Hello everyone. These are the winners for the open call - 1st place: My Tribe; Gemini Rising, tied for 2nd place Silhoutte; Elisair, The One That can See with the Heart; Belu Espina, Water Bodies; Ladra, A Woman’s Body Art; Genvergara. We have decided that since there are 4 people tied for 2nd place that we are combining the prize money of 2nd & 3rd place to be $350 and dividing it by 4. To be fair, both Belu and I (Gemini Rising) are not claiming the prize money but leaving it in INA DAO to be put towards buying art. To tell the truth, we are all a bit disappointed by what has been happening in our DAO and have had to resort to making specific guidelines for people to follow to make it fair for everyone. Once again, you can find the guidelines here: INA DAO Member Guidelines. How we arrived at this decision is by using these guidelines. So, everyone who has voted for more than 3 pieces, YOUR VOTES have been eliminated - krizzy, louietism, yonakawaii, elavatar02, genvergara, jamilaa, cjaneartz, jami2017, swilart2, vanengs, dabbie3229, ironoxide, maryrazel. If you are male, you MAY NOT ENTER TO WIN A PRIZE - louietism. If you did NOT SHOW UP TO THE GALLERY OPENING, you have been eliminated from receiving a prize - 0. And lastly, if you have been FOUND SOLICITING FOR VOTES, you have also been eliminated from winning a prize - yonakawaii, elavatr, louietism, jamilaarts, pemmie, swilart2. So here are the real total number of votes for each piece: #1 2 votes, #2 3 votes, #3 0 votes, #4 2 votes, #5 3 votes (one vote was added manually), #6 0 votes, #7 2 votes, #8 0 votes, #9 0 votes, #10 3 votes, #11 3 votes, #12 1 vote, #13 6 votes (there are 5 in the poll, but because for some reason voting was closed by Astro, 2 more votes were added manually), #14 2 votes, #15 6 votes but eliminated for soliciting votes, #16 0 votes, #17 3 votes but eliminated for being a male and soliciting for votes. I know this may seem harsh to some of you, but we hope in the future you will start to follow the guidelines and try to be fair. There are already some artists out there that don’t want to submit anymore because of the cheating that is going on. Everyone’s art is featured in our galleries this month and we welcome anyone to submit something, but that does not necessarily mean that you will be able to enter for prizes. We will be changing the voting procedures in the near future in the hopes that this does not happen again. Congratulations to all the winners!!