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The Touched By Fire website is open to all artists, professional or amateur, who have or are recovering from a mood disorder. You can choose to upload artwork for sale or show to the website, and you can also choose to have the artwork you contribute to this website considered for inclusion in the Gallery Exhibition to be held on November 25th 2010 at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Deadline for entries is September 17th, 2010.
To contribute your artwork to this website, please read the following information, and click here to go to the registration page for artists.
Things to know about submitting your work onto this website
1. You can submit original art works in oil, watercolour, latex, acrylic, drawings, or mixed-media
2. You can submit photographic images in black-and-white or colour, and photo-based images
3. This site can display up to 10 images of your work, so if you only have a few you can send them in now and add more later as you build your portfolio. If you have many pieces, pick your best and send them in. Change the pieces you choose to display over time so there's fresh content on the website.
4. You can login to make occasional changes to your profile, updates to your information and artwork. However, all changes must be approved by our administrator's before they are displayed, so please be patient with any delays as our volunteers manage the website.
What should I know about the sale and pricing of my artwork?
All works of art included in the Touched By Fire website will be offered for sale, unless otherwise specified by the submitting artist. The artist is free to select the pricing level for his/her work of art. Please bear in mind, however, that price affects likelihood of sale, and that works by previously unexhibited artists will probably, despite their excellence, command lower prices
Rights of the artists and Touched by Fire
You, the artist, retain all copyrights to which you are entitled. However, Touched By Fire reserves the nonexclusive rights to publish, reproduce, display, distribute, and show the art without added permission from you. (After all, showing your art is the purpose of the program!)
To submit your entry for this year’s Touched By Fire Art Show and Exhibit (Gallery Exhibition on November 25th, 2010 at the Royal Ontario Museum) please read the following information:
The Touched By Fire Art Show and Exhibit is open to all artists, professional or amateur, who have or are recovering from a mood disorder. Pieces selected by our judges will be displayed at our Gallery show.
Help MDAO Keep The Fires Burning
This year, in an attempt to keep the fire burning and raise much needed funds to allow us to continue Touched By Fire, we are inviting all artists, whether you are chosen for the show or not, to donate a small work of art, 10" x 10" or less, to MDAO so that we can display and sell these various works at the show on November 25th with the proceeds going to MDAO.
Please drop off or mail your donated works to MDAO's office at 36 Eglinton Ave West, Suite 602 by October 29th. You will receive a tax receipt in the amount of $25 for your donation. Thank you for your support!
Frequently Asked Questions
What can be entered into the Gallery Exhibition?
1. Original art works in oil, watercolour, latex, acrylic, drawings, or mixed-media
2. Photographic images in black-and-white or colour, and photo-based images
3. Please limit your submissions to 3 works per category, and entries may not exceed 2400 square inches (40x60, 30x80, etc.) in their actual non-digitized form. We regret that other categories of art – sculpture, ceramics, and so forth – are not yet eligible. We hope to expand our categories in the years to come.
When you can enter the Gallery Exhibition?
1. Entries for the Gallery Show are due by September 17, 2010. We must restrict entries to two-dimensional art (paintings, drawings, etc.) executed in any medium; as well as photography.
How do I register/submit artwork to the Gallery Exhibition?
1. You fill out an artist's profile here on this website to register for the Gallery Exhibition.
2. When you login to register as an artist and are uploading artwork to the website, you can select whether you'd like your work to be considered for the Gallery Show.
Please note that artwork under consideration for the Gallery Show will not be displayed on the website until the judging process is completed - the unveiling of the selected pieces will happen live at the Gallery Show at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum in November, 2010.
3. The results of the competition for the Gallery Show will be sent to the email you enter as your contact when you register with this website.
4. All artwork entered for the Gallery Show will be exhibited online on this website once the judging process is complete.
5. If you already have work displayed on this site, you can designate some of your work to the competition for the Gallery show. If you are new to this website, you can submit work to be displayed on this site at the same time you enter work for the Gallery Show.
We reserve the right to refuse to display any entries, especially those that might be deemed inappropriate for the general public, on the Touched By Fire website or the Gallery Show.
We may also contact you by telephone, e-mail, or otherwise, to confirm any details involved in your entry.
How do I upload my work to this website for the Gallery Exhibition?
1. Submissions to this website and to the Gallery Show must be electronic. Please make a digital image of your art, not exceeding 150 dpi and 350 kb in size (your local camera store can help), but also larger than 300 by 300 pixels.
2. Use the login page to submit your work and fill out our information sheet for use on the site. If you are new to this site, setup your profile information first. Complete the contact information (which the site administrator's need to contact you, but you can choose to keep private from general display on the site) and 100 words or so on how your mood disorder interacts with your creative work.
3. Go to the 'upload new artworks" area. Add new art for the Gallery Show or select some of your existing work for display. Select to 'submit this work to judges.' Review the details and confirm. You can't alter your submission once it's made.
Where can I go for help?
Email us at entries@touchedbyfire.ca or call 1-888-486-8236 ext. 224.
And finally...
The Touched By Fire Art Show and Exhibition is for you, to celebrate yourself and your art. If you need help with digitizing your work, please call on us. If there’s something else that’s making you hesitate, get in touch with us or with a friend. But enter, please. Do enter. You’re good – and we want the world to know it. |
