CRITERIA FOR EXHIBITING:

To best maintain a consistent gallery level look for the art/craft collectors who visit the Juried OnLine Arts Festival, we have established the following standards for everyone's benefit:

1. Professional fine artists and craftspeople only.   Please ~ no hobbyists or part time "crafters".   By "professional" we mean that you earn a portion of your income from your original art or handmade fine craft, or have advanced academic training;

2. All work must be originally designed and created by your studio;

3. The quality of your work should be recognized as having achieved a degree of excellence ~ in other words, your work is advanced enough that you are consistently accepted into any of the following venues:  the better galleries; juried art & craft shows and/or exhibitions; shops for collectibles; online fine art oriented websites, etc.

4. JOLAF is exclusively for art/craft studios, NOT commercial enterprises mass producing products by hired employees.

5. You need to have your own independent web pages (see below), which feature your own original art/craft work;

6. All new exhibitors must have their own unique registered domain name.   An example would be:   http://www.yourstudioname.com An example of a subdomain (unacceptable for JOLAF) is   http://www.geocities.com/yourname  or  http://www.freeserver.yourname.com

7. In keeping with the gallery atmosphere, your website should reflect the quality of your work, with:
   • An attractive layout;
   • Sharp and reasonably quick loading graphics;
   • Your site must be ready to view ~ we do not list sites "Under Construction";  and
   • No irritating pop-up advertising windows, or ugly commercial advertising banners at the top of your pages. (An example of an "ugly" banner is an animated monkey that flashes on and off, trying to sell some useless product!). Note we are NOT talking about income generating opportunities such as Google's AdWords, but rather, the kind of irritating in-your-face advertising that simply drives people away.

8. All the work on your site must be created by your studio ~ we do not present any commercially purchased "buy/sell" art & craft work or imported items; also no purchased pattern designs, molds, kits, dried flowers, etc. (Click to read why [buy/sell] is not good);

9. To be candid, we do not seek submissions from "Country Handicraft" type work. However, JOLAF is proud to welcome those truly exceptional traditional, folk, outsider, and primitive artists who wish to join the group;

10. (Optional)  And finally, if possible we ask that you place the elegant JOLAF return link logo somewhere on your own website: (Note that if you are unable to add new graphics to your site, then a text link will be perfectly fine).

    This will associate you with an acclaimed online fine arts gallery, which will further enhance your studio's image, and will help establish the all-important [professional credibility] for the visitors who enter your site.

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