be treated as a donation to AFTA, and all proceeds from the auction of the original artwork will go toward the foundation.
- AFTA reserves the right to take additional photographs of the original artwork and reproduce the artwork in any form and fashion