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Maurício
You can send your works to me by e-mail: mauricio.kanno@gmail.com . It´s no problem if you´d like to publish them here on deviantArt too. 
I had an experience of publishing another book this year with many authors, and it worthed very much, so I think it would be a good idea to repeat the rules. 
I accept any other suggestions! Hello, dear friends! Finally, we have the results of the 2nd Arts for Animal Rights Contest - mauriciokanno.deviantart.com/j… ! A total of 26 people I trust in (about their engagement on animal rights) voted, and you can see below what they preferred!
Before reading it, please, notice that all the arts we received are so beautiful! Some arts received more points because they were preferred over others, not that the others were not good. Maybe some weren´t communicating enough about animal rights, in spite of they are very good arts, for example. Or maybe not the way people liked... Anyway, I loved that we had so many participants! Thank you very much!
(About the voting system: if someone voted an art as 1st place, then it received 3 points; if 2nd place in his/her opinion, it got 2 points; if 3rd place in his/her opinion, received 1 point. Here are the 35 arts among the 63 which received votes, ok?)
I´ll soon contact the winners for sending them their prizes! Just notice that we have 2 arts in 3rd place, so I needed to choose one of them to send one of the prizes, because I don´t have enough resources... But actually they are both in 3rd place!
And you can see photos of the event 4th Party & Arts Exhibit for Animal Rights where I announced the results and showed many of the arts here: www.facebook.com/media/set/?se…
The arts, by points of votes order
18- Why are you supporting this? (Norway) - escapinghumanity.deviantart.co…
13- Dead 1-6 (Brazil - SP) - thaisnav.deviantart.com/art/De…
11.1 – Plate of Bacon and Ribs (USA) - soulsearchergirl.deviantart.co…
11- Meat (Germany) - onlyonemassage.deviantart.com/…
9- Once a King (USA) - eddyfying.deviantart.com/art/O…
8 – Can you hear them? (Brazil - SC/RS) - glaetitia.deviantart.com/art/C…
7- If We Were Endangered (Phillipines) - reliquus.deviantart.com/art/If…
7- Evil Poachers (United Kingdom) - da1976.deviantart.com/art/Evil…
6- There´s no mom anymore…. (Russia) - panda-kiddie.deviantart.com/ar…
6- We were never meant to be your drafts (Romania) - yama-no-mouken.deviantart.com/…
6- Poem As línguas do amor insurgente, by Leonardo Ortegal (Brazil - Brasília) - mauriciokanno.deviantart.com/a…
5- Save the Dolphins (Russia) - greenvoice.deviantart.com/art/…
4- Bloody Portrait (Brazil - SP) - debora-muniz.deviantart.com/ar…
4- Can they (USA) - yeliriley.deviantart.com/art/C…
4- Poem Equality for animais (Transylvania) - dogyjoe.deviantart.com/art/Equ…
4- Poem Mensagem animalista (Brasil - SP) - mauriciokanno.deviantart.com/a…
3- The Ocean on His Shoulders (Norway) - sanguine-sun.deviantart.com/ar…
3- Best friends: Dolphins (USA) - lyssyrae.deviantart.com/art/Be…
3- Dead 6 (Brazil - SP) - thaisnav.deviantart.com/art/De…
3- What did I do to deserve this? (Romania) - yama-no-mouken.deviantart.com/…
3- Poem Her Coat (USA) - huzian.deviantart.com/art/Her-…
2- Foxy (Portugal) - mauriciokanno.deviantart.com/a…
2- In your hands (United Kingdom) - sally5678.deviantart.com/art/I…
2- Must get world off shoulders (Canada) - lisasky-art.deviantart.com/art…
2- Poem Statement of Principles (Brazil - RJ) - bfmuller.deviantart.com/art/St…
1- Sonnet in Honor of the Deceased (Ukraine) - imeribridzhet.deviantart.com/a…
1- One life is gone... into your stomach (Japan) - kohaya7kae-13.deviantart.com/a…
1- Just say no. (Taiwan) - kuroya-ken.deviantart.com/art/…
1- Expo Filhos do Vento 2 by Jadiel Rezende (Brazil) - mauriciokanno.deviantart.com/a…
1- Stop the Seal Hunts (Russia) - greenvoice.deviantart.com/art/…
1- Lions and Tigers and Bears (USA) - drkujo.deviantart.com/art/Lion…
1- Inspired by Mima (Bulgaria) - kgk-92.deviantart.com/art/Insp…
1- Dignity by Love (Germany) - rieke-b.deviantart.com/art/Dig…
1- Roaming the golden fields (Norway) - sanguine-sun.deviantart.com/ar…
1- Poem Animalia (Brazil) - clioft.deviantart.com/art/Anim…
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(And here are all the poems... I asked people to vote in a poem as an extra vote, if they don´t vote in a poem in the 3 normal votes. So in this votation, the poem receives 4 points if gets 1st place in the opinion of someone; 3 points if 2nd place; 2 points if 3rd place; and 1 point if gets the extra vote specific for poems. They won´t receive prizes, this is just a symbolic result to measure the appreciation of the literature by voters.)
