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Call for Entries: Deadline Extended - Submit Your Original Art Depicting Life with hATTR Amyloidosis
August 8, 2019
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
“The Art of Living with hATTR Amyloidosis” is a new initiative inviting members of the hereditary ATTR (hATTR) amyloidosis community – including patients, caregivers, family members, and healthcare providers – to create and submit artistic representations expressing what it is like to live with the condition. The goal of the project is to raise awareness of hATTR amyloidosis – a rare, rapidly progressive and life-threatening disease – to help give voice to the community and support those who may feel isolated.
Symptoms of hATTR amyloidosis can vary and manifest differently, impacting multiple parts of the body and affecting people in distinct ways. This individualized experience can leave people feeling quite alone, and words can either be difficult to find or fall short in helping others to understand what each person is facing. ‘The Art of Living with hATTR Amyloidosis’ is designed to be a creative outlet for the community to share the diverse experiences of living with this this rare and sometimes misunderstood condition, to help raise awareness and change perspectives on it.
– Tiffany Patrick, Head of Global Patient Advocacy and Engagement at Alnylam
A panel of judges from the hATTR amyloidosis community and Alnylam will review submissions to select those which most effectively or creatively bring to life the impact of hATTR amyloidosis. Selected artwork will be featured in a printed calendar given to participants at the Amyloidosis Support Groups’ Biennial ATTR (Familial) Meeting, October 25 – 27, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. The art may also be featured at other, future events, including symposiums, meetings in Alnylam’s offices, medical centers, and reproductions in the future.
To participate, submit a photo of your original artwork to ArtofLiving@alnylam.com, along with your first name and location, by September 22, 2019. Please see below for full terms and conditions.
Terms and Conditions
By submitting a photo of your artwork (including drawings, paintings, photographs, mixed media and sculpture images) to Alnylam for selection and publication in a printed calendar, you agree to provide a permanent, non-exclusive, sublicensable, royalty-free license to display, publish, broadcast, reproduce, cache, and distribute this artwork in any medium. Artwork must be free of any rights of third parties. For photographs or any other media that include identifiable people, you must have the appropriate consent to submit the work in this contest. You will always retain ownership and copyright of your original artwork. Alnylam will never sell your artwork.
Entries can be submitted by those impacted by hATTR amyloidosis, including patients, caregivers, family members, and healthcare providers. Entries will be judged based solely on the inspirational nature of their artwork, and not on the entrants’ use of specific treatment options.
“The Art of Living with hATTR Amyloidosis” initiative is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are at least 18 years of age. The submission period opens at 12:00:00 AM (Midnight) Eastern Time ("ET") on August 8, 2019 and ends at 11:59:59 PM ET on September 22, 2019. Any photos of artwork submitted after this date will not be considered. Void outside the 50 United States and District of Columbia, and void where otherwise prohibited. Sponsored by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 300 Third Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02142.
All entrants must submit a photo of their artwork, along with their first name and location, to ArtofLiving@alnylam.com. Art will only be presented to the judging panel for selection if it conforms to predefined formats and dimensions required (see below).
- Photos should be no larger than 8MB and no smaller than 3024x4032 pixels
- For 3-D representations, such as sculpture, please submit at least two photos of the piece
- JPG files are preferred, but PNG and TIF files will be accepted
- Up to five pictures may be sent per entrant
Those who submit selected artwork will be notified via email. Respecting your privacy, selected artwork published in the calendar will include only your first name and city or state. For more details on Alnylam’s data privacy policy, please visit https://www.alnylam.com/privacy-policy/
If a person or a family portrayed in selected artwork no longer wishes the artwork to be used for public communication, Alnylam will discontinue further use. However, previously developed communication supports will be used until out of stock.
For any questions, please email ArtofLiving@alnylam.com
