The decision for entries for this 12 months’s e-merge exhibition opened in January 2008. Entrants submitted work by a web based utility service till the deadline of February 22, 2008.
This 12 months’s competitors attracted nearly 300 entrants from twenty-two international locations and from each continent besides Antarctica. In late February, a panel of three jurors undertook the huge job of choosing a bunch of finalists by reviewing over 1,700 digital pictures. Along with pictures, the jurors have been capable of view the entrants’ names, the titles and dimensions of their artworks and the methods used to create the artworks.
The three jurors for this 12 months’s competitors have been Jane Bruce, Dante Marioni and Richard Speer. They carried out their duties with nice professionalism, collegiality and care, evaluating every artist for excellence of workmanship, design and creativity. After deciding on the group of finalists, the jurors selected one piece of paintings by every finalist to be included within the exhibition. In early Could, as soon as the chosen items had been put in, the jurors gathered to overview the assembled work and to decide on the class award winners.
We want to thank the jurors for serving to to make e-merge 2008 an inspiring assortment that displays the excessive requirements of immediately’s artist working in kiln-glass. And we want to encourage entrants who didn’t qualify as finalists this 12 months: to proceed their efforts to make good work; to help their work with high-quality pictures, show {hardware} and artist statements; and to remember the fact that jurors’ selections are made in a selected context, underneath explicit constraints, and may by no means be taken as absolute judgments of the work.
We additionally want to thank everybody who attended the e-merge 2008 opening reception— for supporting the artists and the exhibition and for serving to to pick the winner of the Widespread Award.