February 9, 2017
ArtFields® 2017 Portrait Contest
Applications for the ArtFields 2017 Portrait Contest are now open! Southeastern artists are encouraged to submit, including ArtFields 2017 Competition Artists. There is a $35 submission fee. Apply here through March 15, 2017. For questions, call Holly Shady at 843-374-0180.
Please email app to me. It won’t open. Is this the live paint it while you are there event?
Lisa,
Please submit your application at https://artfields.slideroom.com
Please email [email protected] for any further questions.
Thanks!
I entered two [2] years and never received a reason for the cancelation of my entry. You kept the money?
My work received an A+ at Coker College. What are the credentials of your Judgement? Looks like a scam?
Sam Thomas
Sam,
If you have any specific questions, please email [email protected] or call 843-374-0180 directly. When you submitted, you paid a non-refundable submission fee. Every submission is judged and based on the ratings is either accepted into the competition or not accepted. That means you are not guaranteed acceptance upon submitting. The Portrait Contest has been a successful opportunity for artists since year one and is far from being a scam. Please give us a call with any further questions.
Sam:
Just to let you know…yours isn’t a professional attitude for a burgeoning young artist to cultivate. I’m telling you this so that next time you can have a better grasp of your emotions and try to judge your future entries with a little objectivity. You wouldn’t know this as a student, but there are many, many successful portrait artists that submit work to this and other shows. Many of these artists make a living painting portraits, say to the tune of $10,000 per portrait, and have been doing that for years. I suggest that you ask some of your previous professors at Coker how they select the shows that they enter, as well.
I think that you should try this agenda out: Look around online at some shows, and look at what artwork won the categories of the year before. Then you get a list of the judges that judged the show. Next, you look for those judges that chose comparable work to yours, and submit work to those shows. That is the “calculated” way to start submitting work for shows if you are looking to win. I know this because this is what one of my professors told me.
Good luck,
Jean McCormick
Educator in SC
Thank you Jean! We certainly appreciate your response!
This note is for Jean Mccormick. Jean, you misread my thoughts in the previous note. According to your note I am a young student just getting started. Just to let you know, I am going on 82 years old and don’t need to take criticism from a young whippersnapper like yourself. The lack of emotions as you claim are totally in my grasp I know all about math and politics. Your preaching is too much. I dropped Art as a profession because I didn’t want to be a poor Artist not because all Artist are poor, but History shows the most famous died broke. You are an Educator in SC? Good luck.
Sam Thomas
Retired in SC
Jean, i’m undecided whether to even add this, but, i will. To help confirm my story, Mrs D R Coker, heard I was a good artist and paid the fee for my art course at Coker.