Tutorials
Creating Compelling Artists Calls: Tips on How to make your opportunity stand out
Welcome to our tutorial on how to create an attractive opportunity for artists. We believe that every artist deserves a fair and realistic opportunity to showcase their talent, and as a platform, we are committed to providing just that. Here are some tips to help you create an opportunity that artists will love:
More detailsCreating an Effective Artist Profile on CuratorSpace
Creating your artist profile on CuratorSpace is a crucial step in building your artistic career. It allows you to showcase your work and be discovered by curators and art organisations. In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the process of creating your profile and highlight some best practices for uploading images and files.
More detailsManaging Your Opportunity Submissions SCREENSHOTS TERESA
Curators face many challenges when it comes to organising open calls. These challenges include the need to organise a potentially large number of submissions, the time-consuming nature of reviewing each submission, making decisions, and then communicating with applicants, as well as the need to export information to create labels or catalogue entries.
More detailsThe Artist's Guide to Submitting Successful Opportunity Applications
As an artist, submitting applications for opportunities is a crucial part of building your career. CuratorSpace is an independent web application that allows curators to source submissions from artists and artists to find appropriate opportunities to submit to. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of submitting successful applications on CuratorSpace.
More detailsSetting up and managing your new artist subscription
This tutorial will give you important information on how to set up and manage your artist subscription so that you can start applying for opportunities:
More detailsSetting up and managing your new curator subscription
Welcome to CuratorSpace! If you're a curator or event organiser, this tutorial will guide you through setting up and managing your curator subscription so you can start offering opportunities.
More detailsCreating your Curator Profile
Your profile on CuratorSpace is a representation of your curatorial practice and can greatly impact your chances of collaborating with artists and art organisations. In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the process of creating a profile that accurately reflects your expertise, showcases your work, and communicates your unique curatorial vision.
More detailsManaging your opportunity submissions
Creating your opportunity and sharing it through your email and social networks are only the first steps in organising your event. The real work starts after this; collecting, collating, managing, and responding to all of the submissions you receive. The administration involved in this can be arduous to say the least. But don’t worry; CuratorSpace has been designed to give you an easy and intuitive way to organise your opportunity submissions.
More detailsSubmission Forms Made Simple
In this tutorial, we will explain how to create submission forms in more detail. You will learn how to choose and customise your own forms, which detail and data type to select and how this can help with managing the submission and selection process.
More detailsCreate an opportunity in eight easy steps
This tutorial will show you how easy it is to create your own opportunities on CuratorSpace. Our step-by-step instructions will guide you through setting up your open call, creating forms to gather the required details, and then finding (and inviting) artists to apply.
More detailsJudging opportunities on CuratorSpace
If you want to invite a judging panel to help adjudicate your opportunity submissions, CuratorSpace has a system which allows curators to invite judges to select and score submissions, either together or remotely. We've outlined the process of setting up your panel and judging submissions below.
More detailsUploading images and files to submissions and opportunities
Managing images can be a challenge; whether making sure you have the right images in the right place, resizing, cropping and attaching them to your submission. The media manager tool from CuratorSpace makes this a lot easier, and this tutorial takes you through the basics of how to upload and attach images and files to your submissions or opportunities.
More detailsWriting an artist statement for your profile
Writing an artist statement is a fundamental part of being a professional artist. It helps you to understand your own work better as well as enabling buyers and curators to learn more about your process. Sharing this information with your audience creates more interest in your work, and increases your chances of them buying or showing it.
More detailsCreating your artist profile
With an artist profile on CuratorSpace you can tell people about your practice, show your work (and even tell people how to purchase it), as well as giving information on your previous projects.
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CuratorSpace isn't another listings website; it's a place where curators and organisers can use custom online forms to allow artists to apply to their opportunity. It also allows you to see and manage all submissions made to your opportunity on the website, and to contact contributors directly.
Register now and you can start making submissions and even create your first opportunity for free.