LOVELY LINKS

[WildCherry]

If you have any links you want to share then POST THEM AS COMMENTS IN THIS THREAD.

(Please don't include competition details here, use the competiton thread instead)

[Anne Westlund]

I posted this earlier, but this is a how-to on putting together a poetry manuscript.

http://poetry.about.com/od/poetrybooks/ht/howmanuscript.htm

Anne

[Heidi]

The Artist´s Magazine Annual Art Competition http://www.artistsnetwork.com/annualcompetition/

NOTE: Photography, digital art, and sculpture will NOT be accepted in this competition.

Heidi

[WildCherry]

Heidi, I'm going to post this link under a fine art heading. I meant this links bit to just be for information around the idea of entering competitions rather than links to the competitions themselves. Confusing, i know. I'm not very good at explaining things, that's why I'll never be a teacher!

[Heidi]

Good idea - I wasn´t sure what genre to put it in, but Fine Art covers it!

Heidi

[WildCherry]

You can subscribe to a free (but reduced) list of art competitions here: http://www.artdeadlineslist.com/

[WildCherry]

Matchup

This site appears to act like an online gallery/broker for artist's work. They also have competitions. The only drawback I could see was that they seem to require a slide of your work rather than just a digital foto.

[DJ]

Hello all...Hope everyone is creatively active and productive...
I ran across this article on competing and thought I'd share it here.
You may already be familiar with it, since it comes from Cheap Joe's Art Supply site. I hope I'm not linking something already shared here at CCS...if so, I'll apologize now. :-)
Some advice and info from the other side of the exhibit process...
http://www.cheapjoes.com/art-instruction/art-lessons/tip-015-compet...

[WildCherry]

That's a really interesting article DJ. The only thing I'm not so sure I would agree with is the juror's own style of work not affecting what they choose for the show as some friends of mine who have acted as jurors on the local show here says the kind of work chosen is very much affected by the style preferred by the jurors...Last year, for example, at the local show here (works on paper) a large percentage of the pieces chosen looked something out of an avant garde graphic novel (my other half's observation, not mine btw) and the year before (different jurors) all the pieces were in very earthy or dark tones...I suppose in some sense this is not unsurprising because having similar sorts of work can make the exhibition hang together better whereas really disparate styles are harder to hang (as I experienced this summer!). What do other people think?

Coincidentally, I'm in the process of editing a sort of companion article to that one for my blog where I interview a 'galerista' and ask them what they look for in the work they choose...Will post a link when its done but its taking me a while since my new blog is bilingual so I have to translate it into (bad) Spanish as well...

Nice to catch up with you DJ! How ya been? Hugs