{"id":295,"date":"2009-06-26T10:59:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T16:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2011-08-12T15:19:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T21:19:23","slug":"artists-scam-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Artists: Scam Alert!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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"The United States of Consumerism" by Amy Guidry; Copyright Amy Guidry 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m always on the lookout for opportunities to further my art career.\u00a0 Unfortunately, there are some losers out there who are looking to take advantage of that.\u00a0 I did a little research online concerning an opportunity I came across that sounded too good to be true.\u00a0 Apparently that’s because it is.\u00a0 ArtistGrants.org is\u00a0promoting\u00a0their Biennial Competition with a $10K first place award- yes,\u00a010,000 dollars.\u00a0\u00a0Aside from the fantastic\u00a0prize money,\u00a0I had to wonder about this since I’d never even heard of them before.\u00a0 I’ve heard of many artist grants organizations, but\u00a0never\u00a0this one.\u00a0 So I kept an eye on their site…\u00a0 interestingly enough, I discovered that their entry fee\u00a0kept changing (increasing, of course) over the past couple of months.\u00a0 And the deadline has been extended three times\u00a0so far (at least since I’ve discovered this “competition”).\u00a0 And\u00a0who the hell are the jurors?\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Well, further investigation has dug up some more interesting tidbits…\u00a0 According to Art Opportunities Monthly, ArtistGrants.org tried to get their\u00a0Biennial listed\u00a0in their classifieds.\u00a0 Turns out AOM discovered their domain had been registered for a matter of days before they were listing their competition. AOM also states that the address provided to them for the listing “was a private home which had been bought for well over the asking price just a short time ago (arousing a newspaper’s suspicions that a kickback and finagling with mortgage money was involved). And now, the house just appeared on the market as a HUD foreclosure, meaning that the extra money the buyers had borrowed will not be paid back.”<\/p>\n

In addition, AOM also asked about their organization, judging, funding, etc. and never received a response.\u00a0 I found the same to be true for others’ attempts to contact ArtistGrants.org.\u00a0 So, after finding out all of this, I am steering clear of this “opportunity” and passing on this information to everyone in the blogosphere!\u00a0 Just goes to show that unless you are already familiar with an organization, you should always look into them before entering or sending them money.\u00a0 Many artist listings sites have\u00a0a disclaimer that they are not responsible if it turns out a listing is a scam and that they do not do background checks, so to speak.\u00a0 So be sure to do your homework!<\/p>\n

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I’m always on the lookout for opportunities to further my art career.\u00a0 Unfortunately, there are some losers out there who are looking to take advantage of that.\u00a0 I did a little research online concerning an opportunity I came across that sounded too good to be true.\u00a0 Apparently that’s because it is.\u00a0 ArtistGrants.org is\u00a0promoting\u00a0their Biennial Competition … Continue reading Artists: Scam Alert!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[666,657,656,653,34,5,55,651,659,669,611,664,660,661,658,667,663,662,432,655,13,665,654,668],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-help","tag-art-listings","tag-art-opportunities-monthly","tag-artist-opportunities","tag-artistgrantsorg","tag-amy-guidry","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-award","tag-biennial","tag-classifieds","tag-competition","tag-criteria","tag-entry","tag-fee","tag-grant","tag-internet","tag-judges","tag-judging","tag-money","tag-opportunity","tag-painting","tag-prize","tag-scam","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}