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Truth in Advertising
Many shows actually make a profit from the artists that show up or from the entries fees paid in order to get into the show. The Arts for the Parks gives away a $50,000. first place. This carrot provokes over 2,000 artists each year to send in entry fee of $50.00 each.
We artists fund these things and the events are advertised money making ventures. The shows could at least behave according to their prospectus. To have 2 or 3 people prescreen hundreds of our entries and send only a dozen or so to the advertised judge or jury is clearly a flawed way to conduct a competition.
By the way the Arts in the Parks has always looked at the work w/o signatures, assigned numbers and sent the paintings (all the paintings) to the actual people listed on the prospectus to judge the work.
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