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The Art Opportunities Book: Finding, Entering and Winning, a workbook to help you get into the juried art shows you should be in and get the grants and residencies you deserve

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Discover how to

Find the right opportunities
Clarify your goals
Determine the your best sources of support
Make slides that get you in
See you work as a juror would see it
Increase your chances of winning a cash award
Write a public art or grant proposal
Avoid being shut out
Turn shows into sales

Learn insiders' tips on

Juried shows
Fairs, festivals and special events
Film and video festivals
University shows
Residencies
Grants and fellowships
Self-created grants
Public art commissions
Wildlife stamps
Postage stamps
Membership organizations
Artists' guilds
Record keeping
Artists' directories
The jury process
What to do if you are rejected
How to leverage your acceptances

Plus

Questionnaires and work boxes to help you discover your goals, find where your work belongs, set your priorities and more.

35 images by artists who have won grants, fellowships, "best of show," purchase prizes, public art commissions, residencies and whose work is in important galleries and museums.

Includes an appendix with

An explanation of mail art
Laws allowing artists to sell work in public
Lists of membership organizations
Worksheets for tracking upcoming shows, tracking your work, figuring costs and more.

This 123-page wire-bound 8 1/2 x 11" workbook is only $17.95 plus shipping and handling. Order your copy today and it will be inscribed to you by the author. Also see the order page for special bargains.

Each year, artists waste millions of dollars and thousands of hours because they don't know the secrets professionals know. Because they don't do things right, they don't get into the good shows that they should have gotten into. And won prizes for. And sold their art from.

Grants and fellowships that should have been theirs go to artists whose work isn't as good. And so on.

In addition, thousands of artists fall victim to scams and fly-by-night operations that promise the chance to show and sell their art but deliver only heartache along with a canceled check. And a lot of times good artists don't even know about the best shows or other art opportunities until it is too late.

But there is no point in being on the wrong side of things any longer.

The Art Opportunities Book will show you how to avoid pitfalls, save money and increase your chances of success. It is written by Benny Shaboy, the founding editor/publisher of studioNOTES and Art Opportunities Monthly, with extensive assistance from more than three dozen artists, jurors, curators and other artworld insiders.

The Art Opportunities Book can't guarantee fame and fortune, but it can and does guarantee that if you follow the steps in it you will significantly increase your chances of:

Finding the shows or other art opportunities that are just right for you
Being accepted into them
Winning a prize
Getting a grant, fellowship, or residency
Selling work from or after a show
Landing a public art commission of up to $1,000,000

You will learn how to spot -- or even create -- opportunities and how to best prepare for them. You will learn what jurors are looking for, how to take slides that will mean the difference between failure and success, how to avoid the mistakes that completely ruin your chances and how to spot the scams that cost artists millions of dollars every year.

Any one of these things would be worth the price of the book, but you get them all and much, much more. See the Table of Contents for an overview and read actual excerpts from the book, such as Getting Ready, More Tips on Slides, The Jury Process and Membership Organizations.

There is a lot of info, in simple language, for beginners, but there is a lot of meat in it for the experienced artist as well. Every artist should have it. --Verity Dierauf, artist and art professor, San Francisco

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Last updated August 29, 2007

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