It's hard to imagine that the Minnesota State Fair is less than 2 weeks away. I decided to try my luck this year with the annual juried Fine Art exhibition at the Fair. The registration deadline was July 14 - you may have seen me running down Lombard Street in San Francisco with my entry form in hand, try frantically to make it to the post office in order to get the July 14 postmark before the postal employees went home for the day. Success, and apparently the Frank Sinatra stamp was a hit on the receiving end.
So, I have been patiently awaiting notification of "acceptance" or "non-acceptance" (I think that's polite for rejection?), but today my patience grew thin. Upon telephoning the Competition Office, I learned that my piece was indeed accepted AND (check out these statistics) only 9% of work was even accepted! Now that's beating the odds.
Prepare for Sock Monkeys in a Meat Grinder:
I hope to also enjoy seeing my entries in this year's Creative Activities competition alongside some fellow crafters....but that'll be another story for another day.
