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Call in progress, submission by Sunday 31 October 2026

2026 Prize Thirteenth year, INVISIBLE DISABILITIES

THE 2025 Eleanor Worthington Prize, thirteenth year

Theme: "INVISIBLE DISABILITIES"

The Eleanor Worthington Prize on Art and Disability is open to all students at tertiary-level Art and Media Schools.

No entry fee is payable.

All Visual Art forms are admitted.

The Prize is run by the Associazione Premio Eleanor Worthington-ODV, a non-profit organisation based in Urbino, Italy.

HOW TO ENTER

All material should be uploaded on the platform GEP ( please copy, paste and open):

https://eleanorprize.org/media/pdf/school_3/eng/GEP_eng_User_Manual_sch3_v1-2.pdf

All Entries should be submitted by Saturday 31 October 2026.

Entries by more than one eligible author are admissible, but the value of the prize remains unchanged.

THE PRIZES

The winners of the 2026 Prize will be announced at https://www.eleanorprize.org/ by Sunday 29th November, 2026.

First, second and third prizes will be awarded. At each level (first, second and third) there is one prize for a student from Italian institutions, and one prize for a student from international institutions.

The first prize consists in one week’s board and lodging in a Hall of Residence of the University of Urbino, Italy, in 2027, in concomitance with an event organized by the Associazione. SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION, if so desired during the week in Urbino it will be possible to enroll FOR FREE in A ONE WEEK COURSE ON  ENGRAVING, organized by the Scuola del Libro in Urbino. The  course is likely to be available during the second half of August 2027.A contribution will be made to travel costs.

In exceptional circumstances alternatives to this prize will be considered.

The second prize consists of € 300, offered by the Urbino local authority.

The third prize consists of art books.

PRIZE-GIVING EVENT AND EXHIBITION

Students receiving prizes are requested to attend the Prize given event, in person or on line.

The prize-giving event will take place on Thursday 3rd December 2026, at 10:30 a.m. in the Sala Convegni of the Ducal Palace, Urbino, Italy, and at the same time in York St John University. The event will also be available online, details to be published on the website. During the prize giving event, entries will be shown in digital form.

All entries will be displayed in the Exhibition to be held in Urbino, Art Gallery to be determined, on 3rd December, in concomitance with the Prize giving event. Curator of the Exhibition is Nunzia Invernizzi, Artistic Director of the Association.

All the works will also be shown in the Exhibition to be held in York St John University in March 2027, curated by Helen Turner, Associate Head of Art at York St John University.

All details to be announced in due course on the web site.

SELECTED VIDEOS WILL BE SHOWN IN THE 2027 INTERNATIONAL PESARO FILM FESTIVAL https://www.pesarofilmfest.it/en/

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

All submitted works must have a title. They can also optionally be accompanied by a short statement of their “concept” (max 400 characters, spaces included).concepts must be in .doc or .docx format. The statement of the entrant’s details should likewise be in .doc or .docx format.

All submitted works must have an audio description, both in English and in Italian, to last no more than 2 minutes, in MP3 format.

Please note that the evaluation of the audiodescription by a specialist judge carries the same weight as the evaluation by other judges.

All images must be in .jpg (not .pdf) format. They must be high-resolution (min. 300 DPI), for the purpose of appearing in the exhibition, where they would most likely be printed as cm.70x100.

Videos and animations must last at most 3 minutes, and must be in MP4 format, with H264 compression. All video subjects developing the theme are welcome, e.g. fiction, documentary, experimental.

Animations and videos must be in two versions, one anonymous for the Jury, and one non anonymous for the website, where the first frame of the video must contain the title, the author’s name(s), the institution of enrolment, and the town.

To facilitate the creation of the audio description, two guiding videos are available at the following addresses:

FOR STATIC IMAGES:

https://gep.eleanorprize.org/media/pdf/audiodescrizioni_istruzioni/immagini_statiche_en.mp4

FOR VIDEOS:

https://gep.eleanorprize.org/media/pdf/audiodescrizioni_istruzioni/video_en.mp4

EVALUATION

Works are anonymously evaluated by the Jury, composed of:

Bruno Bartoccini, ANFFAS Fermignano, Urbania, Urbino

Giulio Calegari, Artist, and Paleonthologist, Milano

Griselda Goldsbrough, Arts Development Manager for the York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Kimbal Bumstead, artist

Raffaele Andrea De Simone, Commissione territoriale dell’Osservatorio permanente per il design ADI·MAM

Mariella Roberti, Psyco-pedagogist

Martin Worthington, Professor University of Pisa,member of the Worthington family.

An expert in audiodesrciptions, to be appointed

PARTNERS

The Prize is run in cooperation with York St John University, and of the Corso di Perfezionamento-Scuola del Libro, Urbino;

with the sponsorship of the University Carlo Bo of Urbino, Accademia Belle Arti, Urbino; Accademia Raffaello, Urbino; ISIA Roma-Pordenone; the Associazione Disegno Industriale (ADI) branch of Marche, Abruzzo, Molise;

and with the support of the York Disability Rights Forum, of York Explore Library and Archives, of the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino; of the ANFFAS Fermignano, Urbania, Urbino; and of various institutions.

Urbino, 14 May 2026

info@premioeleanor.it