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Orchid

Hello Yama,

"Yama," isn't that "mountain" in Japanese? Is that little girl in your av seated at the top? (Wow, now that'd be a guru!)

I just wanted to nominate someone for uprising artist: an incredibly sweet and wonderfully compassionate person named Susan, who's art just becomes more and more breakthrough. She does photographic faeries with wonderful hand-drawn wings, bathed in soft light. Lately she's created one with a leaf gown too.

Truely magical. Anyways take a look at her here. You can't go wrong with this definition! ;^)

Hi Yama

It's great to have someone from Kim's magazine as a member and I think the idea of an emerging artist feature is a good one. The delema of who should be considered has all the hallmarks of censorship both to the artist and the judge.Too many times new artist are treated with discoutesy by not even being acknowledged by thoes they have spent time and effort in contacting. Nothing crushes the spirit more than to be rejected by some one who you thought of as being of like mind. Even if unintentional it's difficult not to take it personally. My happy discovery of this site was as a result of such an occurance. I understand that not every artist can be featured but if one reaches out at least let them know you noticed. An e-mail of thanks is better than nothing at all. I wish you all the luck in making dreams come true.

I'll add a second to the nominations of both Susan and Orchid!

Hi Yama,

I'm a curator for a gallery & usually emerging artist (in the "gallery sense") means someone fairly young, just out of an art grad school, someone the gallery curators feel is incredibly talented & is deserving of an exhibit.

But, I don't think you have follow that for the magazine. You could just have a short feature every month on someone that hasn't gotten the attention they deserve (in art, music, dance, acting, crafts, costume, etc), someone who has been overlooked.

And Tom, I like the idea of members suggesting someone. Maybe many more members could give ideas of who might be deserving of a little limelight!

Thanks for reading!

Lise