How To Calculate The Toll Of Entering A Juried Fine Art Exhibition

Have yous ever sat downward together with actually analysed how much it really costs to larn inwards a juried fine art contest or opened upwards exhibition?

If yous have got together with hence probably, similar me, yous may have got had a chip of a shock.  Here are closed to of the reasons why the costs tin flame mountain upwards without yous noticing together with why it tin flame go hence expensive:

• you're paying entry fees AND committee on sales
• you're non submitting to a local gallery together with 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 together with shipping/travel costs which yous don't usually have got to pay - frequently both ways if the piece of job is not accepted or doesn't sell.
• the contest isn't from your locality - it's frequently national or international together with there's hundreds if non thousands of people all competing to larn their artwork into the exhibition
• this exhibition is prestigious together with the artwork needs a frame which looks proficient - together with unless you've worked out to decease along a handgrip on costs that tin flame go expensive

There's solely ane thing worse than a nasty daze subsequently you've worked through the numbers - together with that's a nasty daze because yous didn't piece of job through the numbers!

I started working out the costs when I needed to piece of job out a cost for my work.  I didn't hear making solely a piffling coin if the piece of job sold - I understood that juried exhibitions are frequently much to a greater extent than close marketing together with edifice a next together with hence they are close selling per se.  However I did object to making a loss!  Bear inwards hear 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 kickoff paying attending to pricing together with to the reach to deal costs (eg buying frames which were measure sizes rather than custom made hence that they tin flame go reused amongst the mats custom made - yesteryear me).  Setting the costs out on newspaper helped me to focus on what costs could go meliorate managed, what costs could go eliminated together with what costs yous only had to bring on the chin.

A spreadsheet for calculating the costs of entering a juried exhibition

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

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

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

If yous larn inwards your personal cost information (or estimates) based on sense or inquiry - inwards the greenish column - it tells you

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

It includes

• a proforma template (yellow tab) which yous tin flame tailor to your ain needs if yous know how to piece of job Excel.  Just re-create the whole canvas over to a novel canvas to kickoff a calculation.
• a worked representative for a piece of job which sold (blue tab)- gives yous the internet gain on which taxes are payable
• a worked representative for a piece of job 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 job accepted
• a exercise worksheet (green tab) which yous tin flame piece of job ane time to a greater extent than together with ane time to a greater extent than only go eliminating the information inwards the "enter data" column

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

If you're used to using spreadsheets, yous should discovery it fairly self-explanatory.  Your cost information is entered inwards the greenish column inwards the exercise canvas together with the summary costs are together with hence calculated automatically.

Do delight allow me know if yous have got whatever queries

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Links to to a greater extent than resources for artists

• PAGES on this weblog (see only nether the title)
• Major Great Britain Art Competitions
• UK Art Societies: Open Exhibitions
• POSTS on this blog
• 20 tips for entering fine art competitions
• Juried fine art competitions - does size matter?
• Selection, jurying together with must encounter lists
• Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark (the website) : Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Guides together with Publications - Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Guides , Checklists together with Articles (FREE to download - for personal piece of job solely / non for reproduction)

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