Brand New!! How To Calculate The Terms Of Entering A Juried Fine Art Exhibition

Have yous ever sat downwards in addition to actually analysed how much it really costs to go inwards a juried fine art contest or opened upward exhibition?

If yous have got in addition to thence probably, similar me, yous may have got had a flake of a shock.  Here are around of the reasons why the costs tin mountain upward without yous noticing in addition to why it tin endure thence expensive:

• you're paying entry fees AND committee on sales
• you're non submitting to a local gallery in addition to it's non a curt local drive inwards the car.  You've frequently got to larn the artwork to a identify a long agency from home. This involves packing costs in addition to shipping/travel costs which yous don't ordinarily have got to pay - frequently both ways if the piece of occupation is not accepted or doesn't sell.
• the contest isn't from your locality - it's frequently national or international in addition to there's hundreds if non thousands of people all competing to larn their artwork into the exhibition
• this exhibition is prestigious in addition to the artwork needs a frame which looks adept - in addition to unless you've worked out to proceed a grip on costs that tin endure expensive

There's solely ane thing worse than a nasty stupor afterwards you've worked through the numbers - in addition to that's a nasty stupor because yous didn't piece of occupation through the numbers!

I started working out the costs when I needed to piece of occupation out a toll for my work.  I didn't take away heed making solely a piddling coin if the piece of occupation sold - I understood that juried exhibitions are frequently much to a greater extent than close marketing in addition to edifice a next in addition to thence they are close selling per se.  However I did object to making a loss!  Bear inwards take away heed that I also don't have got the same transport/travel costs every bit other people every bit I already alive inwards London.

It actually made me commencement paying attending to pricing in addition to to the ambit to handle costs (eg buying frames which were criterion sizes rather than custom made thence that they tin endure reused amongst the mats custom made - yesteryear me).  Setting the costs out on newspaper helped me to focus on what costs could endure improve managed, what costs could endure eliminated in addition to what costs yous simply had to convey on the chin.

A spreadsheet for calculating the costs of entering a juried exhibition

I've created a spreadsheet to tending artists calculate the existent cost of entering a juried fine art contest or opened upward exhibition

A Making H5N1 Mark Guide: Analysing the cost of entering a juried fine art exhibition - is available from my website.  The spreadsheet automatically summarises costs in addition to produces overall totals in addition to internet cost or profit.

Analysing the cost of entering a juried fine art exhibition - Practice Worksheet

If yous go inwards your personal cost information (or estimates) based on sense or query - inwards the light-green column - it tells you

• the costs of entering a juried exhibition - in addition to how much you're spending on 'marketing' your piece of occupation if it doesn't sell
• the internet gain if yous sell the work 

It includes

• a proforma template (yellow tab) which yous tin tailor to your ain needs if yous know how to piece of occupation Excel.  Just re-create the whole canvass over to a novel canvass to commencement a calculation.
• a worked representative for a piece of occupation which sold (blue tab)- gives yous the internet gain on which taxes are payable
• a worked representative for a piece of occupation which did NOT sell (red tab) - to give to yous the full potential cost of 
• NOT submitting your best work 
• and/or NOT making a realistic assessment of your chances of getting piece of occupation accepted
• a do worksheet (green tab) which yous tin piece of occupation ane time to a greater extent than in addition to ane time to a greater extent than simply endure eliminating the information inwards the "enter data" column

Don't worry if yous brand a mess of it - yous tin ever download it again!

If you're used to using spreadsheets, yous should uncovering it fairly self-explanatory.  Your cost information is entered inwards the light-green column inwards the do canvass in addition to the summary costs are in addition to thence calculated automatically.

Do delight allow me know if yous have got whatever queries

Links to to a greater extent than resources for artists

• PAGES on this spider web log (see simply nether the title)
• Major U.K. Art Competitions inwards 2013
• Major U.K. Art Society Exhibitions inwards 2013
• POSTS on this blog
• 20 tips for entering fine art competitions
• Juried fine art competitions - does size matter?
• Selection, jurying in addition to must run across lists
• Making H5N1 Mark (the website) : Making H5N1 Mark Guides in addition to Publications - Making H5N1 Mark Guides , Checklists in addition to Articles (FREE to download - for personal piece of occupation solely / non for reproduction)
• Art Competitions inwards the U.K. - Resources for Artists

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