  All
Visiting Artists are welcome
to participate in a
NIADA Artist Critique. A critique offers the opportunity
to display work, discuss problems, and interface
with a NIADA Artist member.
Participation
in a critique is by separate registration and available
ONLY to conference registrants with official registration
numbers.
Registrants may register for more
than one critique, and the fee for EACH critique
is $25.00. Critiques are done on a one-to-one basis
with a NIADA artist.
Requests for specific artists
will be accommodated when possible but is not guaranteed.
Areas which may be discussed
during a Critique: 
- Craftsmanship: How
the medium is handled, attention
to detail, painting,
wig technique, construction, and
base support.
- Design: Use of
color, composition, and scale.
- Anatomy: Proportion,
bone structure, and facial rendering.
- Concept: Originality,
approach, feeling evoked by concept.
Dolls critiqued will be available
for viewing by all registrants
during a scheduled
exhibit. Each piece is allotted a table
space of
no larger than 15” square.
Participating Visiting Artists need
to provide any base necessary to support their work,
and it must fit in the allotted space.
The Critique Registrar will be the contact person
for your critiques.
This year's critiques will be scheduled directly with your artist/critiquer at
a private-time arranged sometime during the convention
between you and your artist. They will have a list
of your artist at the convention for your to contact.
What the Critique Registrar needs from you:
- the medium in which you work
- an artist with whom you wish to
have your critique
- area in your work you wish to
discuss
The Critique Registrar will do their very best to get
you matched-up with your chosen artist but remember
not all artists give critiques!
If you have any questions before, during, or after the convention please contact the Critique Registrar: Heather Maciak critique@niada.org
PLEASE NOTE: Although sales during
conference and at all conference locations and
rooms are limited to NIADA artists' work only,
it is worthwhile for visiting artists to bring
samples of their best pieces. There are opportunities
to show that work. There is a critique, the critique
exhibit, and the challenge exhibit. Many times
these exhibits have been covered in the press.
Also at panel discussions, during classes, demos
and workshops, it is perfectly appropriate to use
your work to discuss techniques and presentations. |