11- As línguas do amor insurgente, by Leonardo Ortegal (Brasil - Brasília) - mauriciokanno.deviantart.com/a…
8- Mensagem Animalista (by Rogério Ferreira Gonçalves, from São Paulo, Brazil) - mauriciokanno.deviantart.com/a…
8- Her Coat (by Courtney Bailey (Huzian), USA)
- huzian.deviantart.com/art/Her-…
7- Princípios (Bruno Muller – Brazil/RJ) - bfmuller.deviantart.com/art/Pr…
6- Equality for animais (by Dogyjoe / F. Zsolt – Transylvania) - dogyjoe.deviantart.com/art/Equ…
2- Animalia (Brazil) - clioft.deviantart.com/art/Anim…
2- Animal Pain (Brazil) - vivibl.deviantart.com/art/Dor-…
1- The Fight (USA) - huzian.deviantart.com/art/The-…
1- The Whale´s Chant (Brazil) - bfmuller.deviantart.com/art/Th…
0- Dog, by Huzian (EUA) - huzian.deviantart.com/art/Dog-…
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Congratulations for you and thank you very much!
Arts for Animal Rights Contest 2013!
Your challenge is to create (or offer, if made since 2010) a nice piece of art supporting animal rights, doing your best to show to the world the importance of respecting ALL the animals (you´ll likely focus on just one or some of them, but I mean, please choose an animal that people usually are not respecting). You just can´t offer again the same piece already offered in the last edition of this contest, in 2012.
As last year, every kind of art will be accepted, if it fits on this demand. As I´m in deviantArt, I expect to receive mainly traditional or digital art, but I will gladly accept photography, photomanipulation, literature, or even dance, music or drama (I just suppose that the last ones should be shown on YouTube, for example).
The deadline for submissions is MAY 12th 2013 (NOT ANYMORE MARCH 31st, it was POSTPONED IN MORE ABOUT 1.5 MONTH).
And the winners are expected to be announced in JUNE 2013 (not anymore April 2013).Last year, this contest gladly received 34 entries, from 12 countries: United States (11), Germany (4), United Kingdom (4), Brazil (3), Canada (2), Austria, Croatia, France, India, Norway, Syria and Ukraine. There were: drawings and paintings in traditional art (12) or digital art (7), photographs (10), photomanipulations (4) and also a collage.
The winners last year were "Reification of Life", "Falling Cattle" and "Chicken Sandwich":
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About Animal Rights
The best and simplest definition for me concerning this issue is that an animal cannot be considered a property of any human to trade, consume, kill or exploit. So they can live in freedom and respected by our species.
Just note that while animal welfare is about reduction of suffering or "happier lives" when or before animals are used or killed; animal rights is about non-use of animals at all. You can know more about it in About.com Animal Rights page ( animalrights.about.com/ ) and Abolitionist Approach ( www.abolitionistapproach.com/ ).
Votes, Winners and Exhibition
The entries will be voted by selected members of 4 selected organizations here in Sao Paulo, Brazil: the Group of Studies on Animal Rights (Geda); the Group of Studies on the Abolitionist Theory by Gary Francione (Gefran); the NGO Ethic Vegetarianism, Defense of the Animal Rights and Society (Veddas), and the team who is creating the Abolitionist Brazilian Party. And also other selected activists from other countries. The winners will be chosen this way.
