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Doll Artisan Guild Competition
General Overview
Enter your dolls to win Ribbons, Rosettes and Top Awards. Join the excitement and enter doll(s) in the world’s most coveted and educational competition for porcelain doll makers. Get your work evaluated professionally and thoroughly. Take home beautiful ribbons and possible rosettes and Top Awards. Blue ribbon winners compete for rosettes and rosette winners compete for Top Awards.
Most D.A.G. Competitions are held during events where you can also participate in workshops, attend lectures, shop in a sales room and much more. DAG organizes competitions in the USA, Australia, Europe and Japan. For current dates, see “Events”.
The excitement will build from the day you start planning your doll to the moment you know how it fared in competition.
And you'll delight in seeing your work on exhibit during the event.
Some Highlights:
1. Enter dolls in categories for Reproductions of Antique and Modern Dolls
2. Top Awards offered:
Magge: Award given to the best Reproduction of Modern Dolls. This award is named after Magge Head Kane, a beloved US doll sculptor, one of the founders of modern porcelain dollmaking as a hobby and an art. Two Magges are given, one for professional and one for non-professional
Millie: Award given to the best Reproduction of Antique Dolls. This award is named after Mildred Seeley, founder of the Doll Artisan Guild. Two are given, one for professional and one for non-professional dolls.
Rolf Ericson’s Award for Outstanding Doll Sculpture: Given to the best original sculpture. Rolf Ericson is a founder and Executive Director of the DAG. (Not awarded at every competition, see specific competition invitation for availability.)
Aurora: Presented to the best small doll. Chosen from specific small doll’s categories. (Not awarded at every competition, see specific competition invitation for availability.)
Eva’s Choice: Awarded to the best imagination doll or figurine . Named after Eva Oscarsson, editor of Doll Artisan magazine for many years. (Not awarded at every competition, see specific competition invitation for availability.)
Gold Rosette: If a top award winner from a previous competition is chosen to receive the same top award again, it will receive a Special Gold Rosette. Each DAG top award may only be won once.
3. Score sheets will be rendered to every participant at the time of reclaiming the dolls. The score sheet is a reflection of the judges’ joint opinions.
4. Award-winning dolls will be featured in the Doll Artisan magazine, where they will be seen by over 20,000 readers involved in dollmaking and collecting.
5. In some competitions there are Special Theme Categories that are announced in the particular event’s invitation.
6. Open Category for “Decorative Porcelain Pieces”, figurines, statuettes, and more.
7. D.A.G. Competitions are open to D.A.G Members only.
8. Dollmakers are classified as Professional or Non-Professional. Professional dollmakers are those who teach for a fee, or have set themselves up in the business of selling their dolls. Other dollmakers may class themselves in either division. Top-award winners are expected to enter as Professionals when they compete again.
9. Dolls must be pre-registered.
10. Only dolls with china painted porcelain heads may be entered.
11. The following types of dolls may not be entered: Dolls that have been entered before in a DAG or a DAGSD-qualifying competition, commercial dolls, dolls made from kits, dolls with “studio markings,” dolls made in seminar or class, dolls by D.A.G. judges and instructors.
12. Each doll must be incised in the greeware with your name or initials and the year (complete year, eg. “2001”)
13. All dolls will be beautifully displayed during show hours with their ribbons, rosettes, and awards.
14. To receive complete information about a specific competition: send in a self-addressed, stamped, business size envelope to: Doll Artisan Guild, Attn: Competition “location”, PO BOX 1113, Oneonta, NY 13820.
FOR CURRENT SCHEDULE: GO TO EVENTS SECTION
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