Racine Starving Artist Art Show

In a major change this year, the Racine Starving Artist Art Show has decided to begin jurying everyone. In the past, once you were juried in, you didn't need to rejury. I applaud this move. It will only make this show that I have attended for many years stronger.

I try to avoid negative comments in this blog, but I have one. While at the show last year, an older woman with friends walked into my booth. She must have been on the art show committee because she said to her friends, we are trying to discourage digital work in this show.

My daughter heard this comment and turned to me with a stunned look on her face. How rude could you be! Maybe it's not your style of art, but my sales indicated that buyers found value in it. Most photographers are digital these days. This woman's lack of understanding represents an unwillingness to accept something new and creative that is the core of what ART is.