Comments on: Showing Your Work: choosing venues https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2019/05/showing-your-work-choosing-venues/ find joy, be inspired, create beauty Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:17:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Patti Maxwell https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2019/05/showing-your-work-choosing-venues/#comment-339141 Mon, 20 May 2019 02:21:07 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/blog/?p=94#comment-339141 Wow! If I were an artist the last three posts would have been extremely helpful. Even without any personal application I found them extremely interesting. Thanks!

]]> By: lyric https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2019/05/showing-your-work-choosing-venues/#comment-495 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:32:16 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/blog/?p=94#comment-495 Hi Kyra – The one artist I know who has done this is Virginia Spiegel.
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/987247
Her book is lovely!

]]> By: Kyra https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2019/05/showing-your-work-choosing-venues/#comment-494 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:17:24 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/blog/?p=94#comment-494 Lyric, Thanks for the post. I wonder if the accessibility and affordability for print on demand will translate into more art quilters promoting their work in book form – e.g., via self-published catalogs of their work.

Are you familiar with other art quilters taking this route?

Best, Kyra
http://publishyourquilts.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Gloria https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2019/05/showing-your-work-choosing-venues/#comment-493 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:34:35 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/blog/?p=94#comment-493 Very provocative.

I'm grateful for some of the cash awards I've received. Otherwise, the show fees add up very fast, and I realistically don't know how much I would continue to spend. I now enter only certain shows throughout the year anyway. I continue to be grateful if my work is accepted and thus have the opportunity for some exposure.

]]> By: lynne https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2019/05/showing-your-work-choosing-venues/#comment-492 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:55:47 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/blog/?p=94#comment-492 For listings of fiber art competitions try this blog Fiber Art Calls for Entry http://bit.ly/5GPoEL

]]> By: lyric https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2019/05/showing-your-work-choosing-venues/#comment-491 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:22:02 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/blog/?p=94#comment-491 Ah – but Janice, I've tried hard to make the information easier to find!
http://www.lyrickinard.com/enter_shows.html

those are the art-quilt shows.

Art Calendar and many other places have long lists of fine art calls for entry.

]]> By: Janice Paine-Dawes https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2019/05/showing-your-work-choosing-venues/#comment-490 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:19:09 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/blog/?p=94#comment-490 Great breakdown. Since most art quilters started as traditionalists we think of quilt shows with art categories. I loaned a piece to a museum for a themed 3 month long exhibit. Loved seeing my work in that setting so I'm hooked on anything other than a quilt show. Finding those exhibits is a battle, though.

]]> By: lyric https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2019/05/showing-your-work-choosing-venues/#comment-489 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:23:49 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/blog/?p=94#comment-489 Robin – I feel so warm and happy! Thanks so much for the sunshine!!!

Lynne – the "virgin quilt" rule is definitely one to watch out for. My pet peeve is the "expiration date" – as though art is no good any more once it is three years old.

Ferret – do you make large work? If you make smaller work perhaps frame it or mount it on a stretched canvas and call it "mixed media" to fool them.

Either way – I think it's good for our work to be seen, one way or another. I think part of my reason for entering is also the chance for a ribbon or prize. I LIKE getting a little "attagirl" now and then. Motherhood doesn't give you those very often.

]]> By: Ferret https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2019/05/showing-your-work-choosing-venues/#comment-488 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:23:20 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/blog/?p=94#comment-488 I have had no luck in London and the surrounding area suggesting that a quilt can be fine art. Art experts here insist textiles are not and cannot be fine art. If I want to show my work it has to be quilt shows, with all the problems that entails. However it does provide great advertising for all the quilting service I offer.

]]> By: lynne https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2019/05/showing-your-work-choosing-venues/#comment-487 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:13:23 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/blog/?p=94#comment-487 Great topic!

I find competitions and shows offer a way to reach a broad audience very quickly, build your resume and meet other textile artists.

I enter 2-3 competitions a year. This helps me focus my creativity and hone my skills. I am addicted to them and am always seeking out ones that fit my artistic medium.

The Cons:
Some competitions *require* that the entry not be published or blogged. Make sure you know the specific rules before you enter. This is has been a discussion about convergence 2010 entries.

When you enter, the competition has the rights to publish your submission images for their media relations. This can result in your entry *not* winning, but being published. Thus removing your entry from any further competitions. Beware of this!

Only enter reputable shows and competitions. Check with other artists that entries are returned in a timely manner and that their artwork is not damaged. Its devastating to loose your creations due to a poorly managed event. Always always check.

When sending your entries – insure your packages, require delivery signature and confirm their arrival.

Okay – now off to work on my entry for FAN. 🙂

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