Featured Artists on FirstCoast.Life get Publicity. Lots of it.
As a featured artist, your artwork will be showcased and promoted through an individual portfolio article that is all about you. In your own words, describe your inspiration, technique, goals and accomplishments.
Features are read by thousands of readers who visit this site each month. A prominent link in your article pushes traffic to your artist website, giving you a chance to share more of your art, make sales, and collect email addresses of interested visitors.
Your artist feature is promoted to our large social media following (~5,000) and emailed to more than 5,000 subscribers, exposing your art to a vast audience.
After your feature publishes, you will receive a PDF copy of your portfolio article in magazine style format. The PDF can be shared through email, placed on your website for download, or printed out and use as marketing collateral that continues to promote you as an artist.
Our mission is to bring your art and your story to the world using beautiful presentation that will publicize your work, increase your web presence, enhance your artist reputation and give you materials to continue promotion.
And, importantly, First Coast Life takes no commission or payment of any kind on sales or contracts resulting from your artist feature!
Applicants must be at least 18 years of age. Artists from North Florida may apply.
We accept and encourage applications from visual artists in all mediums, including painting, drawing, sculpture, digital art, collage, photography, mixed media, clay, fiber, glass, wood, printmaking, metal, musicians of all genres and others.
Accepted artists will be required to submit written content and images for their feature within four weeks of acceptance. If there is no response from the artist, a second request will be sent. Any artist who does not provide materials within one week after the second request will forfeit their spot as a featured artist.
Applicants affirm that all artwork submitted for consideration is their own original work, and permit First Coast Life to display their images in an article published on FirstCoast.Life.com. Applicant agrees that images of their work may be used elsewhere to promote their featured article, such as social media platforms and email newsletters, or as an example of a featured artist. All images used in artist features are the property of the artist and the artist retains the sole copyright.
First Coast Life does not receive any fees or commissions on sales or contracts that result from exposure as a featured artist.
SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.
The next Call for Artists will begin October 1, 2021.
