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Off to St. James! The whole story...

Posted by Connie Mettler on September 30, 2010 at 5:00pm
Here is the "insiders" story on St. James Court...the true story of a very popular event, an excellent long article that discusses these topics:

  • Why does the St. James Court Art Show Exist?

  • How is the show run?
  • How are the artists chosen?
  • Here’s how the judging process works:
  • How does the show make its money?
  • How is the revenue spent? --- (really important for artists to know this)
  • Economic Impact on the community --- (over $10,000,000 yearly)
and in closing:

"When you come to the show, know every dollar you spend goes to help an artist pursue their passion and add beauty to the world. It also goes to make Old Louisville, and our region in general, a better place. Most artists at the show make their livings from touring nationally with
their art."

Read it to truly get a grasp on the economic importance of this long-running art show: www.insiderlouisville.com

Any members here going to be at St. James?


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Press Release from Juried Art Services

Posted by Connie Mettler on January 26, 2009 at 9:06pm
Here is the latest news from Juried Art Services' President Paul Fisher: On January 12th Juried Art Services experienced a server crash. All systems have been restored but some data was lost. We have taken the necessary actions to prevent this kind of occurrence in the future. In greater detail, here's what happened: We had been replicating data to a second hard drive to provide both backup and disaster recovery abilities. The data loss occurred when the data on the first drive became corrupted, and due to a hardware failure, this condition was then replicated to the second drive. We immediately had the servers couriered to one of the nations leading data recovery firms (used by Dunn & Bradstreet and NASA.) They were unsuccessful and all data entered after Dec 24th was lost. Because this was a hardware failure, not a system crash, all software and functions remained fully intact. We have now brought a new server system online to ensure future security. We have switched hosting companies, upgraded our services, added load balancing services to address both traffic fluctuations and hardware failures and now have an offsite backup server in place. Applications, new accounts and images uploaded between December 24th and January 12th had to be re-created. All applicants who had paid their applications were notified quickly by JAS and/or the respective shows to alert them to check if their application was affected and information had to be re-entered. After going "off air" on January 12th the site was back up on the 17th with a prominent notice on the home page of our web site explaining what happened and what action needed to be taken. We then took three days to re-check and thoroughly de-bug the system and on January 20th notified everybody in our system and placed notices on Internet forums and art show web sites. We extended all customer services so that we could quickly respond by phone or email to everyone. To make the process easier we implemented a new e-mail address for artists to send us their images, which we then resized and upload for them. JAS is totally committed to providing the best application and jurying process in the world. We have made a substantial investment in our infrastructure and staffing and we are very excited about the upcoming release of great new features and innovations later this year. Together we will provide every possible advantage to our artists and shows to help them prosper and grow. And as of today, all shows have nearly met or exceeded the number of applications from before the incident.
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