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==Guidelines==
Curators can choose between 1 to 8 artists for a show.  The artists and curator will each receive a small stipend.  Artists for solo shows must be selected by a curator.  A curator can not include their own work in a show.

==Schedule==
Every two weeks, changing on a thursday.  Send an email to Steve at visitsteve.com for schedule info.

* Curator- A Bill Miller (Dec 18th, 2008)
* Curator- Addie Wagenknecht (Jan 1st, 2008)
* Curator- Lisa Dent (Jan 15th, 2009)
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* Curator- Steve Dietz (Feb 12, 2009)

==How to Curate a Show==

1. Intro:<br/>
First, let's define our terms and how this works.  A *show* is made up of *bodies of work*.

A *body of work* is made up of 17 different sized individual images.  The 17 dimensions match the common sizes of advertising banners on the internet.  The image(s) you choose to make a *body of work* can be cropped from the same source image, or different images - it's up to you.

A *show* is made up of 8 *bodies of work*, a total of 136 individual images.  The plugin requires 8 different bodies of work.  If you have fewer, you can duplicate some, though the duplicated ones will appear more frequently.

Add-Art replaces all the ads on a page with one body of work.  It chooses this at random.  Each page you navigate to, it decides which body of work to use.

2. Cropping images:<br/>
Crop the images to the following dimensions at 72dpi
* 88x31
* 120x240
* 120x600
* 125x125
* 150x60
* 160x600
* 180x150
* 184x90
* 234x60
* 240x400
* 250x250
* 300x250
* 300x600
* 336x280
* 392x72
* 468x60
* 728x90

file formats for the images: .jpg so far.

+If you're a curator, you probably don't want to do this all yourself because 1) it's tedious to do 8 times, and 2) the artist will probably want to make decisions on how the image is cropped.+

3. Name the body of work including the dimensions at the end.  For example:
name88x31.jpg, name120x240.jpg, name120x600.jpg, etc

4. Pack all the images up and send them to us.  AND

5. Upload all the images to the Add-Art site using these instructions [[Add-Art site development]].  If you have trouble, get in touch.

6. Write a curatorial statement we can post about the show.

===Interested curators without scheduled shows===
* Joanna Raczkiewicz
* Joseph del Pesco
* Renny Pritikin
* Millie Burns
* Nancy Kamergorodsky
* Alice Arnold
* Kimberly Lloyd, Qompendium
* Dana Orland
* Ben Leduc-Mills
* [deletia] Co-editors Lynn Harris & Paul Stanley

==Past Shows==

* Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo - Curator - Joan Cummins (Brooklyn Museum)
* Favorite Works of the Mechanical Turks - curated by people on Amazon's Mechanical Turk
* Curator - Bennett Williamson (June 5, 2008)  
* Curator - Sarah Cook (June 19, 2008)
* Curator - Charles Broskoski (July 3, 2008)
* Curator - Addie Wagenknecht (July 17, 2008)
* Curator - Sam Gould (July 31st 2008)
* Curator - Favorite Works of the Mechanical Turks 2 (August 14th 2008)
* Artist  - Yael Kanarek (August 28th 2008)
* Curator - Ayah (September 11th, 2008)
* Curator - Christina Kral (September 25th, 2008)
* Curator - Sarah Cook, working with Jon Winet (for the election week!) October 23th
* Curator - Paddy Johnson (November 6th, 2008)
* Curator/Artist - Tucker Nichols (November 20, 2008)
* Curator - Ivan Tanzer (December 4th, 2008)

Test shows:
* Conceptual Classics - Yves Klien, Picasso, Cindy Sherman, Chris Ware, Gordon Matta-Clark
* Color Fields - 8 different colors
* Americana - Eagles and American Flags, Hamburgers, Fat Guys on Motorcycles, Apple Pie, Golf, Baseball, and more 
* Eagles and American Flags

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