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THE WILD CARD

We have added the opportunity for a Wild Card artwork submission.

Submitting a Wild Card piece is completely optional.

In addition to all your pieces that qualify for submission for the Group Online Exhibit, you may submit one additional piece of artwork (by Sunday, 11/8, 12 pm PT) that was completed during the CAC program and that was never submitted for critique.

Perhaps you feel you've hit your stride recently, and you'd like to submit an additional recent piece. Maybe you did a completely new piece of a work that David critiqued, and you incorporated the feedback and what you learned into a new piece. Or perhaps you've had difficulty narrowing down your selection each time to just two of your pieces. Whatever your reason might be, you now have the opportunity to include a Wild Card submission when you submit all of your pieces by Sunday, 11/8, 12 pm PT, for the exhibit.

The maximum amount of pieces that may be selected for exhibit remains at 3 pieces. (See full guidelines below).

LIGHTNING & IN-DEPTH CRITIQUE SESSIONS

The A & B groupings relate to the scheduling of each round of Lighting Critiques, but they do not relate to In-Depth Critiques or Bonus Critiques.
The artists scheduled for a specific day will be critiqued; however, the order of the critiques may not be the order listed on the Critique Schedule.
For each of your three original deadlines (two Lightning Critiques and one In-Depth Critique), submit two new & separate pieces such as drawings, paintings, sculpture, or mixed media works including textile arts (however, no works that are solely photography).
This will result in a total of 6 new & separate pieces being submitted by your 3rd CAC deadline.
In order to remain in contention for the Group Online Exhibit, submit two new and separate works for each of these three deadlines: Lightning Critiques (2) and In-Depth Critique (1).
- This keeps you eligible to submit your 6 works (whether you re-worked them or not and whether they were critiqued or not) for the Group Online Exhibit during the Artwork Submission Period (Nov. 3-8). From those six works, two will be chosen for exhibit.
Please submit artwork created between your CAC enrollment date and each artwork submission deadline.
Artwork may be in any style, with any subject matter (from representational to abstract).
David will select one of your two new images for each critique.
Email your images to both: jordan@davidlimrite.com and david@davidlimrite.com.
Critiques will be broadcast live (and recorded) via Zoom at 11am PT on the scheduled days.
For Lightning Critiques, 10 artists will receive a 5-minute critique. Sessions will be approximately one hour.
For the In-Depth Critiques, 3 artists will receive a critique lasting approx. 12-14 minutes each. Sessions will be approximately 45 minutes.

We suggest that the artwork submitted not be finished and/or be a work that you are “stuck” on or you don’t know what to do with next.
Once you have submitted your two images, you may not submit updated or newer versions of images of your artwork before the critique.

BONUS CRITIQUES

The Bonus Critiques are optional. There are two of them per artist.
For each of the Bonus Critiques only (not the Lightning or In-Depth Critiques), you may submit up to two works that meet any of the following guidelines:
- Previously submitted work(s) (that were not chosen for critique) and that do not have any changes; this is a second (or third) chance at having a specific work critiqued
- Previously critiqued works that you have re-worked, changed or updated
- Brand new works (which would add to your original total of 6 separate works). If you submit at least two brand new works, you will qualify to have a third piece chosen for the Group Online Exhibit (see below).
If you submit two brand new works for each Bonus Critique, the maximum number of separate pieces you could submit during the CAC will become 10 total.
You could qualify to have a third piece chosen for the Group Online Exhibit. Here’s how:
- If you submit a minimum of two additional, brand new works during your Bonus Critiques, you will qualify to submit those two or more additional, brand new works (whether you reworked them after your critique or not) during the Artwork Submission Period (Nov. 3-8) for a third piece to be chosen for exhibit.

ONLINE GROUP EXHIBIT

In order to remain eligible for the Group Online Exhibit, submit two new and separate works for each of these three deadlines: Lightning Critiques (2) and In-Depth Critique (1).
- This keeps you eligible to submit your 6 works (whether you re-worked them after your online critique or not and whether they were critiqued or not) for the Group Online Exhibit during the Artwork Submission Period (Nov. 3-8).
- From those six works, two will be chosen for exhibit.
- If you submit a minimum of two additional, brand new works during your Bonus Critiques, you will qualify to submit those two or more additional, brand new works (whether you reworked them after your critique or not) during the Artwork Submission Period (Nov. 3-8) for a 3rd piece to be chosen for exhibit.

