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The Business Magazine for Visual Artists, listing 400 juried exhibitions, competitions, gallery shows, art festivals, grants, residencies, and other opportunities. Also features articles written by leading artists on marketing, self-promotion, creativity, and art law for new or established artists.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1480 in Magazine Subscriptions
• Format: Magazine Subscription

Customer Reviews

Numero Uno
If you earn your living as an artist, or aspire to do so, Art Calendar is essential, and should be the number one magazine on your subscription list.
The articles are all informative, and cover a wide range of topics that relate to art and its marketing. Subjects like legal issues (copyright laws, etc.) for instance, can be very complex, and are described in an understandable way, using English instead of a lot of legal terms.

Regular contributor Jack White usually writes about what he knows best, which is selling art, and keeping your outlook positive. A well respected artist and author, Jack is quite an art team with his successful painter wife, Mikki Senkarik, and I never miss his upbeat take on the "art biz".
Another regular is Steve Meltzer "The Photo Guy", with lots of tips on photographing your work. You can't take advantage of many of the available opportunities without good photographs and slides of your art, and Steve will tell you how to do it.

"The Listings" is the most comprehensive list of upcoming juried exhibits, festivals, grants/fellowships, publishing opportunities, and much more, to be found anywhere in print. Thanks to the dilligent skill and hard work of publisher and editor-in-chief Carolyn Blakeslee Proeber, along with her husband David and their staff, we can get all this information under one cover.
Art Calendar also encourages artists to submit slides and photographs to their magazine for possible use as illustrations (details on the exact procedure for this are in the magazine). There are many black and white images on the inside pages, and a full color cover. I'm proud to say that one of my pieces was on the February 2003 cover, so I know that having one's work published in this magazine can actually happen !
I cannot emphasize enough how important this publication is to the life of an artist. Do not hesitate to subscribe, it will be well worth it.

Something has happened...
I once subscribed to this magazine for several years through regular mail and loved it, but got extremely frustrated after switching to the E-mail subscription...regular mail just took too long (many deadlines passed by the time it got there) and the E-mail subscription was cheaper. But on E-mail, issues did not come through regularly - I have absolutely no problem with any other on-line services (and never did - I do not have a kick-back/kick-out function under my E-mail system). Sometimes I had to contact them and it would come through quickly, other times it just did not make it...

They also changed the way the listings were done - before ALL listings were done by state, but then the listings were split out by a type of "under $25" (I think that is the dollar amount) entry fee which was still arranged by state and another category of "over $25", but the "over $25" were mish-mashed with no order in the "over $25" listings...maybe that has changed, I do not know...

The articles ARE good for a beginning artist - I went through a development process that got me up to speed quickly on the most critical points (ie, as mentioned below with legal issues and doing slides of artwork) to where I was flash-reading the articles to see if I could see anything new as I developed my career...I ended up using books that contained more detailed information(through this Amaz website, of course!)...

With that all said, I did like the magazine when I first got it and it went smoothly for a year or so, but with the Email complications and then the entry level break-out, they switched me back to regular mail and I just sort of gave up...because the regular mail receipts became erratic also..

I MIGHT try the listings again, but am going to be careful as I have found the free online service of ArtShow to be just about as good with its listings arranged by entry deadline...I never did a comparison between Art Magazine and ArtShow - someone else might like to do that...

I did not know the business was being sold (but I did notice the Art Calendar web-site was not working once I got here), so I will pick up two or three issues at the magazine racks in the future before making my decision to re-subscribe or not...

Buyer Beware!
As a long time subscriber to this magazine, I have enjoyed and used it quite a bit. However, since changing to an on-line subscription this year, I have not received the past few issues. After repeatedly contacting them I finally was told they were 'busy' since the company is being sold. I requested that my subscription be changed back to regular mail - no response. Neither have I received any issues. Non-responsive with a bad customer attitude. Too bad - this was once a good thing.