{"id":191,"date":"2015-01-29T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vrdesignz.wordpress.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2017-06-07T21:47:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T21:47:52","slug":"juried-shows-are-they-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/juried-shows-are-they-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Juried Shows? Are They Worth It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I get a lot of posts for Juried Art Shows that are held throughout the country. \u00a0Some are free to enter but most of them you must pay in order to submit paintings and enter the competition. \u00a0The costs can range anywhere from $5 to over $25 per image. \u00a0So it can become costly if that is an avenue that an artist is going to use in order to compete.<\/p>\n

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Professional Artist Month Contest 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although every artist is probably expected to enter these shows, in my mind it can be a huge waste of time and money. \u00a0It may look good on your resume, but only if you win a competition and then, the glory is only fleeting. \u00a0You have your 15 minutes of fame and then it’s gone, even in such publications as “The Artist’s Magazine<\/em>” or “Professional Artist<\/em>“. \u00a0It seems that the competitions that are won in these forums are either completely abstract or hyper-realistic paintings. \u00a0The winners are usually those who are already successful full-time artists with many years of experience. \u00a0It’s no wonder they win these competitions. \u00a0It’s an uphill battle for those just beginning their careers (especially if mostly self-taught). \u00a0The fees paid by lesser known artists go right into the pocket of the full-time professional artists and the organization that sponsored the competition.<\/p>\n

I have entered many juried shows and was once a finalist for my painting “The Boyz<\/a>” (second row, third from left in above image) in Professional Artists Magazine<\/em> Contest<\/a>. \u00a0It was an honor, but as you can see it is mainly realists’ art. \u00a0I do prefer realism over abstract but I also like a painting to be a painting and not hyper-realistic. \u00a0I admire those artists that are able to do hyperrealism, but they also have the benefit of many years of school with world renown professionals. \u00a0I was never able to\u00a0afford that type of schooling, even the workshops are too costly for me to attend at the moment.<\/p>\n

So for me, I choose to enter free shows when I can find them and will try to keep it local in order to avoid shipping charges. \u00a0Maybe one day I’ll have my 15 minutes of fame in one of the magazines but I won’t be holding my breath nor my brush waiting for recognition. \u00a0I’ll make my own path for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I get a lot of posts for Juried Art Shows that are held throughout the country. \u00a0Some are free to enter but most of them you must pay in order to submit paintings and enter the competition. \u00a0The costs can range anywhere from $5 to over $25 per image. \u00a0So it can become costly if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-show","category-juried-competition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}