Why should I pay to appear in a book?

The concept of our publications is different from most.

The books are either sold at cost or sent out free to selected recipients, so nobody makes money from sales.

We try to achieve the largest possible distribution to a professional audience of galleries, museums, art consultants, interior designers, agencies, collectors, etc. The purpose of the book is to promote the artists in it. This is the reason there is a participation fee. But only artists who meet the standards of our selection committee are approved.

 

Why should I appear in this book? What are the benefits?

Being included in a juried art book, where the artists are of high caliber, offers numerous benefits:

1. It is a prestigious and professional way to present your work to galleries, collectors, selection committees, juries and potential buyers.
2. Being included in such a publication not only presents your work, but places you among other highly regarded artists.
3. It increases the commercial value of your work.
4. It provides gallery owners with an effective tool to more easily sell your work and at a better price.

 

If you really like my art, you must accept me for free!

No artists are accepted for free. No matter how good or famous they are! The book is published for the the benefit of the artists. It offers them a valuable tool to promote themselves. 

However we welcome sponsored artists. Many of the participants in our books are sponsored by public organizations, universities, banks, private companies, etc. 

We provide artists who have been approved for inclusion and are interested in finding a sponsor with helpful information for potential sponsors about the benefits for sponsors. 

How is the book going to help me? Am I going to sell works?

The book is not a selling tool. It is a tool to promote the artist. It opens doors to galleries, it is a great selling tool for galleries and it raises the value of your work. It will help you to sell art to your clients and at higher prices. But you are not going to sell art directly from the book. This is not the purpose of the book.  People who see you in it are forwarded to your online portfolio and you can sell art this way, but you might never find out that these buyers came from the book. The book is meant to promote the artist. It is a very important addition to your resume. If you use it correctly, you will have great results and it can boost your career.

Procedure

• A committee selects not only the artists but the works that will be in the book.
• The criteria for selection are: interest, originality, beauty and very importantly, technical proficiency and mastery of the medium.
• "International Contemporary Masters" includes all media; painting, mixed media, digital art, illustrations, sculpture, installations, photography, pottery, performance art. "International Masters of Photography" includes all genres of photography.
• The books include artists and photographers from all over the world, and present a cross-section of contemporary art and photography internationally.

When is the deadline for an artist to apply?

There is no general deadline for applications because we close each volume when we complete the number of artists we can accept.We do set deadlines for monthly installments. We offer payment plans. For each plan there is a deadline. Ask the assistant curator who contacted you, to give you more information about it.

Do I pay to submit art for review?

It is free to submit art for approval. If you are approved and the jury has selected the art for the book, then we will send you the application and you will be asked to pay. You will have the choice to pay in installments.

How do I submit my work?

If you have been invited by an assistant curator, answer back to his/her message attaching images of your works or ask her/him to forward your website link to the jury for approval. If you found us by yourself send us your website link or send at least 5 images by email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it If you are approved you will be notified in within 3 working days.

Where can I find the application on line?

There is no application online because it is not available to everyone.  It is sent only to artists who have been approved and when we have selected the art. 

Shall I I see my page before the book is printed?

When the designer designs the pages, she sends them to the artists for approval. At this stage you can make changes, update your information and check for any mistakes in your name and website.

What about the exhibition in Las Vegas at the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Arts?

We organize this event because we know that an exhibition at a museum is a very important addition to an artist's CV. A few months after the book is published, we arrange the show for the artists in the volume.

How much does it cost to participate in this exhibition?

SNMFA is a non-profit organization. The artists have to make a donation as a contribution to the show. This is $175 for 1 artwork, $350 for 2 works and $400 for 3. No more than 3 works can be exhibited by each artist. The artist has to pay shipment cost to and from the museum.

Please note! We have nothing to do with the financial arrangements between the artists and the museum and any other arrangements. We only curate this show and select the works. We bear no responsibility for damage or loss of works during shipment or anything else.

Everything must be arranged between the artist and the museum.

We contribute for this show as well with books that we offer free to the museum. They sell them and keep all the proceeds.

Where is the muesum?

The SNMFA is in the old downtown of Las Vegas. It is located inside the Neonopolis shopping center on the second floor. The building is donated by the owner to the museum.

The Director Joe Palermo and the volunteers who work there do an excellent job of setting up the shows, have a great buffet for the opening, organize happenings like violin players, and have a professional photographer on hand to shoot the opening and the guests. Each show has a large opening with many visitors and buyers.

As an artist in the book do I have to participate in this exhibition?

No. Only the artists who want to do so participate in the show.

Do I have to be there at the opening?

