Anatomy of a Call to Artists
plus the Art in the Round Contest

Digital Recording of this In-Depth Class
Duration: 60 minutes

Martha Wooldridge is the owner of BeautifulBowls.com, a creative meeting spot for artists, collectors, businesses, and art enthusiasts. In her mid-forties, Martha was ready to move away from the typical 8-5 job. Sound familiar?

She decided to create a situation that gave her the freedom to put her artistic, organizational, and business skills to their best use.

The result was BeautifulBowls.com – “the common bowl transformed into uncommon art”. The online gallery features fine craft vessels in a variety of media created by professional and emerging U.S. artists. You can find the Blog here: http://artintheround.wordpress.com.


BeautifulBowls.com hosts the 2008 Art in the Round Contest, a publicly juried online competition creating visibility and opportunity for fine craft artists.

Cash awards can be a big boost, especially during a slow economy. But don’t forget the importance of visibility. Art competitions are valuable advertising that helps attract the public, jurors, and gallerists to view your work.

From the Watercolor Artist Blog Watercolor USA 2008, the 47th national, competitive exhibition of aqueous media painting, at the Springfield Art Museum in Missouri.

“The competition received 674 entries by 369 artists from 42 states. This year's judge was Debra Loomis Tayes, Associate Curator of Fine Art, Southern Illinois Art Gallery, Illinois State Museum. Tayes selected 121 works by 109 artists for the exhibition. 'My criterion for selecting the paintings to be awarded was simple,"'she says. 'Was the painting engaging, dynamic, or even magnetic? Did I find myself going back to the piece again and again, even intuitively? Were the visual complexities articulated well? Was there a curiosity in the content? Were the techniques used eclipsed by the beauty of the medium?' (All good questions to consider as you prepare your work for competition season.)”

And check out the companion call The Ins and Outs of Juried Shows with A.C.T. Art Business Mentor Pat Fiorello.

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