In a business full of taking chances the first big challenge an artist has is to make the jury cut at the shows. Mo Riley, executive director of the Ann Arbor Art Street Art Fair, Lyn Sedlak-Ford, jury chair for Art in the Pearl, an artist run art fair in Portland, OR, and Jerry Allen Gilmore, artist, curator and juror for many of the top art fairs discuss:
- choosing a jury, who are those people and what their credentials are
- what an art show organizer does with your submission before the actual jury day
- what an artist receives in exchange for a jury/application fee
- how a juror evaluates art that is not in his/her field of expertise
- what the jurors learn from each other and why the panel should include insiders (art fair artists) and outsiders (teachers, curators, museum folks)
- how the final choices for the show participants are made
- wait lists
In listening I was particularly taken with the seriousness of purpose with which these people treated the jurying. When they talk about pre-jurying and the number of times a juror looks at the images the level of professionalism is readily apparent.
Listen to this podcast and be prepared to look at the jury process in a new way.
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