Jean Lehman on thu 11 apr 02
Since the SFPN thread is still alive, I will tell a short story about
someone who was accepted to this year's SFPN. She emailed me to say that
she never gets into these shows, was happy to be accepted but had a
problem. She had applied to TWO shows that overlap each other, and got into
both! So, the piece that Troy had accepted was already at the other show.
Her question was: "I have another very similar piece. Can I send it?" I
sent her email on to Jack, and his answer was an unequivocal NO!
Occasionally people break a piece, etc. etc. and I will ask the juror. It
depends. Someone had the pieces she entered one year on her mantle, and
then an earthquake came one day (verifiable, it was in the news...) and one
of them fell off. When the acceptance came, of course the accepted one was
the one that fell and broke. In that case, the juror said OK, send the
other piece.
I am not saying for you to get more creative with your stories!! I am
saying that we need to be careful. Every year (including this one) someone
calls and says "I broke the pot" or "I sold the pot and it is gone." This
sounds like a stupid thing to have to say, but be careful with the ones you
enter. Put them in a safe place where they can't be sold or broken.
Every year someone will send a different piece than the one that was juried
in. I suppose they hope no one will notice. One year we happened to pick a
piece to feature in our publicity. We pick them before the pieces arrive,
before the awards, early in the game. We select something that will look
good on the postcard, cover of the catalog or poster. Well, one year THAT
person's entry arrived, and was a different piece -- one of much less
quality than the one juried in. The juror saw it and said "Oh my, this will
not do." The juror asked me to put a disclaimer on the piece saying "This
is not the piece juried into the show." I did that, and also placed the
slide next to the disclaimer. People looked at the piece, looked at the
slide, shook their heads, etc. The irony of this is that the artist came to
the opening, saw the disclaimer, and came to me in tears. She asked why we
would do this to her. I asked her why she had sent a different piece. She
said the first one had cracked IN THE KILN!!! My sympathy vanished, and I
asked her why she had photographed a piece she knew she couldn't display.
She said "It was so nice on the other side, I decided to enter it."
DUH, indeed.
Meanwhile many pieces have arrived already. I can hardly wait until we
begin opening the boxes next week!
Best wishes,
Jean
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Dannon Rhudy on thu 11 apr 02
At 11:36 AM 4/11/02 -0400, you wrote:
>.....a short story about
>someone who was accepted to this year's SFPN.
.... She had applied to TWO shows that overlap each other, and got into
>both! So, the piece that Troy had accepted was already at the other show.
>Her question was: "I have another very similar piece. Can I send it?" I
>sent her email on to Jack, and his answer was an unequivocal NO!......
This has happened on several occasions with Ceramics USA, and
other exhibitions, too. If the juror is there I will ask what
they want done. If the juror is NOT there, I disqualify the
piece. Entry blanks state clearly that pieces can't be substituted,
and that the slide should represent the piece honestly. They
don't, always, thus the disclaimer.
In the very first Ceramics USA a piece arrived broken, strictly
the fault of the packer. We called the artist to tell them that
the piece could not be in the show. He tried to bully the
secretary into fixing it, and then called me and demanded that
I ask the juror (Val Cushing) to "repair it" because it just
needed a "little glue" and he wanted the line on his resume.
I declined. He screamed. Waste of his time, but I was surprised.
Now I no longer am surprised at much that happens
in/around exhibitions. Keeps life interesting.
regards
Dannon Rhudy
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