Image via 3rd Ward
Here’s a good opportunity for artists: 3rd Ward’s open call for their spring solo show. Direct from their website:
This SOLO SHOW is open to artists working in sculpture, photography, painting, printmaking, motion graphics, illustration, installation, industrial design, graphic design, and/or film & video. If your work falls outside these categories, drop us a line – we’re pretty flexible. And if it falls between them, even better…
The Selected Artist will receive a $1000 cash grant provided by the kind folks at Pernod plus a 2-month residency at 3rd Ward with FULL access to studios and facilities along with an exhibition at 3rd Ward in June with a huge opening reception and city-wide press exposure.
All Submissions must be received by (pay-pal) / post-marked (snail-mail) February 1st, 2008
3rd Ward charges a reasonable $25.00 exhibition submission fee (though to be honest we typically frown on such fees), and their programming is generally strong. Admittedly I have some reservations about the last solo show linked on their submissions page based on the splash page image — the men with beards motorcycle event/eXtreme boy art — but I guess since I didn’t see that solo show, I don’t actually get to have an opinion.
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I totally agree about submission fees. My attitude is “Keep the $1000 grant, and have the submissions free.” Or if you absolutely must cover some associated costs, make the submission fee token (e.g., $5).
I totally agree about submission fees. My attitude is “Keep the $1000 grant, and have the submissions free.” Or if you absolutely must cover some associated costs, make the submission fee token (e.g., $5).
I totally agree about submission fees. My attitude is “Keep the $1000 grant, and have the submissions free.” Or if you absolutely must cover some associated costs, make the submission fee token (e.g., $5).
I totally agree about submission fees. My attitude is “Keep the $1000 grant, and have the submissions free.” Or if you absolutely must cover some associated costs, make the submission fee token (e.g., $5).
Frown you should!
Taking a submissions fee is the tackiest thing an arts organization can do!
Either the organization in question is a 501c3 and is too lazy to write a freaking grant (AIM Program) or, in the case of 3rd Ward, is a for-profit who is accustomed to making money off artists and doesn’t know when to quit.
3rd ward has a great setup and offers great services to artists that are worth every penny. Charing reasonable fees for valuable things like shop space makes sense.
But a submission is not a service and should not be treated like one. A submission fee is more like a tax on hope. It’s a little moneymaking lottery: raffle-as-exhibition. The money collected from the losers allows the winners to win. It’s got bad karma written all over it, and frankly, everyone with taste (and good art to submit) eschews “opportunities” that cost a quarter of a hundred dollars.
3rd ward should rethink this policy. It makes them look bad.
Frown you should!
Taking a submissions fee is the tackiest thing an arts organization can do!
Either the organization in question is a 501c3 and is too lazy to write a freaking grant (AIM Program) or, in the case of 3rd Ward, is a for-profit who is accustomed to making money off artists and doesn’t know when to quit.
3rd ward has a great setup and offers great services to artists that are worth every penny. Charing reasonable fees for valuable things like shop space makes sense.
But a submission is not a service and should not be treated like one. A submission fee is more like a tax on hope. It’s a little moneymaking lottery: raffle-as-exhibition. The money collected from the losers allows the winners to win. It’s got bad karma written all over it, and frankly, everyone with taste (and good art to submit) eschews “opportunities” that cost a quarter of a hundred dollars.
3rd ward should rethink this policy. It makes them look bad.
Frown you should!
Taking a submissions fee is the tackiest thing an arts organization can do!
Either the organization in question is a 501c3 and is too lazy to write a freaking grant (AIM Program) or, in the case of 3rd Ward, is a for-profit who is accustomed to making money off artists and doesn’t know when to quit.
3rd ward has a great setup and offers great services to artists that are worth every penny. Charing reasonable fees for valuable things like shop space makes sense.
But a submission is not a service and should not be treated like one. A submission fee is more like a tax on hope. It’s a little moneymaking lottery: raffle-as-exhibition. The money collected from the losers allows the winners to win. It’s got bad karma written all over it, and frankly, everyone with taste (and good art to submit) eschews “opportunities” that cost a quarter of a hundred dollars.