While you will be submitting work during the beginning, middle and end of the CAC per your assigned deadlines, we encourage you to re-work the pieces you submitted whether they were critiqued or not (for each deadline) once you have received your critique from David.
The Artwork Submission Period is:
- November 3rd thru 8th at 12 pm PT
If you submitted two new and separate works for each of your three deadlines for a total of six (6): Lightning Critiques (2) and In-Depth Critique (1):
- For 3D artists, you may submit two images per piece. Thus, if you were submitting six (6) works, per above, you could submit a total of 12 photographs (2 for each of the 6 pieces).

Submit new ~~images~~ photographs of all 6 pieces you previously submitted during the CAC (whether they were critiqued or not) in their current, updated state (reworked, repainted, retooled, worked back into, fired, etc.). Email your images to both: jordan@davidlimrite.com and david@davidlimrite.com.

If you submitted two or more additional, brand new works during your Bonus Critiques (maximum four), email these additional two to four images (whether they were critiqued or not) in their current, updated state to both: jordan@davidlimrite.com and david@davidlimrite.com. (whether you reworked them after your critique or not) for a 3rd piece to be chosen for exhibit.
The final deadline for submitting artwork for the exhibit is:
- November 8th at 12 pm PT

ARTWORK PHOTOGRAPHY GUIDELINES

Please follow all of the Photography Guidelines below when you submit your work.
Do not submit artwork that has blurry or out of focus photography.

Do not photograph your artwork through glass or plexiglas.

Avoid glare and bright or dark spots (shadows) on your artwork.

Crop the photo to the exact outline of the drawing, painting or artwork so all that is seen is the artwork itself. If your piece is an irregular shape, please photograph it on a solid background.
Think of presenting your work professionally. When in doubt, imagine presenting a final image to a gallery or juried exhibit.

Submit your artwork rotated to the correct orientation (i.e., if the image was a mountain and sky, the sky should be at the top of the frame -- not on the right or left side or on the bottom of the image. This may occur particularly when you take an image of a horizontal piece by turning the camera sideways, and this is particularly important for an abstract painting.)

The artwork as shown in the image should not be "warped" (i.e., the top edge of the piece appearing wider or thinner than the bottom edge, when in fact they are equal in width). This "warping" is often caused by the camera (especially a cell phone camera) not being parallel to the artwork surface.

Submit a high-quality jpeg, png or tiff file of approx. 3-20 MB, with the longest dimension about 2500 px (i.e, an image with dimensions like these: 2500 px by 1800 px).

Artwork file size is where we see the most errors. Please take care to read the above bullet point about file size and make sure your image files meet these guidelines.

Include title, media, and dimensions in your artwork submission email.
For the In-Depth Critiques, if there is anything you want to say about the pieces, your topic and/or theme, please do so.
Images or artwork that do not meet the above guidelines may not be considered for critique. Please take care to follow the guidelines.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK FOR THE ONLINE EXHIBIT

Three Separate Emails
Please submit 3 separate emails per the following guidelines.

Please submit these emails on the same day within an hour period. This will help with organization, clarity, and allow us to know that we have (or have not) received all of your 3 emails.

These three emails will encompass all of your CAC artwork submissions plus a Wild Card piece (should you choose to submit one).

By following the instructions below, we will have an accounting of:

Every piece that was submitted for critique during the CAC
Whether you have reworked the piece and are resubmitting it
Whether you have not reworked the piece and are submitting the original version
This is not about whether you reworked the piece or not. It is so that we know all of the images of your work that David is selecting from and so that we know that have the correct updated version (if there is one).

David’s Selection
If you met all of the requirements for the exhibit:

David will select two pieces for exhibit from all of the pieces that were submitted during the CAC (whether they were critiqued or not).

If you also submitted two or more additional, brand new works during your Bonus Critiques (maximum four), David will select a third piece for exhibit. This piece will not specifically be chosen from the pieces submitted for Bonus Critique. It may come from any of the pieces that you submitted.