No. You are certainly welcome, but you don't have to come. You can just ship your art.

How do you distribute the books?

Our books are distributed to galleries and other art and photography professionals all over the world. When a volume is released, we start sending out firstly the copies to the participants in the book and then we start sending free copies to galleries, agencies, museums, libraries, art collectors, consultants, interior design companies, etc.

Below is an indicative list of galleries where we have sent free books recently. It is by no means a complete list.

1022 Gallery

511 Gallery

539 Gallery

A Gallery For Fine Photography

A.G. Wagner Studio & Gallery

Abend Gallery

Addison Gallery

AFTERIMAGE GALLERY

Alain Briot Gallery

Albuquerque Photographers Gallery

Alexis Walter Art

Allen Koppel Gallery

Altman Siegel

Amador Gallery

Andre Zarre Gallery

Andrea Schwartz

Andrew Shire Gallery

Angela King Gallery

Anita Shapolsky Gallery

Anna Pappas Gallery

Anthony Meier Fine Arts

Antieau Gallery

Anton Haardt Gallery, Inc.

Appel Gallery & Photography Studio

Art For The Soul

Art Statements

ArtHaus

Artists Incorporated

Artscape Gallery

ArtZone461 Gallery

Asher Nieman Gallery

Atea Ring Gallery

Atelier Gallery Charleston

Bantam Fine Arts

Barbara Krakow Gallery

Bentley Gallery

Bernice Steinbaum Gallery

Bernstein & Andriulli

Bert Green Fine Art

Billy Shire Fine Arts

Blue Circle Studio

Blue Moon Gallery

Blue Sky Gallery

Bonni Benrubi Gallery

Boston Alpha Gallery

Breckenridge Gallery

Brian Gross Fine Art

Bruce BarnBaum

Brydges MacKinney

Burlingame Gallery

Butters Gallery

Cantrell Gallery

Capture

Carmen Sandiego

Casas Riegner Gallery

Center for Photographic Art

Charles Guice Contemporary

Charles Schwartz Photography

Chasen Galleries

Chemers Gallery

Christopher Grimes Gallery

Cirrus Gallery

Cokkei Snoei

Collection Privee Gallery

Columbine Gallery

Compton Gallery

Cosmos Photo

Courtyard Gallery

Cumberland Gallery

Davidson Galleries

Dillon Gallery

Dina Mitrani Gallery

Doubletake Gallery

Durban Segnini Gallery

Dykinga Photography

E.S. Lawrence Gallery

Eaton Fine Art

Edenhurst Gallery

Elins Eagles Smith Gallery

Elite Fine Art

Elizabeth Rice Inc.

Emily Mackie Gallery

Enrique Crusellas

Ernest Fuller Fine Art

Espacio Minimo

Etherton Gallery

Evergreen Fine Art

Expressions Galleries

Fassbender-Stevens Gallery

Figarelli Fine Art

Five 15

Flaere Gallery

Flatland Gallery

Fogle Fine Art

Forst Gallery

Foster White Gallery

Fraenkel Gallery

Frank Pictures

G2 Gallery

Galería ImagineYmaG'ART

Galeria of Sculpture

Galerie Meyer

Galerie Gabrie

Galerie Lilian Rodriguez

Galerie of Marseille

Galerie Philippe Chaume

Galerie Sono

Galleria De Felice

Galleria Silecchia

Gallery 270,

Gallery 339

Gallery Black

Gallery Central

Gallery Four Forty Four

Gallery M

Gallery Nine

Gallery Paquette

Gallery Shoal Creek

Gardner Colby Galleries

George Billis Gallery

Gingerbread square Gallery

Gingerbread Square Gallery

Gitterman Gallery

Gordon Wheeler Gallery

Gorell Gallery

Grand Lake Art Gallery

Greg Kucera Gallery

Greg Thompson Fine Art

Gregory James Gallery

Gregory Lind Gallery

Groveland Gallery

Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery

Haines Gallery

Hallway Gallery

Hamilton-Selway Fine Art

Hang Art

Hardcastle Gallery

Harris Stanton Gallery

Heath Gallery Inc.

