UPCOMING
EVENTS
July 10-11, 2010
31st Annual
Art Fair OFF
the Square
November 13-14, 2010
21st Annual
Winter Art Festival
Going Digital
Beginning with 2010, WAAC will be requiring digital images for jury submissions. Stay tuned...it won’t be difficult!
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Every
year in our
Art Fair Off the Square
survey, someone
makes a wonderful
suggestion:“Why don’t we put
a banner across
Martin Luther King
Jr. Boulevard, so
people on the
Square will be able
to find our fair?”
As the photo below
shows, we actually did
that, beginning in 1982 and for a
number of years after,
when the fair expanded to
the street.
A friend of graphic artist
and then-WAAC
president, Bob Giese,
worked for Complete
Channel TV—now
Charter Communication—
and he used their cherry
picker to hang the banner.
It was great! However, in
about 1988 a banner
hanging over State Street
came down in the wind,
bringing a street light with
it. The light narrowly
missed hitting and, most
likely, killing a pedestrian.
The Madison City Council
outlawed street banners,
so our banner was a
victim as well.
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A photo from 1984 showing the Art Fair Off the
Square
banner
over,what
was then, Monona Avenue, and is now, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard |
Jury News
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As exhibiting artists, we are all
familiar with the fact that event
juries have been slowly, but
consistently, moving away from
photographic slides to digital
images. |
This change was
brought about when
Kodak announced in
2004 that they would cease production of slide projectors. WAAC has been monitoring
this change and has
been surveying members at our events the
last few years to get a feel for how many
artists are converting to digital images. In
2008 our survey showed that over 50% of
members exhibiting at our events had converted to digital and were applying to fairs which required digital images.
This spring the WAAC Board established a
sub-committee to look into the possibility
of converting from slides to digital images
for the jury process. Members of the
committee include Mike Bailey (Board
Representative and Committee Chair), Steve Siehr (Jury Chair), Beth Ann Hamilton (former Executive Director of
WAAC), and Clarence Cameron
(Webmaster). The sub-committee met and researched the subject of digital juries including Zapplication, Juried Art Services,
and the potential of producing the digital
jury in-house. The committee reported their
findings at the September Board Meeting and the decision was made to convert to a digital jury format for 2010 events.
WAAC applications for the 2010 Art Fair
Off the Square and the Winter Art Festival
will ask that you submit digital images for
the jury process. The rule concerning rejurying every third year remains the same for artists who are currently exhibiting.
Therefore, if it is your turn to re-jury next
year we will ask that you send digital
images instead of slides along with your completed application. Those artists who are not required to jury next year need do
nothing at this time.
Our goals in converting to a digital jury include:
1. Retain as much from the current process
as possible. The jurors will continue to
work together as a group to view the images submitted. The process will still be anonymous and jury scoring will
remain the same.
2. Ensure that digital image quality is
comparable to slides. Images will still be projected but using video projectors rather than slide projectors. Projection
format will be 2 over 2 with the display (booth) image to the right of the work images.
3. Control escalating jury costs and unintended impacts to artists who wish to apply to WAAC events. Zapplication
has become a default standard in the
digital jury process with over 300 shows
under contract. WAAC will use the same
requirements as Zapp and accept images
which have been formatted to Zapp specifications. However, to keep costs down WAAC will not contract with Zapp to process applications. Artists
applying will continue to mail their applications directly to WAAC along with a CD that includes their 5 digital images.
4. Continue to provide public viewing of the jury images in the evening for members and others. (WAAC will suspend this viewing temporarily until
all new process issues are resolved.)
5. Provide help to artists who have not yet
converted to digital images. Any artist
who needs their images scanned into a digital format in order to apply should send in their current slide set. For a
reasonable fee, WAAC will take your slides and convert them to digital for the 2010 jury year.
2010 WAAC Image Requirements
Image Specifications: (the same as images that
have been prepared for Zapplication)
1. File Format: Save as Baseline Standard JPEG. Do not save as Progressive JPEG.
2. File Size: Should be approximately 2 MB.
3. Color Space: Save images in RGB color space, preferably sRGB.
4. Dimensions: 1920 pixels high by 1920 pixels wide.
5. Label/Name:
LastName-booth.jpg, LastNameimage1. jpg, LastName-image2.jpg, etc
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Your five images should be burned onto a
compact disk (CD) and sent with your
application. These specifications along with
all other requirements can be found on the
2010 applications. For more information on jurying or on digital slide preparation, see www.artcraftwis.org/Resources.html. |
DIGITAL WORKSHOP |
Larry Sanders, well-known photographer for artists and their art, will be conducting a digital workshop, FREE to WAAC members. Other artists may attend for $35, which includes a one-year membership in WAAC.
DATE: Saturday, February 13, 2010
TIME: 11 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
(Participants may bring their own lunch or eat pizza during the 1:00 to 1:30 lunch break)
There will be a question and answer session from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: Monona Public Library
1000 Nichols Road in Monona. For directions go to Google Maps or call the library at 608-222-612
Please RSVP to WAAC
or telephone 608-204-9129 no later than February 1st
The workshop is free to all WAAC members. Non-members are welcome for a $35 fee, which will include a 1-year membership in WAAC.
Please RSVP so we can do seating arrangements and order enough pizza. Don't forget notebook and pen.
Please feel free to call me if you have any further questions.
Hope to see you there! |
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WAAC has a blog! Posted in this blog are events and other opportunities for Wisconsin artists that have come to the attention of our office. Our policy is to mention each of these items (at the WAAC Executive Director's discretion) once per year in the order in which they are received. Any follow-up inquiry should be directed to the event organizer, not to WAAC. Publication of these events and opportunities does not imply endorsement by Wisconsin Alliance of Artists and Craftspeople, Inc.
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(to return here, there is a link at the top of the
green box on
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