Jury and assessment criteria

Jury

The Bear Sculpting Championship 11^th–12^th of August 2022 / Bear Chair

The jury will select three best sculptures created in the two-day Bear Sculpting Championship competition based on the assessment criteria.

The chairman of the Championship Competition’s jury is chainsaw artist Juha Käkelä.
Members of the jury are Millanoora Räty from Ilomantsi Upper Secondary School, designer and ITE-art expert Paula Susitaival from The Association for Rural Culture and Education and ITE-summer town Parkano’s curator Arto Tuominen.

Secretaries of the jury are Raija Kallioinen and Katariina Niskanen from The Association for Rural Culture and Education (Maaseudun Sivistysliitto).

Assessment criteria

• Artistic expression
• Use of material, understanding of timber’s properties and technical execution (durability, splitting, utilizing the shape of the timber in visual implementation)
• Expression of competition’s theme Bear Chair in the work. The theme looks for sculptures, which can be used as resting places such as chairs or benches.
• Novel and untraditional use of solutions and subjects in an eloquent manner

The jury will determine the placing throughout discussion. Scoring will be used as help of the judgement. The jury also has the right to grant honorary awards.

The jury will select representatives from its ranks who will in the awards ceremony share the jury’s opinion of the sculptures, the competition and present the reasoning behind the final rankings of the award-winning works of art.

Prizes

The jury will award three prizes:

• 1st prize 1.000 euros
• 2nd prize 500 euros
• 3rd prize 300 euros 

The audience will also vote their favourite during August. At the end of the August the sculpting with the most votes wins 700 euros.

The jury may also award recognition prizes worth of 400 euros. 

The Speed Bear Sculpting Competition

Speed Sculpting Competition will be held on 13^th of August 2022. The theme of the competition is same as on the Bear Sculpting Championship, Bear Chair.  

The three best sculptures in the speed competition will be determined by an audience vote. The voting will take place after the sculpting time is over. Prizes: 1st prize: EUR 700, 2nd prize: EUR 400, 3rd prize: EUR 300

The local bank, OP Vaara-Karjala, will also award their Speed Sculpting competition favorite with a prize of 200 euros.