The winners (and all the other entries I can) will be exhibited during the 4th Brazilian Arts for Animal Rights Annual Exhibit (Samoa!, by the Portuguese acronym), which is likely going to be held in June 2013.
So, by joining this contest, you´re allowing me to exhibit your artwork in related exhibitions (always crediting you, of course) and also use your artwork to make public this kind of contest in the media. Other people might use your art for animal rights cause too, but always telling you about that first and also crediting you.
Here you can see some photos of the 2012 Exhibit: www.facebook.com/media/set/?se… .
How to Submit
[PLEASE, CHECK THIS CAREFULLY]
If and when you´re ready to submit your artwork, please comment on this journal with a link to where I can find it (If you´re not in deviantArt, you may also e-mail me: mauricio dot kanno at gmail dot com). You can submit up to 3 artworks. I´m likely going to show all of the entries on a new folder in my Collections.
Kindly write in the info area under your artwork just a line saying that it´s an entry for the Arts for Animal Rights Contest 2013 (IARC), with a link to this journal, so that more people can know about the contest.
Also, please write on that same info area the information about which technique / material you used to make your artwork and how much time have you spent on it, ok?
At last, no mature content is allowed (for experience taught me that mature content makes it difficult to show the collected arts later...).
Prizes
The international vegan cosmetics company Surya Brasil, present in Brazil, the United States, India, France and 16 other countries, offers, to each one of the three first winners: a kit shampoo, hair conditioner and mask from Precious Amazon Line (in case of female winners); or kit shaving from Sapien Man Line, including shaving cream, facial exfoliator and post-shaving hydratant (in case of male winners)! All the products have Vegan and Ecocert certificate for organic products. They´ll also receive the company bottom with the text "Love Vegan Cosmetics".
Also, the beautiful vegan company JMA - J´adore Mes Amis is offering as prize for the winner of this contest "1 T-shirt, 1 botton, 1 Mucky´s reusable shopping bag and 2 itens of Le Bidou´s line (as liquid soap or air-freshner)"! Besides, for the 2nd and 3rd places, the company is also offering "1 item Le Bidou for each one, and a botton or sticker"!
And the original prizes are still counting! I´m offering a Premium Membership (or equivalent dA points) of 1 year to the first winner, 3 months to the 2nd and 1 month for the 3rd; a watercolor or gouache comission I can do for the first winner; and special highlights during the 2013 Brazilian event (and maybe in the event in Japan too).
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[Know more about Surya Brasil in its website ( suryabrasilproducts.com/ ), page on Facebook ( www.facebook.com/SuryaBrasilBR ) or YouTube channell ( www.youtube.com/user/suryabras… )!
And you can know more about JMA in their website: www.jmabr.eco.br/br/ (in Portuguese). You can try Google Translator for English: translate.google.com.br/transl… !]
Let´s go!
If you´re interested in participate and are planning or working on your art, please tell me that! And please, feel free to help telling your friends about this contest or running a similar exhibition in your country too!
Well, good luck and see you soon!
Submitted artworks
By the way, here are the artworks submitted until now: mauriciokanno.deviantart.com/f…
Winner of the Contest for Human Rights
I chose the artwork above, named "Protecting own beliefs", painted by RoadZero, from Ukraine!
It was selected because I think it expresses the subject of the contest in the best way, among the entries: in a delicate, positive, strong way. Moreover, I think it really shows expression, feeling of the characters, in an interesting way with her watercolour. It may not be so realistic as other entries, but I was looking more for the best convey of emotion and delicacy about the theme.
She will get the prize and everyone will get a symbolic amount of dA points for the participation. Thank you for the interest in the contest! Sorry very much for my delay to announce the winner; unfortunately, I didn´t get the help I was expecting for the selection, among other issues.
You can see all the five entries in my previous journal: mauriciokanno.deviantart.com/j… .
And here you can read the original announcement, rules and prizes of the contest: mauriciokanno.deviantart.com/j… .