Off the Roll Tape Sculpture Contest

Art has its rewards. Especially when
it's made of Scotch® Packaging Tape.

Your art could win you a fortune

Grand Prize winner will receive a check for $5,000. There will also be three First Prizes of $500. Winners also receive a case (36 rolls) of Scotch® Premium Performance Packaging Tape (to create more sculptures, of course!).

All entries will be judged based on the following:

Creativity

The originality of your idea

Execution

The visible quality of your artwork and its construction

Presentation

How well you present your work in the photo(s) you upload

Voting score

The number of votes your entry receives from the public will be considered in the second round of judging. And each vote brings you closer to the honor of being named the Popular Vote winner.

For more details regarding the judging criteria, click here.

...and fame, too

Recognition is something all artists want for their work. Your entry will be seen by lots of people in the Off the Roll gallery. If your sculpture earns the most gallery votes, you'll earn a shout out as the Popular Vote Winner.

The Grand Prize and First Prize winners will be chosen by these noted artists:

Mark Jenkins, Artist

Mark Jenkins is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using Scotch packaging tape. His work has been featured in various publications including Time, The Washington Post, Reuters and The Independent. Additionally, his work has been shown indoors in galleries in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Brazil, and is represented by various galleries including the Lazarides Gallery in London. He maintains the website tapesculpture.org and teaches his tape casting process in workshops in the cities he visits. See his work at: http://www.tapesculpture.org/

Joe Davidson, Artist

Joe Davidson works in sculpture and installation. His work employs the use of disparate materials, notably Scotch tape, urethane foam, epoxies and plaster, and usually consists of objects cast in multiples to create large-scale installations. He was born in Massachusetts and moved to California in 1996 to attend graduate school at the San Francisco Art Institute. Joe is a 2008-2009 recipient of the City of Los Angeles Fellowship (COLA), where the work was exhibited at the Barnsdall Art Gallery in Los Angeles. He has also exhibited throughout North America, including with Tatar Gallery in Toronto, Lawrence Asher Gallery in Los Angeles and Berg Projects in West Hollywood, CA.

Jesse Nolan, Artist and Art Teacher

From GI Joe to Small Soldiers and Star Wars to Rug Rats toy sculptor Jesse Nolan has given three-dimensional form to two-dimensional characters for more than 20 years. Working as a freelancer, Nolan has been sculpting toys for major corporations, including Hasbro, Toy Biz, Fisher-Price and Disney. Trained at the National Academy of Design in New York City, Jesse received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He presently teaches a variety of art classes at The Paxon School for Advanced Studies in Jacksonville, Florida and has incorporated the use of Scotch packaging tape as an art medium.

*Judges are subject to change, based on availability.