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International Mini Print Cantabria - 2025
Participation fee for the International Mini Print Cantabria for residents in Spain.
The Port Authority of Santander and SM Pro Art Circle call artists from all over the world to participate in the eighth edition of the International Mini Print Cantabria - The Sea & the Lighthouses.
Please see Rules of participation at Particular Conditions.
Rules of participation
SM Pro Art Circle and the Port Authority of Santander call to the:
VIII International Mini Print Cantabria, The Sea and the Lighthouses
About artworks:
The Award is open to all printmaking disciplines, admitting digital printed artwork and monotype as well.
The general theme is The Sea and the Lighthouses, but this does not imply that the artwork must be figurative. All kinds of aesthetic languages are admitted.
The image and the paper must not exceed 20 x 20 cm. (7,8” x 7,8”)
There is no minimum image or paper size.
Artwork/s must be without mat, frame or glass.
You can submit up to 3 artworks paying only one participation fee.
Jury and awarding process:
The jury will be formed by three invited jurors.
The decision of the jury will be unappealable and notified to the winner artists by email and published on the website: www.MiniPrintCantabria.es
The jury will meet and assess all the works received physically and will select, among all those artworks, the three main awards (1st, 2nd, 3rd).
Once this choice has been made, a special prize for the artwork of an artist from the Community of Cantabria will be chosen from among the participants who meet the requirement of being born or being residents in Cantabria. This award aims to support the practice of graphic arts among artists from Cantabria.
Finally will be selected the Honorary Awards and the Mentions.
Awards:
The following prizes will be awarded:
1st Prize: € 4000.-
2nd Prize: € 1500.-
3rd Prize: € 500.-
Mar Cantábrico Award: € 500.- This prize will be awarded to a work by an artist from Cantabria. The artist born and / or current resident in the territory of Cantabria will be recognized as such.
The awarded artworks will become part of the Heritage of the Art Collection of the Port Authority of Santander, maintaining them in deposit for their conservation and exhibition in the Faro Cabo Mayor Art Center.
The prizes will be transferred to the artists to a bank account that they indicate in a timely manner.
The jury will also grant Honorary Awards and Mentions.
Dates:
We establish the following calendar:
• Online registration and sending the pieces by mail: by July 31, 2025
The postage stamp must prove that they were sent by July 31, 2025
• Selection of artworks: The total space available is for 600 works if we receive up to this quantity, all the pieces received, in accordance to “About Artworks”, will be exhibited. If we receive more than 600 pieces then there will be a previous selection of the pieces to be exhibited.
• Awards: The jury will meet around September 18, 2025.
• Exhibition: From September 2 to December 31, 2025.
Participation fee:
The participation fee is:
• Residents in Spain:
€ 55.- Return, by certified mail, included or,
€ 35.- No Return (donation or destruction)
• Non-residents in Spain:
€ 65.- Return, by certified mail, included or,
€ 45.- No Return (donation or destruction)
Exhibition of the artworks:
The exhibition of the artworks will be held in the rooms of the Faro Cabo Mayor Art Center in Santander, Cantabria, Spain from September 2 to December 31, 2025.
Catalogue:
A digital catalogue will be edited with the pieces selected for the exhibition and awarded artworks. This catalogue will be available, in High Res, for free download on our website.
The data and images will be taken from the registration form.
Return of the artworks:
Artworks from artists who have selected the "I WISH THE RETURN OF THE ARTWORKS" box and who have paid the participation fee without the deduction will be returned by Post Mail (Correos de España).
The shipment will be made after 30 days from the closing date of the exhibition.
The shipping included in the Participation Fee will be made only once.
The artworks that are returned to us because their delivery at the destination has not been possible will not be sent again unless the cost of the new shipment was paid again.
In case we´ll receive the package "returned to the sender", we will notify the participants so they can decide on the destination of their artwork/s.
Artworks that do not respect the conditions previously described in: "About Artworks", will not be able to participate.
Remember that when filling out your participation form you have the possibility of not requiring the return of the artworks, paying a participation fee with the amount of shipping deducted. In this case you must expressly indicate, in the registration form, your will for the treatment to be given to the non-returned artworks.
