Speak for the Peaks

Upon submission of an artwork to the Speak for the Peaks art initiative, artists, content creators, and any other entities with a vested interest in the artwork submitted agree to the following terms and conditions without limitation:
- All submissions will be considered public and sharable on social media (if possible) and across all other public platforms upon and after submission and up until the totality of the Speak for the Peaks art initiative has ended.  
- Submissions will not be anonymous, and must be attributed to their creator(s) to qualify.
    - Submissions may or may not be hosted on the Speak for the Peaks website which others can view and share, as a living document. 
   - Submissions belong to their creator(s), hence direct permission will always be sought from creators of said artworks before being used for future announcements and/or possible collaborations not connected with the Speak for the Peaks arts initiative.

✧Participation/Engagement: 
When considering submissions, Indigenous relations of the region will be given priority; Indigenous relatives who are not of the area are welcome to join and will be considered for prizes. Submissions of art, created by non-indigenous relatives will not be considered for prizes but are encouraged to create expression that corresponds to acts of solidarity. Collaboration, sharing of fellow contestant’s content, and open dialogue are all encouraged. While this is a competition, responding to other’s work in a manner that lends to lateral violence will result in disqualification. Speak for the Peaks organizers have complete discretion in matters of disqualification.   

Submissions will be viewed by a panel of Indigenous judges that will base their evaluations on the following criteria:
1. The clarity of an art submission’s messaging as it relates to answering the prompt (based on the applicable phase of the Speak for the Peaks art initiative).
2. The creative originality of the art submission.
3. The material composition/quality of the art submission as it relates to the design.
4. The the overall impression of the art submission – Does the art submission positively influence our relations to one another at a local and global level? Overall, does the artwork stand firm in relation to Indigenous concepts?

Additional Considerations:

Poor quality 
Submissions will not be considered if the quality of the submission is inadequate, as in, digitally unreadable, corrupt as a file, or difficult to decipher. Creators are reminded that their submissions will be viewed not only by a panel of judges, but by those within their regional community and the larger community of Indigenous folks and allies across Turtle Island; hence, the message of your submission should be digitally accessible, of readable quality, and appropriate size so it can be transmitted across platforms.    

Marketing 
Submissions that contain large and over-sized branding/watermarks will not be hosted on the Speak for the Peaks website and will not be considered for prizes. 

Incomplete/Incorrectly Filled Submission Form
If we receive submission forms that are incomplete or incorrectly filled out (generally) these submissions will not be used or considered for prizes. Judges are given access to a wide range of submissions within a limited set of time (to engage, evaluate, and make their decisions in time for announcements); judges' capacity to address and remedy every participant’s incomplete form is time that detracts from focusing on judging, therefore incomplete submissions will be placed at the bottom of the pile and IF time permits, will be retrieved for judging.