Image and Photography Refresher
If you need a refresher about photography and file size, please refer to the Artwork Photography Guidelines above.

Send Your Emails To…
Please send your artwork to both jordan@davidlimrite.com and david@davidlimrite.com.

Final Deadline
The final deadline for submitting artwork for the exhibit is:

November 8th at 12 pm PT

EMAIL ONE:

These are works that you submitted for critique during the CAC and have reworked in some way on the same substrate (canvas, surface, paper, clay, etc.).

Please make the subject line:
REWORKED PIECES for CAC Exhibit Submission - Your Name

Include:

Images of all the reworked pieces that have changed
Title, dimensions, media

If nothing has been reworked, please send this email anyway with the above subject line and say in the body of the email: I have not reworked any pieces.

This will tell us explicitly that we are not missing an email with reworked pieces, as you are not submitting any reworked pieces.

EMAIL TWO:

These are works that you submitted for critique during the CAC but have not reworked at all.

Please make the subject line:
ORIGINAL PIECES for CAC Exhibit Submission - Your Name

Include:
The original images but only if at least one of the following applies:

The title has changed.
You are providing a better photograph than the original one(s) you submitted.

If the title nor the photography has not changed, we will use the images we already have for these original pieces that were not reworked.

If nothing is being submitted in its original state, please send this email anyway with the above subject line and say in the body of the email: I have reworked all of my pieces so no original pieces are included.

This will tell us explicitly that we are not missing an email with original pieces, as you are not submitting any original pieces.

EMAIL THREE:

This is a piece that was created during the CAC but was never submitted for critique.

Please make the subject line:
WILD CARD PIECE & LINK for CAC Exhibit Submission - Your Name

Include:

Image of your piece (or two images, if it is a 3-dimensional piece)
Title, dimensions, media
Please provide the link for how people can contact you.
1. You may include one link on the exhibit website page that will display your images. We recommend that this link is to your website; however, it might also be to an email address, social media address or video URL. Please provide us with the link you want us to use.

If you are not submitting a Wild Card piece, please state such in the body of the email.

If nothing is being submitted as a Wild Card, please send this email anyway with the above subject line and say in the body of the email: I am not submitting a Wild Card piece.

This will tell us explicitly that we are not missing an email with your Wild Card piece, as you are not submitting a Wild Card piece.

How Each Artist Will be Featured

We will speak with each artist about his/her artwork and creative journey. The discussion will center around the two main topics outlined below and will take about 5 minutes for each artist. While you are speaking with us, we will show your artwork on screen in the same way your work has been shown during CAC critique sessions. [However, this is not a critique, and your work will not be “drawn” on with David’s drawing tools.]

Here are questions that you can explore that will form the basis of your 5-minute feature:

Briefly tell us a little about your work.
Questions to consider:
- What inspired your work?
- What fascinates you about the subject, style, technique or medium?
- What are you exploring with these pieces?
Briefly describe your journey during the CAC.
Questions to consider:
- How have you and your creativity grown or evolved?
- How has your mindset changed toward your art, the art-making journey, your creativity, and yourself?
- What was the biggest obstacle you have overcome?
- What was your most profound or helpful aha moment?

Timeline

First Hour

12:00-12:05 David and Jordan give a 5-minute introduction explaining the format of the reception and describing the CAC program.

12:05-12:50 First group of nine (9) artists are featured.

12:50-1:00 The first hour includes 10 minutes of “cushion” time that might be needed.

Second Hour

1:00-1:05 David and Jordan give a 5-minute re-introduction explaining the format of the reception and describing the CAC program. This is for those who might join at the beginning of the second hour

1:05-1:50 Second group of nine (9) artists are featured

1:50-2:00 The second hour includes 10 minutes of “cushion” time that might be needed.

Technical Aspects

We will review the technical aspects with you later, as the Online Reception will be conducted via Zoom webinar (not Zoom meeting). We will dedicate some time to practicing with you via the webinar format so that you can experience this ahead of time and gain some comfort in the familiar, but slightly different, setting.