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Visual Arts Awards & Jury Procedures
Awards
During the festival, onsite jurors will select one Best of Show and as many as seven Merit Award Winners. Cash awards totaling $10,000 are awarded to the winners in these categories.
Jury Procedure
The jury session will be open to the public. We require proper
decorum during the jury process so as not to disturb the jurors. The
dates are November 14 and 15, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, at the Blackstone Hotel/Courtyard by Marriott,
601 Main Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102. The category viewing order
will be determined randomly. Round 1 is Saturday. Round 2 is Sunday.
Notification will be made by 11:00 PM on Monday, November 17.
A reception will be held the evening of Friday, November 14, for the
purpose of welcoming all visiting artists and previewing the slides to
be shown during the jury itself. This will be a non-stress environment
for viewing and networking.
A five to seven member panel will review images submitted by the
artists and rank them for consideration. Images are projected on 48" x
48" screens by state-of-the-art Dell projectors directly from digital
media. Jurors for 2009 will be announced September 1, 2008.
The identities of artists are not disclosed to jurors. Please be sure that there is no reference to your name or your company in your booth image.
The jury will review each artist’s set of images. These images, submitted by each artist through their Zapp account, are downloaded from the locked Zapp storage server directly onto Compact Flash digital media cards. These cards are transported to the jury site and plugged directly into five ROKU media computers and shown simultaneously in a horizontal grouping. We use five Dell 4100 projectors and five brite-white screens. Each image will have a final projected size of 4' x 4'.
The image information statement and image descriptions provided on the application will be made available to the jury - they are typically not read aloud. Jurors will be invited to discuss each artist’s work during the review process.
Each artist is scored by jury members on a scale of yes-no-maybe in the first round, creating a ranked group of artists in each category deemed qualified to advance to the second round. Our scoring for the second round is on a 1 - 7 scale. The top scorers in each category receive an invitation to the show.
An additional 50+ artists are retained to comprise a waiting list of alternates. Our progression from the invited list to the waiting list is based strictly upon scores received in that category.
Decisions of the jury panel will be final.
The director of the show has the right to invite up to six artists at his discretion.
Notification
Upon completion of our jury, we will send emails after 11:00 PM on November 17 to all artists letting them know of their status. Contracts will also be available at that time, along with a link to our online Artist's Guide.
The status of each artist will also be posted to his or her Zapplication account. We will not send letters - all communication will be by email.
Invited artists, along with their selected images and contact information, will be posted to the MAIN ST. website.