Ohana Building Photography Submission Call to Action
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Ohana will be a warm, welcoming facility that embraces nature: it features abundant natural light and outdoor meeting areas. The program fills the urgent need for high-quality mental health services for the youth of our community. Ohana is named with the Hawai’ian word for an extended social-support system (family, close friends, colleagues and communities of belonging).
ABOUT
Submit your photographs to be considered for inclusion in the “Art Library” at Ohana, Montage Health’s new youth mental and behavioral health facility, opening at Ryan Ranch in spring 2023. This one-of-a-kind facility will provide innovative, self-empowering mental health services for youth across the greater Monterey, Salinas and Santa Cruz areas. Youth in residential care at Ohana will be able to select artworks from the library to hang in their private bedrooms. This is an opportunity for your art to have a positive impact on your peer community. Photographs will be reviewed by a jury of professionals, who will select ten images for $200 purchase awards. Jurors include Dr. Susan D. Swick, executive director, Ohana Center for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health and Ann M. Jastrab, executive director, Center for Photographic Art.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: August 1, 2022
Notification of awards: September 2022
Online exhibition: December 2022
ELIGIBILITY
High school and college students in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties
SUBMISSION CRITERIA
Darkroom and digital photography, color and black and white images
File type: Jpeg, longest side 2048px and 300 dpi
Files saved as lastname-1.jpg, lastname-2.jpg, etc
Artist’s statement, one page maximum (briefly introduce us to you, your work and its significance)
Online submission form
Minimum 5 images, maximum 10
IDEAL IMAGES WILL
Provide a counterbalance to emotional distress
Encourage calm contemplation and comfort
Address ideas of interconnectedness
Evoke the restorative power of the natural world
Foster a sense of curiosity
Be open to interpretation
Show creative, positive energy
Avoid picturing distress or anxiety
Avoid visual distortion or blurring that may be disorienting