Guides for Artists & Galleries

Connect confirmations, late invitations, condition and custody, spaces, labels, consignment, point of sale, checkout, and settlement.

Maintain approved organization identity once and verify how it appears across public and transactional surfaces.

A vendor-neutral framework for comparing intake, jury governance, post-acceptance operations, costs, accessibility, and data portability.

Use the campaign workspace, versions, recipient preview, send progress, and controlled-rollout collaboration tools safely.

Manage membership standing, record links, benefits, renewals, synchronization, matching, exceptions, and reconciliation.

Use ownership, conflict protection, review checkpoints, and recovery evidence when several staff members build a call.

A six-month operating checklist from program design through jurying, installation, sales, returns, and follow-up.

A sourced comparison of call-for-entry platforms for galleries, arts councils, museums, and creative programs.

Set up anonymous art review with redaction, conflict handling, juror preview, permissions, and an auditable reveal.

A sourced explanation of CaFÉ Pro and Plus pricing, per-application fees, jurying, renewal, and payment charges.

Plan secure tax-document collection, payment classification, sales-tax questions, retention, and qualified review for an art program.

Build a documented chain of custody from acceptance through receiving, installation, sale, checkout, and return.

A neutral worksheet for deciding whether a broad application platform fits a gallery's call, jury, exhibition, and data requirements.

A sourced guide to free tiers, pay-per-call models, token pricing, and the costs that can sit outside a zero-dollar subscription.

Understand jury selection, curatorial selection, blind review, conflicts, criteria, capacity, and the evidence behind a decision.

Build a transparent fee from the program budget, access goals, member policy, application structure, and artist communication.

Recruit jurors with clear scope, compensation, conflicts, recusal, access, review preview, and audit expectations.

Write an accessible artist statement that explains the work, choices, and context without pretending there is one winning formula.

Accessible acceptance, waitlist, decline, and late-invitation templates with a safe verification workflow.

Design triage, scoring, and ranking rounds with redaction, conflicts, progress checks, ties, and an auditable transition.

Separate who may enter, when intake occurs, and how selections are made across common exhibition models.

Create accurate, consistent artwork images, useful detail views, and files that survive call-specific crop and size requirements.

Scope exports, preserve historical evidence, rebuild current workflows, and cut over at a safe call boundary.

An editable way to measure staff time, error risk, communication work, and handoffs in a spreadsheet-based submission process.

Connect call intake, jurying, exhibition publishing, websites, campaigns, commerce, labels, and physical programming.

Understand fixed, rolling, application, invitational, and hybrid calls, including fees, eligibility, selection, and artist rights.

Plan the call, govern review, invite artists, install work, sell responsibly, and close the exhibition with one documented workflow.

Prepare images and application text, check rights and fees, request accommodations, submit safely, and respond to late invitations.