I make tiaras. They are fanciful and elegant. I use feathers, vintage jewelry, watch parts, gears, as well as glass beads and pearls. I consider them accessories, but that is never a category of its own. I hate to try to get in under jewelry as they really aren't, and metal work? I bend the wire, but no soldering. Multimedia? Some contain many different media, but no all of them. I am stuck and could use advice.
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This is an amazing tiara! They all are. Wow! Mixed media would be my choice.
I've juried shows. All kinds of things show up in that category. The jurors will be prepared for the "free for all" that happens in that category.
I have juried shows as well, but my thoughts would lean toward Wearables or Other.
When I did watercolor & also used pastels & india ink in my picture, I would always be placed into the mixed media, because you couldn't call it all painting, just as you couldn't call it all pastels or the india ink drawing, so it was mixed. It seems some shows put too much in mixed! It is a unique piece! I think the wearable category.
They're so cool! I'm thinking maybe jewelry because they are jewelry for one's head, aren't they? Otherwise, maybe wearables? Do you have a website?
Thanks, www.tinastiaras.com
They're fabulous!!! Thank you...
I am artist but I am also serving as Artists Director for a show in Williamsburg VA (An Occasion for the Arts).
I would not consider this to be jewelry. AOFTA's jewelry category has this statement "No more than 15% of a piece may consist of commercial findings." Jewelry is more about this: "Hand-fabricated jewelry designed and made by the artist in metals, wire wrapping, precious metal clay, wood, fiber, gems, stones, and flame-worked beads ... blah blah." Depending on the show that you are applying to, the jewelry category is very, very competitive.
I would see this coming under fiber or 3D mixed media. Of course, every show and every person's opinion will be different. $30/35 applications add up fast.
-- Leo
Looking for definition of wearable fiber art. I thought it had to be a garment.
You need better images. At least two of them are blurry at full size.
Larry Berman
Do they fit the wearable fiber category?
I would think you wouldn't want to apply under jewelry and you can't under metal because you don't make the metal parts.
Maybe 3D mixed media?
Larry Berman
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