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Can I Bring New Work After I’ve been Approved for a Juried Show?

This may be a dumb question, but I’m doing the Neptune Festival in Virginia Beach in a couple months. The information packet says can’t bring work outside the scope/style of work submitted and juried, or work not submitted with photos. 

Does that mea

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Wait List number - Kudos to Madison

Just a shout out to the folks at Madison (Art Fair on the Square) - for posting the wait-list number from the jury results on our MyZAPPlications page.

Thank you.  Brilliant!  And truly appreciated by this artist.  

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Boston Mills- has anyone heard?

I read that the jury results were to go out Feb. 28.

I have not heard anything.

So, has anyone received their results, or was there a delay?

I emailed but no reply yet.

Thanks.

Judy

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Jury Notifications

Beginner question: what happens when the jury is finished?  Do they notify everyone of their results, or only the people who were accepted/waitlisted? I ask because I applied to the San Diego show, which says their artist notification will be 3/25 -

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Chesterton Art Fair

Has anyone done the Chesterton Art Fair in Chesterton, IN?  It is not far from me.  But a few years ago I was checking it out and got the impression that everyone was grandfathered in from the year before.  If that's the case, your chances of getting

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Review *** St. Louis Art Fair Mock Jury 1-21-17

I had the pleasure of participating in the Mock Jury offered.

Although my intention was to attend in person, unfortunately I was not able to. Instead, I was able to attend via a Remote sharing Citrix system using GoToMeeting.

The event was run EXCELL

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Booth & Jury Images

Hey guys,

I posted this as reply a previous post but I couldn't tell if anyone one seeing it so I thought I'd repost it as a new thread and see if that works any better.

I have done dozens of shows in my first year and I have learned so much. After c

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Input on Booth please!

I am moving from an EZ Up to a Trimline so will be doing a new booth shot in a couple of weeks. I'd love some feedback on my current booth shot before I set up for the new one. I saw a number of things I wanted to change after I took this one (I need

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Concerns with allowing Quality images submitted for Jury

I understand the importance of submitting good images for jury, in order to get in to shows.

My concern is giving "high Quality" copies.

This is not the booth shot. It is the work samples.

Jewelry, fabric, sculpture woodwork, metalwork etc are medium

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Clean Booth images Framework removal

For Jury booth shots... Is it considered acceptable to:

Edit out / clear the framework of your tent from the submitting Booth Shots?

What i refer to is only the roof frame work, the diamonds.

Due to the angle the shots were taken, framework is distra

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Our first booth shot for review

Having just started taking the leap into art fairs, we are learning a lot very quickly. We would appreciate any critique or advice or hints you can share regarding our booth image. Thanks everyone! 

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Seasonal jury photos

I'm wondering if it matters to a jury whether the jury photos are season appropriate?

I do wearable art and would like to use a spring/summer item for a shot but does that matter if it's for a winter show?

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models vs mannequin

I'm wondering if jurors prefer the use of models or mannequins when judging wearable art? I think the work shows better on models but I've heard that some jurors feel they are a distraction. 

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Jury fees, the math

Maybe I'm just in a bad mood this morning, but I'm feeling a bit annoyed.  One of the many shows I've been rejected from recently replied with their sincere apologies, and all the numbers involved. We sincerely appreciate your interest and hope you'l

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Collecting rejections!

I am bummed out today because I just got a rejection for a show that I have done for the last two years.  It's a nice show, but a mostly local show.  In addition I got rejected (again!) from another local show that I did two years ago and now have be

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Categories for Jury process

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 th

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What's up with Belleville?

Jury results were to be emailed Feb. 24th for Belleville's Art on the Square, but as of today is still in jury and asking for our patience.  This is 36 days past the notification date and artists who have entered still don't know if they are in a sho

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Entrythingy images are all different sizes…?

Has anyone had this problem with Entrythingy?

 For some reason after images have been uploaded I’m seeing mine in all sorts of crazy sizes. Even though I’m using pieces uploaded straight from my original JPG upload folder, and have not re-sized anyt

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Upping the Ante: Jury Photos, Booth Planning, etc. Advice (and encouragement) please?

Hello Everyone!

This is a repeat, as I opriginally posted it in a blog and Larry Berman suggested I post it here.  :-)

I found AFI through Google and have been scouring it end to end. I have gleaned so much really useful information, for which I am d

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Embellished Giclee's…Reproductions or originals?

I'm sure I'm opening a can of worms with this question…but here goes...

Recently a friend did a show where an artist took giclee's and painted extra elements on them them and then sold them. (Not saying who, what, when, or where) My friend didn't see

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