The Montague Reporter, a weekly community newspaper serving Montague, Gill, Wendell, Leverett, and Erving, Mass., invites local artists to submit designs for a special Wrapping Paper Edition.
This special issue of the paper will be printed and sold to be used exclusively as recyclable and unique wrapping paper. The project is also a fundraiser for this independent, nonprofit newspaper.
The paper will select seven artists from the Western Massachusetts region to design wrapping paper pages based on their proposals and samples. Each artist will be given the space of two full adjacent pages for their design, making a double page measuring approximately 20 by 22 inches.
Designs may be in full color, black and white, or fifty shades of (G-rated) gray. Tattoo artists, comic illustrators, graffiti specialists, painters, street sketchers, kids, photographers, geometry nerds, type designers - all are encouraged to send in ideas for a wrapping paper.
The Wrapping Paper Edition will be printed during Thanksgiving week and sold throughout November and December, online and in stores. Each artist will receive a stipend of $200, thanks to cultural council funding from the towns of Montague, Wendell, and Gill, and the generosity of an anonymous donor. Artists will each receive 10 copies of the Wrapping Paper Edition.
Submissions are due by Thursday, Sept. 1. Selected artists will be contacted on Monday, Sept. 12. Finished designs would be due at the end of October.
Send your contact information and a proposal for a unique wrapping paper design, along with up to three samples of finished work that represent your style (JPEGs please), to features@montaguereporter.org with “Wrap” in the subject line.
For more information about the project, contact features editor Nina Rossi at 413-834-8800 or the above email address.