Participation guide:
Each participating artist, before July 31, 2025 must:
1. Complete the online registration form.
2. Pay the participation fee.
3. Send the artworks by post mail.
In detail:
1. Complete the online registration form
On the website: www.MiniPrintCantabria.es fill in all the required boxes, title of the artwork/s and attach a JPG photo at 300 dpi up to 1 Mega size of each of them.
You can submit up to 3 artworks paying only one participation fee.
You must specify whether or not you want the return of the artworks and in that case, if you wish to: donate the artwork to the Art Collection of the Port Authority of Santander or request the destruction of it.
In order to qualify for the "Mar Cantábrico Award" reserved for artists born and / or currently residing in the autonomous community of Cantabria, you must incorporate a copy of your DNI, NIE or document to prove it in the space reserved for that purpose in the same form.
Only those entries in which the requested means of proof have been sent correctly will be considered valid to qualify for the prize.
Registration form and digital photos will be exclusively for identification of the artworks, registration, design of digital catalogue and to complete the data for the donation or return of the artworks.
The Jury will evaluate only the artworks that have been received physically through mail and that meet all the requirements.
When filling in the form, please use Spanish or English especially when indicating the postal data for the return of the artworks.
In the registration form you must put your name, as it must be stated on the shipping label that we will give you of the returned artworks and as it appears on your identity document and in your bank account to which the prize transfer will be made in the eventual case of being one of the (four) winners of the contest.
If you want to appear with your artistic name in the lists that we publish iny the catalogue and on the website, please let us know this, in an email to miniprint@smproart.com
Put your correct and complete address because it will be the address to which the artworks will be sent in return. For this same reason it is important that you inform us of any change of address that may happen between your submission of the participating artworks and the return of the artworks.
2. Pay the participation fee.
Once the registration form has been sent, you must pay the participation fee at the online store: www.smproartshop.com You can use Paypal or credit card (Visa or Mastercard).
You can also do it through a bank transfer, in this case remember that the costs of international transfers that your bank or the correspondent bank charge, must be at your expense.
If you want to make the payment by bank transfer, send us an email to miniprint@smproart.com requesting the data of our bank to make the payment.
Remember that by paying a participation fee, you can send up to 3 artworks.
3. Ship the artworks by mail.
You must ship the same artworks you have included in the registration form, without waiting for any notification.
The jury will deliberate at the Faro Cabo Mayor Art Center on all artworks received physically by mail. Artworks must be signed on the front or on the back and sent, without frame, glass or mat, as “PRINTED MATTER / IMPRESOS” and indicating "NO COMMERCIAL VALUE / SIN VALOR COMERCIAL", and not declaring any value in the shipment (*) before July 31, 2025 to:
VIII International Mini Print Cantabria
Calle San Ganzo, 15
39360 Tagle / Suances, Cantabria
Spain
The date of the postage stamp will be valid. This must not be later than July 31, 2025.
Out-of-date shipments will not be able to participate in the event.
(*) Note: Due the new regulations for electronic commerce prevailing in Spain by which EVERY shipment that enters Spanish territory must pay the VAT corresponding to the declared value. Therefore, do not forget to mark your package as PRINTED MATTER WITHOUT COMMERCIAL VALUE and declare the value of the shipment 0 (zero) because if you specify a value, even if it is very low, upon arrival in Spain, at Customs, the amount of 21 % (VAT Rate) of your shipment in addition to adding the cost of dispatcher fees. This amount is not covered by the participation fee and, therefore, must be covered by the participant who has put a declared value on the shipment.
The Port Authority of Santander and SM Pro Art Circle reserve the right to reproduce the artworks for cultural, promotional or press releases purposes.
Although all the artworks will be treated with the utmost care, the Organization is not responsible for losses, delays and retentions in Customs, total or partial damages that may be caused, during the exhibition or shipment of them.
The organization has the power to resolve in case of unforeseen events that may arise.
The participation in the Award implies the total acceptance of these bases.
February 2025