3rd ward should rethink this policy. It makes them look bad.
Frown you should!
Taking a submissions fee is the tackiest thing an arts organization can do!
Either the organization in question is a 501c3 and is too lazy to write a freaking grant (AIM Program) or, in the case of 3rd Ward, is a for-profit who is accustomed to making money off artists and doesn’t know when to quit.
3rd ward has a great setup and offers great services to artists that are worth every penny. Charing reasonable fees for valuable things like shop space makes sense.
But a submission is not a service and should not be treated like one. A submission fee is more like a tax on hope. It’s a little moneymaking lottery: raffle-as-exhibition. The money collected from the losers allows the winners to win. It’s got bad karma written all over it, and frankly, everyone with taste (and good art to submit) eschews “opportunities” that cost a quarter of a hundred dollars.
3rd ward should rethink this policy. It makes them look bad.
I feel like it must be becoming more acceptable to charge submission fees – I see them much more frequently than I ever used to, and it doesn’t seem to automatically discredit the selection process. The thing I don’t like about the submission cost, is that while lower than others I’ve seen, in this case they haven’t revealed the panelists. Why pay to have your work reviewed when you don’t know who will be looking at it? There’s no way to know the bias of the judges, which tends to effect what you pick. That makes them look a little amateurish to me.
I feel like it must be becoming more acceptable to charge submission fees – I see them much more frequently than I ever used to, and it doesn’t seem to automatically discredit the selection process. The thing I don’t like about the submission cost, is that while lower than others I’ve seen, in this case they haven’t revealed the panelists. Why pay to have your work reviewed when you don’t know who will be looking at it? There’s no way to know the bias of the judges, which tends to effect what you pick. That makes them look a little amateurish to me.
I feel like it must be becoming more acceptable to charge submission fees – I see them much more frequently than I ever used to, and it doesn’t seem to automatically discredit the selection process. The thing I don’t like about the submission cost, is that while lower than others I’ve seen, in this case they haven’t revealed the panelists. Why pay to have your work reviewed when you don’t know who will be looking at it? There’s no way to know the bias of the judges, which tends to effect what you pick. That makes them look a little amateurish to me.
I feel like it must be becoming more acceptable to charge submission fees – I see them much more frequently than I ever used to, and it doesn’t seem to automatically discredit the selection process. The thing I don’t like about the submission cost, is that while lower than others I’ve seen, in this case they haven’t revealed the panelists. Why pay to have your work reviewed when you don’t know who will be looking at it? There’s no way to know the bias of the judges, which tends to effect what you pick. That makes them look a little amateurish to me.
Okay, I was going on and on and on, and so I decided to just write about this topic on SELLOUT today.
Okay, I was going on and on and on, and so I decided to just write about this topic on SELLOUT today.
Okay, I was going on and on and on, and so I decided to just write about this topic on SELLOUT today.
Okay, I was going on and on and on, and so I decided to just write about this topic on SELLOUT today.
i figure that the people sponsoring these call for entries need to pay the people who are doing the viewing and judging, not unless they already have a vast group of contributors who support their nonprofit org. but from the struggling artist’s point of view, if submitting artwork via mail, paying the postage and also entry fees, it can get expensive if you apply to many “calls for entry”.
i figure that the people sponsoring these call for entries need to pay the people who are doing the viewing and judging, not unless they already have a vast group of contributors who support their nonprofit org. but from the struggling artist’s point of view, if submitting artwork via mail, paying the postage and also entry fees, it can get expensive if you apply to many “calls for entry”.
i figure that the people sponsoring these call for entries need to pay the people who are doing the viewing and judging, not unless they already have a vast group of contributors who support their nonprofit org. but from the struggling artist’s point of view, if submitting artwork via mail, paying the postage and also entry fees, it can get expensive if you apply to many “calls for entry”.
Nice post, Keep it up
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