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A Projekt30 is an artist run arts organization dedicated to promoting emerging artists.

Further your artistic career by exposing your artwork to "brick and mortar" galleries, curators, dealers, art lovers, etc. using our services. Being an artist is difficult. Many of us don't know how to market our work, or we are drowned out by the competition. We exhibit your work to a huge number of galleries, dealers, etc. so you don't have to wait and hope; not knowing what you're hoping for.

A Projekt30 hosts an online juried exhibition of thirty artists every month. We send invitations to a huge number of galleries all over the world. Ideally you make plenty of connections, giving you options, allowing you to negotiate the best deal. How much it would cost to send slides to a hundred galleries? We send to thousands in a juried format that insures quality, so that they are inclined pay attention.

As artists, we would prefer the exhibition not be juried, but few people have the patience to sift through hundreds of artworks. The internet has historically not been very good to artists. There is no mechanism to control the quality of the work presented. Viewers have been drowning in dreck, and losing interest. A juried exhibition alleviates this problem.

Juried exhibitions suffer a flaw: they are not fair to artists who participate. There is a fee just to be considered, and many artists who participate find they are essentially just paying for a rejection letter.

Our juried exhibitions are different. Each of our shows has two rounds. In the first round all artwork submitted is displayed. Visitors to Projekt30 submit ratings to help determine which artwork graduates to round two. This competitive, interactive format draws in thousands of viewers, and all participating artists have an opportunity to acquire useful feedback or career-building connections. In the second round, the exhibition is narrowed to 30 artists. We maintain a high standard of quality, which attracts galleries looking for artwork to sell.

A Become a member, or submit a one-time application.

Active Members can submit up to 10 images to each exhibition for free. To learn more about memberships and try our site building tools for free, click here.

Online applicants receive a complementary Membership, allowing access to our exciting new website building tools. To apply online, click here.

By mail we accept any media of reproduction: slides, digital files, photographs, etc. Do not send originals. Media is returned if a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) is included. For more information go to apply by mail.

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Easy to set up. Create your personal web site using Projekt30's site building tools. We provide professionally-designed templates that you can customize. The easy-to-use interface requires no web design experience, and you can organize and display up to 255 images.

Stay unique. No ads, banners or links to any parent site will appear on your web site. Your web site is accessible through multiple personalized web domains. Visitors will see a web site unique to you, not one branded by Projekt30.

Sell your work. With a personal web site from Projekt30, you can negotiate sales with people who want to buy your work. Projekt30 takes no commission from the sale, so the profit is entirely yours.

Build on the strength of Projekt30, while remaining independent. As a member, you can submit to our exhibitions at no extra cost, and link directly from your Projekt30 entry to your personal web site. Our exhibitions regularly attract tens of thousands of unique visitors every month, and winners appear in Projekt30's permanent archive.

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A No. You made the work, you keep the money. We have neither the infrastructure nor the desire to attempt to enforce a commission structure. It also wouldn't make much sense as our primary goal is to connect you to an organization that specializes in brokering your work, and probably will wish to collect a commission for doing so.

A All entries are posted online for two weeks. Visitors to Projekt30 submit feedback as to which artists should be included, and can contact artists via email if they wish. The data collected is turned over to our in-house jurors who make the final selections. The jurors are not obliged to strictly adhere to the public selections.

A We use new jurors each exhibition, no two Projekt30 exhibitions are the same. Every artist has an equal opportunity regardless of past exhibitions.

A It varies from show to show, depending on the in-house jurors.

Each time we host a publicly juried show, the process begins with the public vote. Once voting is complete, the server tabulates all the data and displays it for our in-house jurors (who are physically present for the jurying process). The set up they use to jury the show is not too different from the one the public uses; the only difference is that in the square where the 1-5 rating interface appears for the public, the in-house jurors instead see the artist's average rating and rank (for example: 27 of 123). Those artists that rank within the top 30 are highlighted. The jurors see every artwork by every artist, regardless of the rankings.

The jurors then begin to assemble the exhibition, and here is where the process begins to vary widely. We have never had a show where the public and the in-house jurors were completely in agreement, and we have never had a show where the in-house jurors actually agreed with one another either. It generally takes about 1-2 days of arguing and bartering (as in: "Fine, you can have that artist, but I want this other one that you don't like.") before the content of the show is determined.

A It's not easy to predict. As the jury is always changing, so are the criteria. Different combinations of jurors create different shows. It's often a surprise to everyone what makes the cut.

Two factors are always critical:

1. Quality of Representation. The slides or media must clearly and accurately depict the art work. The representation of the work is the work as far as an online show is concerned, its not enough that the viewer "get the idea".

2. Consistency and Development. Submit examples that communicate the development of a focused, mature body of artwork. This can vary from artist to artist, but any artist mature enough to consider a professional career will have no problem. Don't send 5 examples from five different series or bodies of work.

A Yes. We will not exhibit the same pieces twice, send new work. The mailing list is always growing, later shows get additional exposure.