Jury
Each year, more than 1,000 artists apply for the Uptown Art Fair. The fair follows an arduous jury process, using a state-of-the-art online application system called ZapplicationTM. Each artist submits five slides of his or her work in a high-quality, digital format. Five highly qualified members of the arts community, including professors, critics and artists themselves, serve as jurors and hand pick the artists to be featured in the fair after viewing each applicant in each medium. The jurors view each artist's slides on 8-foot-tall screens and vote on who should be admitted to the fair.
The Uptown Art Fair also utilizes an on-site jury to choose the best of show winners each year. The on-site jurors are escorted around the fair on the first day of the event to choose the winners in each medium. The top ten percent and best of show winners are announced at the Artist Brunch the following morning and are invited back to the fair the following year.
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