After a long absence from doing art fairs, I've started doing shows again so have gotten my fair share of rejections over the last 9 months... Got one for a one day show in Upper Arlington, OH and actually got the jury feedback about my work upon req
Read more…An ongoing challenge for all of us is "crafting" sets of jury slides. I've been discussing this with a Psychiatrist friend of mine lately. Not that I'm in therapy or anything, but maybe that would be beneficial. Anyway I'm curious to know what factor
Read more…I'm doing at least May and June of a 5x Second Saturday's show (May-September) this summer already in North Kansas City. It's free so if it goes well I'll do more dates of it. I did 4 times of it last year and it was really slow. They changed the
Read more…A good day at the post office I've heard it from other artists for years, a lot of whom I've been able to help. But now I've experienced it myself. I just received two acceptances in the mail for shows not using online applications but asking for di
Read more…No Bars Hold...
Seriously...NO SERIOUSLY! Why am I being blackballed? Do they not think I can make jewelry like this? The judges just blacked balled me again! My father would roll over in in grave if he knew this was going on, give me a good explan
Read more…Just noticed that the Naperville Riverwalk show (IL) has a $65.00 jury fee.
I was appaled at the $50.00 fee that was being charged by the State street (Ann Arbor) show.
Is this just greed or are they really just hoping to pare down the application
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Digital files, 35mm slides or prints On the Chatham Festival of the Arts application, you have three choices on how to submit your images for jurying. 1 - SLIDES Mark each slide with your name & ‘top.’ 2 - DIGITAL FILES Please submit digital files t
Read more…I have always noticed that different monitors seem to have different settings when it comes to images looking too dark or too light but yesterday I was shocked when I saw my new images that I had put on my website and zapp on a different computer tha
Read more…I'm new here. Here's my intro post if you want to know a bit about me - http://www.artfairinsiders.com/forum/topics/new-lapidaryjeweler-in-cedar
Here's my first attempt at shooting a booth photo. It was a windy day & I couldn't leave the canopy setup
Read more…We artists may be creative wonders but many of us suffer from a hopeless gambling addiction.
We gamble, against all odds, getting juried into the Grand-Poobah Big Shows across this fine land. We keep sending those jury fees just as surely a
Read more…I just got another show rejection today with the added information. “We do not have comments from jurors or scores that we can share with you.”
This is something that has bugged me since I got into this business. I can see no legitimate reason fo
Read more…I've been reading several of the discussions in several different areas about what goes in to applying for a juried show... Do you apply as early as possible or not? Do you submit four images of one "line" of work or do you show the array you produc
Read more…I need some advice. I applied to 6 of a promotors shows and was wait listed for all of them. I know that applying doesn't automatically get you into the show because you were there in previous years, but I feel so sad, hurt, disappointed, etc.,tha
Read more…Good day, all ...
I'm a photographer and a good deal of my body of work is presented for sale as larger multi-panel pieces of work. The complete images are available in 3, 4 and 5 panel pieces ranging up to 14' in length. My question is how t
Read more…When a fair asks for an artist statement, what information are they seeking?
Thank you,
Terri
Read more…Let me start by saying I know my booth shots are terrible. (Now Larry doesn't have to say it) Yes, I shot them myself. Unfortunately, it's all I have. The application has to get into the mail today, tomorrow at the latest.
I'm applying to a local
Read more…planning to submit to a Baltimore show in July, but confused by its electronic application images requirements: "max width of 640 (I assume ppi) but up to "250MB." First is very small , second is huge. The numbers seem unrelated and this is unlike
Read more…My medium is wire jewelry. When I submit images for jurying, are professional photos expected?
Thank you,
Terri
Read more…This is about a factor not talked about in the makeup of the jury. It's been discussed whether they are academics, gallery owners or others in related fields. But what hasn't been discussed yet is the age of the jurors and how their decisions change
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