The 8th Annual Budding Artist Exhibition will be held at Queenswood Villa June 2 to 22, 2008
Bilingual Application Form (Word Format) (PDF Format)
Exhibition Rules (Word Format - Engl) (PDF Format - Engl)
The main goal of this annual exhibition is to encourage emerging artists who do not have the opportunity to exhibit their works with other groups or in other locations.
While it is difficult to accurately describe a person who is "budding" and at what point one "ceases to be budding," there are certain unmistakable landmarks. Recognition, by other artists, that you are their peer is the definition used buy the province of Ontario.
More substantially, frequently exhibiting and/or renting space in exhibitions, with a history of sales in public events, signifies that an artist is "no longer budding." Being accepted in a professional group for example "Art on Sparks" or "Art Lending", where the work is juried prior to acceptance into the group, indicates the person is "no longer budding."
Teaching others in that medium is also a recognized milestone, an individual cannot be both budding and teaching.
One goal of the exhibition is to provide feedback to artists who's works receive low marks - a score less than 55%.This is done in the spirit of encouragement and to further improvement. More than 50 artists participated and submitted over 90 works for jurying last year.
In essence, the jurors look for originality in style and presentation of subject matter, as well as awareness of compositional elements, while acknowledging that the artist is not professional. The process is fair. Works are presented to the jurying panel one at a time and scoring is done in silence. Once the voting is finished and the marks registered, the judges review the works with lower rankings and as a group discuss the merits of each, as well a suggestions for improvement. The exhibition coordinators will then relay the commentary to the participant by phone. At no time are scores publicized.
Ribbons are presented individually by each juror to the work they feel exhibits the most potential. Since the awarding of ribbons is not related to scoring, it is entirely possibly that an artist will receive a perfect score but not receive a ribbon.
Remember, we are all winners when we have the opportunity to share our work in an exhibition!