High Tide Gallery

Highlands Art Gallery

Highlight Gallery

Horton Hayes Fine Art

House of Orange

Howard Greenberg Gallery

Howard Mandville Gallery

Hyde Park Fine Arts

Interior Motives

Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

Jackson Fine Art

Jackson Hole

James Kay Photography

James Randklev Photography

Jan Baum Gallery

JDC Fine Art

Jean Albano Gallery

Joan Cawley Gallery

John Gavrilis Photography

John MacLean Photography

John Paul Caponigro Gallery

Judy A Saslow Gallery

Kamp Gallery

Katie Gingrass Art Gallery

Kavanaugh Art Gallery

Keith Sheridan Inc

Keskini's Gallery

Kirkland Arts Center

Kopeikin Gallery

Kris Graves Projects

La Galerie Particuliere

Laguna North Gallery

Lakeshore Gallery

Lanning Gallery

Laurence Miller Gallery

Legacy Gallery

Leif Nilsson Spring Gallery

Lela Harty Studio Gallery

Lemon Street Gallery

Leslie Sacks Fine Art

Leslie Tonkonow

Liepers Creek Gallery

Local Color Gallery

Lucia Douglas Gallery

Lumiere Gallery of Photography

Magidson Fine Art

Magnum Photos

Mainview Gallery

MandM, Inc.,

Manny Silverman Gallery

Marina Cain Gallery

Mark Cravotta Gallery

Mark Gallery

Mark Moore Gallery

Marshall LeKae

Mary Williams Fine Arts

Maxwell Davidson Gallery

Maynard Reece Gallery

McBride Gallery

Merritt Gallery

Meyerovich Gallery

Michael Shapiro Photographs

Mitchell Ozog

Modernism Gallery

MONROE GALLERY of photography

Monty Stabler Galleries

Moody Gallery

Mountain Light Gallery

Nicelle Beauchen Gallery

Nordstamp Fine Art

Northwest by Northwest Gallery

ON Gallery

Ostrovsky Fine Art Gallery

Overland Gallery of Fine Art

P.J.S. Exhibitions

Packard Reath Gallery

Palm Avenue Gallery

Palmers Gallery

Panos Pictures

Papillon Gallery

Partners Gallery

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY

Patton Fine Art Gallery

Paul Scott Gallery

Pavleye Artists Management

Philip Hyde Photography

Photocollect Alan Klotz Gallery

Photographers Gallery

Photographers limited editions

Photography West Gallery

Photography West Gallery

Pi-Gallery

Pitzer's of Carmel

Pryor Fine Art

Quester Gallery

Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery

Red Dot Gallery

Red House Gallery

Rhoni Epstein Photo Group

Rhubarb & Custard

Richard Heller Gallery

Richland Fine Art

Rima Fine Art

Rive Gauche

Robert Burge / 20th Century Photographs

Robert Koch Gallery

Robert Mann Gallery

Robert Tat Fine Photographs

ROBERTSON GALLERY

Ross Gallery

Ruth Bachofner Gallery

Saltfineart

Sam Lee Gallery

Saret Gallery Fine Art Photography

Scott White Contemporary

Sean Kernan Gallery

Sharp Studio Gallery

Shaw Gallery

Sherrie Gallerie

Shooting Gallery SF

Shorelines Gallery

Shotview Photographers Management

Sicardi Gallery

Sideshow

Sienna Gallery

Signs of Life Gallery

Simic New Renaissance Galleries

Simon Gallery

Smith/Chamlee Photography

Sommerville Manning Gallery

Sophie-Maree Photography Gallery

Sosin & Sosin Gallery

South Coast Fine Art

Spencer Art Gallery

Stephanie's Art Gallery

Stephano's Fine Art Gallery

Stephen Bulger Gallery

Stewart & Stewart

Stewart Galleries

Stonington Gallery

Susan Sheehan Gallery

Susanne Vielmetter

Tam O'Neill Fine Arts

Terra Galleria Photography

The McLoughlin Gallery

The Ansel Adams Gallery

The AZ Gallery

The Brookover Gallery

The Cecile Moochneck Gallery

The Center for Fine Art Photography

The Cooley Gallery

The Harwood Art Center

The Museum of Modern Art

The North Point Gallery

The Perfext Exposure Gallery

The Photography Room

The Plainsmen Gallery

The Redfern Gallery

The Rymer Gallery

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Tilt Gallery

Timothy Yarger Fine Art

Tinney Contemporary

Tobey C. Moss Gallery

Traver Gallery

Trepanier Baer Gallery

Trotter Galleries

Trowbridge Gallery

Vail Fine Art Gallery

Ventana Art Gallery

Verve Gallery of Photography

Victoria Boyce Galleries

Ward-Nasse Gallery

Waterworks Gallery

Wendi Norris

Westport River Gallery

Wild Spirits Gallery

William A. Karges Fine Art

William Corey Gallery

William L. Schaeffer / Photographs

William Shearburn Gallery

Willie Holdman Gallery

Windrush Gallery

Xanadu Gallery LLC

Yossi Milo Gallery