An experience with wait listing. I normally do not accept being put on a wait list as I have plenty of studio work to catch up on, and I do not double up on show applications. I pick the shows I want to do and I am either in or not. This spring I did accept a wait list offer for an out of state show in early June as it was in a dead zone for Colorado. In the interim I got an invitation to do a show produced by a local art guild and I would like to see this one succeed. I notified the out of state show by email to be taken off the wait list by email about 2 months before the show. You guessed it, about three weeks before the show they call and ask me to come. I declined. Moral of the story: don't blame the artist if the show management doesn't read their emails.
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How do you know that they didn't read the email? As Jim mentioned elsewhere, Coconut Grove one year was calling people that they had rejected, not even put on the wait list when they had too many cancellations.
Your show may have needed to fill a space in the leather section of the show and thought maybe you would change your mind.
I told the person who called me that I had sent them an email to take me off their wait list. The reply I got was "I guess I better look at my emails". And this was from one of the shows muckity mucks. If it ended up in their spam folder I would question their business acumen about handling "foreign" emails. This was a well established show too, not a bunch of first timers. Bottom line: I notified them, they weren't taking are of business period.
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How do you know that they didn't read the email? As Jim mentioned elsewhere, Coconut Grove one year was calling people that they had rejected, not even put on the wait list when they had too many cancellations.
Your show may have needed to fill a space in the leather section of the show and thought maybe you would change your mind.