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How to Get Your Art Noticed Online – 10 Ways That Work
How to get your art noticed online is one of the most common questions independent artists ask – and one of the least straightforward to answer. There is no single strategy that works for everyone. But there are approaches that consistently make a difference, and approaches that consistently don’t. This article focuses on what actually…
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How an Artist Interview Can Grow Your Audience
Most artists spend a lot of time thinking about how to show their work. Fewer spend time thinking about how to talk about it. But the ability to articulate what you make – and why – is one of the most underused tools in an artist’s public presence. A published artist interview does both at…
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What Jurors Look For in Open Call Submissions
The selection process for a curated open call can feel like a mystery from the outside. You submit your work, you wait, and then you either hear back or you don’t. What happened in between? What was the curator actually looking at? This article opens up that process from the inside. As the curator of…
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Red Flags to Watch for in Online Open Calls
As a painter, I submit my own work to international open calls – the same way many of you reading this do. Not every experience has been a good one. I recently paid a submission fee to a platform that, on paper, promised exactly what a serious open call should: exhibition, promotion, visibility. What I…
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Why Your Art Needs a Curated Space – Not Just Instagram
Instagram has become the default portfolio for most visual artists. It’s free, it’s visual, and it’s where the audience already is. For many artists, it’s the first – and sometimes only – place they show their work online. But there’s a growing gap between what Instagram is built for and what a serious artistic presence…
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Free vs Paid Art Open Calls – What’s the Difference?
Submission fees are one of the most debated topics in the artist community. Some artists refuse to pay them on principle. Others see them as a normal part of building a professional practice. Most fall somewhere in between – unsure when a fee is reasonable and when it’s a red flag. This article breaks down…
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How to Get Featured in an Online Art Gallery
Getting featured in an online art gallery is something many artists want – and something fewer understand as well as they could. It’s not purely about having the strongest work in the submission pile. It’s about presenting that work in a way that speaks clearly to the curator and fits the context of the exhibition….
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Online Art Gallery vs Publicly Funded Art Organization – What Artists Need to Know
When artists encounter a submission fee for an online gallery open call, a common reaction is scepticism. Why should I pay to show my work? Don’t real galleries fund themselves? It is a fair question – but it rests on a misunderstanding of how different types of art spaces actually work. Publicly funded art organizations…
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How to Write an Artist Statement for an Open Call
Of all the parts of an open call submission, the artist statement is the one artists struggle with most. It’s not because they don’t have things to say about their work – it’s because putting those things into words, concisely and clearly, is genuinely difficult. But the artist statement is also one of the most…
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5 Mistakes Artists Make When Submitting to Open Calls
You found the right open call. The theme resonates. The deadline is weeks away. You submit and then you don’t hear back. It’s a familiar experience for many artists, and it’s rarely about the quality of the work itself. More often, it comes down to how the work was presented, small, fixable things that make…
