It burns me that shows....a lot of shows are extending their deadlines.
It is yet another slap in the artist face,and a way for them to make another buck.
Unfortunately there is nothing we can do about it. :(
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I was just accepted into the Nassau County Art Museum Show on Long Island, and they want a deposit and booth fee check post dated. I then saw today that they extended the deadline to apply on Zapp! What that all about? Makes me feel that they did not fill the show, and Ithought I read that they only have 100 artits in the show period.
Makes me wonder if it is a show worth doing, the demographics are right and its close for me, and Im town the weekend before. But it's another $1000 for a double, and fees are adding up. Anyone done that show?
The other aspect of this that I find annoying is when a show extends deadlines DESPITE having placed artists on a waiting list. I think Munks referred to this practice recently as "sodomy," and that sounds about right. It would seem only right that if a show hasn't filled, that the artists on the wait list would be invited before a deadline is extended, wouldn't it? Or am I missing something?
I am still newish to applying to a lot of shows, so far though, I have not looked twice at a show which extended their deadline, I always assumed, that if they can't get enough artists to fill the show by the original deadline, not enough artists are interrested which tells me that those artists not applying know something I dont, like this show is not worth applying to.
I also never applied to shows where the deadline to apply is only a week before the show starts.
I every once in a while see Deadline until show is full, havent made up my mind about that one yet, seems honest though.