Posted By venita on June 5, 2008

This must be the season for submissions.  As this is my first time really doing them at this level, it is a touch overwhelming.  In April I submitted entries into the Castro Street Fair and the Girls Inc. of Santa Fe’s Arts & Crafts Show (Santa Fe, New Mexico).  And due to Laurie Zuckerman’s encouragement, last Friday I submitted an entry into the Fort Collin’s Rocky Mountain Biennial as well. 

 

I had stopped by FCMOMA the previous Sunday to get more details and discovered they were closed.  I knew the deadline was fast approaching.  So, I thought I should give it another shot and stop in last Friday.  A very nice intern spoke with me and indicated the entries were due by 6 pm that evening.  Which I thought, I don’t have a prayer of pulling a CD together and my form.  But, I went on and started signing up to be a member at the museum, which allows you to submit up to 6 works in the biennial.  As I was doing the paperwork, one of the staff stopped by and said “we have a new member joining, that’s great!”  And the intern said “yes she is joining the museum and going to be entering into the Biennial today.”  Well with that, I thought I better get home build a CD and pull together the entry, so I could be included in the jury process.  Here is one of the pieces I submitted. 

 

Isn’t it fascinating how when people put it out there, you either don’t want to let them down or more importantly let yourself down?  So, I headed straight home and created a CD, wrote up my entry and packed the kids up in the car.  Then I dropped Mr. Jordan at gymnastics and took sleeping Olivia on to the museum, where we dropped off my entry.  I submitted five works on the CD.  With hind site, I should have included multiple shots of each image.  I will need to remember that for my next submission, due this Saturday for the emerging artist competition. 

 

I will find out the week after the 4^th of July, if any of my work will make it into the show in October.  If it does, it will be only the second time I will have been exhibited in a museum (with the first being the Loveland Art Museum in 2003). 

 

Right now, I know I am in the Santa Fe show, I am hopeful about the Castro Street Fair, and I will see how it goes with the biennial and the subsequent three additional shows I will be applying for.  No matter what happens, it is all good.

Category: mixed media, Shows
Tags: art shows, collage, Our Lady Guadalupe, Religious, Vintage, wood