Having a long gap of inactivity making art? How does one set out to get back to the art scene, creating passionate art and trying to get one's art displayed at galleries or art fairs? Well, for me, that's exactly the situation, things can look pretty daunting outright when I have already created a decent body of work but are just beginning to look for outlet and to gather a new audience. For one, I don't have a long track of exhibits or any related history in the gallery experience, since I have a full-time work and an online ecommerce to tend to, life is busy enough but still there is always a voice inside telling me, why not just give it a freaking try?
Well, after spending quit sometime online searching and looking for outlets to exhibit my digital artworks, I ran into various interesting sites, places and book that I think might be pretty helpful to any new or relatively unknown artist like me starting out seeking to displaying his or her arts, and here is the list that I came across -
Craigslist.org
http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites
You can find both locally/domestic and internal listings of many galleries soliciting new emerging and mid-established artists for art submissions. I find it quit useful and that's how I got started in exhibiting my works. But beware galleries that ask for payment for displaying your work up front, you want to avoid those. I know most of the gallery art submissions required small sum of entry fee, but if a gallery ask you to pay up hundreds or thousands just to show your art in their gallery, run.
Artshow.com
http://www.artshow.com/juriedshows/
This site has some decent listings of possible juried shows and art competitions across well, mostly in US. You can check out their deadline time and requirements before submitting your work. Some are quite far geographically so you might have to pack and ship your art. I personally recommend front starting out the gate to just participate exhibits that are close by your city, and establish your visibility locally first.
California Arts Council
http://www.cac.ca.gov/artistcall/
Search the term "call for artists" and the first thing that came up for me was a site from California Arts Council. It has a nice list of artist submissions with dates, where to file your application(s), types of artwork seeking, and what city. This site includes not only California state but other states as well. I still have to find time to comb through the directory. Be sure to check all the requirements and read all the small types before jumping on their submission train.
2011 Artist's and Graphic Designer's Market
(Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market)
Priced around $21.50 retail, this book has many useful gallery listings for art submission, including guidelines, specifically what to send, terms and how to approach different galleries for your work. It also has sections for photographers, graphic designers, illustrators and sculptors and offer many nice tips for artists. I highly recommend this book to anyone setting out to submit his or her art. You can probably find this book on Amazon or in Barnes & Noble bookstore around your neighborhood.
OK, there you have it, it isn't a comprehensive list by any mean, but a good starting point. I recommend that you visit each one of the gallery that you are submitting to and check out their current or paste exhibits first, make sure they somewhat match your style of work, it's just a common sense approach. Well, I wish you and me plenty of luck and I want you to be recognized soon so you can come back and tell me all about it…….Oh, BTW, if you have a great supplemental listing please share with us here too!!!
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