The Ministry of Culture announces the opening of inscriptions for the Fest 2025 Visual Arts at its fifth edition, to be held from 1 to 15 July at the gallery of the City of the Arts.

The initiative aims at encouraging the creation, research, participation and exposure of visual arts and at contributing to strengthening Panama's cultural sector.

Individual artists, collective artists, groups of creators and public at large are invited to propose their works in the categories of painting, sculpture, photography, digital art, artistic installation, video art, performance and workshops or face or face-to-face convertations. La call will be open until June 14 of this year.

The festival will award economic awards that exceed B / .12.000.00. Two winners will be awarded by category as follows: painting, sculpture, photography, digital art and mixed technologies will be awarded a recognition of B / .9.000.00 each, artistic installations B / .80.00, video art B / .7000.00, performance B / .50.00 and workshops or contimatoriums B / .45.00.

In addition to the economic prize, the selected works will be exhibited with face to face during the festival, representing a valuable display for the participating artists.

To run, interested parties have to sign up for the website of the Ministry of Culture at the Festivals and Contests Section, available at https: / / MiCultura.gob.pa / crafts-visual-festicies-2024 /, where they will find the complete bases to apply.

Visual arts Fest 2025 fulfill the development of art in Panama, promoting spaces of visibility and strengthening for creators in different visual disciplines.