For the past couple of months, I have been watching Eric Rhoads every day at noon on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/eric.rhoads) . He is an art marketer, publisher of art magazines and organizer of art conferences. With the Covid-19 pandemic shutting down pretty much all of his upcoming conferences, he turned to doing these live broadcasts every day at noon. He is a wealth of marketing knowledge, specifically applied to artists. A few weeks ago he was talking about art competitions. I have entered a few, but never got very far. As they don't give you feedback other than the standard "Thank you for your submission but..." I am always wondering if my art is good enough...
Anyway, Eric was recommending that we enter all the competitions that we could, even resubmitting the same work to the same competition year after year, as the judges would likely change and you never know what one might see that the others didn't. What really got my attention was when he said the entry fee (participation is rarely free) was basically part of your marketing budget. I had never thought of it that way, so I decided to try participating in more competitions, starting off with two that very week. I even made a nice spreadsheet to keep track of my efforts! You guessed it, I received a message from the first one, which is an international online exhibition, informing me that I had been selected!! It is called Exhibizone Summer 2020, and it will run from August 20 to September 20, 2020 ! I will post a link to it when it opens! Maybe I will have a virtual vernissage? ..... Which gives me an idea for an upcoming blog post! See you then! UPDATE: Here is the link: https://www.biafarin.com/p/exhibizone2020summer.html
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