Information and Questionnaire
for Profiles of Contemporary Representational Sculptors
on the Forgotten Delights website

Where the Profiles will appear  • Fees  • Submitting the questionnaire  • QUESTIONNAIRE 

 If you are a sculptor, you are invited to submit information for Profiles of Contemporary Representational Sculptors, a new site that aims to help lovers of figurative sculpture find and purchase such works. You need not be famous to be listed in Profiles, but you do need to produce at least some art that is not abstract.

 Where the Profiles will appear

The Profiles will appear on the Forgotten Delights website, the only site on the web that focuses on outdoor representational sculpture in New York City. Created in 2002, www.ForgottenDelights.com averages 90,000 hits per month from about 8,000 unique visitors. Visitors to the site who are interested in these New York City landmarks (mostly by 19th-century sculptors) may very well be interested in your representational sculptures as well. They will be able to contact you or your representative via the information included in your Profile. Each Profile page will have keywords and metatags to make it accessible by Google and other search engines. The Profiles home page at http://www.forgottendelights.com/Profiles/ProfilesHome.htm has indexes by sculptor, subject, and media. Zenos Frudakis has kindly volunteered for the first Profile - and an impressive Profile it is. Read it at http://www.forgottendelights.com/Profiles/ProfileFrudakis.htm

 Fees

As an introductory offer through April 2008, the charge for having a Profile listed for 6 months is US$25.00. The preferred method of payment is via PayPal, to the account of forgottendeli@earthlink.net. If you wish to pay by any other means, email forgottendeli@earthlink.net. Beginning in May 2008 there will be a sign-up fee for new profiles (to cover data entry) plus an annual fee.

 Submitting the questionnaire

The questionnaire for Profiles follows. To submit it, copy the questions below and paste them into an email addressed to forgottendeli@earthlink.net Answer the questions in the body of the email and send it. The only attachments should be JPGs of your works (see instructions below).

 You need not answer all the questions. If, for example, you give contact information only for the gallery that represents you, then the fields for your snail-mail address and telephone will not appear on your Profile page.

 You will be notified when your profile has been uploaded.

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Questionnaire for Profiles of Contemporary Representational Sculptors

Please use the clipboard to copy the questions below and paste them into the body of an email addressed to forgottendeli@earthlink.net. Answer the questions in the body of the email and send it. The only attachments should be JPGs of your works.
 

Name of artist, studio, or company:

 

Subjects you specialize in or have produced (delete those that don't apply, and add if necessary): portraits - narratives - busts - reliefs - animals

Media in which you work (delete those that don't apply, and add if necessary): bronze - clay - wood - stone - resin - steel - lucite

NOTE: These subjects and media will be used to index your works on the Profiles site and to create metatags for search engines. It's your choice whether you list all the subjects and media you've ever worked in, or only those that you specialize in.

 

The sculptor speaks

Paste in below a paragraph or two aimed at intelligent, sympathetic non-artists who are potential buyers of your work. This can be an excerpt from a published article, an informal comment from a letter or your website, or what you most often find yourself telling visitors to your studio. Consider any of the following, or a combination of them: What do you think art is and what it's for? Why did you become an artist? How would you describe your style?

 

 

 

 Gallery

When you email this questionnaire back, attach JPGs of a maximum of 4-5 sculptures that represent your best representational works and/or a range of the works you've created. Preferable image size is between 2MB and 4MB. Please use your name as the first part of the file name, for example: SMITHwashingtonportrait.jpg or SMITHimage1.jpg.

Supply the following information:

File name of 1st JPG (this will appear as the largest image on your Profile page):
Caption for 1st JPG:
Photo credit of 1st JPG, if applicable:

File name of 2nd JPG:
Caption for 2nd JPG:
Photo credit of 2nd JPG:

File name of 3rd JPG:
Caption for 3rd JPG:
Photo credit of 3rd JPG:

File name of 4th JPG:
Caption for 4th JPG:
Photo credit of 4th JPG:

File name of 5th JPG:
Caption for 5th JPG:
Photo credit of 5th JPG:

 

Personal information (NOTE: Feel free to leave any of these blank. If a field is blank, it won't appear on the Profiles page.)

Date of birth:

Place of birth:

Date you began to sell sculpture:

Education & training:

Exhibitions:

Institutions or corporations that own your work:

Awards and memberships:

Mentions in print or on the web:

 

Contact info (Provide as much or as little as you wish. As above, if a field is blank, it won't appear on the Profiles page.)

Your website:

Your blog:

Your e-mail:

Your mailing address:

Your telephone:

Gallery that represents you:

Gallery's website:

Gallery's email:

Gallery's mailing address:

Gallery's telephone:

Price range of your available works:

 

The fine print

Profiles of Contemporary Representational Sculptors is an offshoot of www.ForgottenDelights.com, the only site on the Web devoted to outdoor representational sculpture in New York City. (Click here to see a list of New York City sculpture discussed on the Forgotten Delights site.) The appearance of a sculptor's profile on this site does not imply that the owner of Forgotten Delights has seen and approved of every work of that sculptor. Contrariwise, the sculptors listed have not necessarily seen and approved all the comments that appear on the Forgotten Delights site or might appear in the future.

 The owner of Forgotten Delights reserves the right unilaterally to reject material that she considers in execrable taste or likely to provoke lawsuits. Artists' submissions will be edited for grammar and punctuation if necessary, but not for content.

 The artist retains the copyright for the material on the Profile, including photographs and comments under "The sculptor speaks," but grants permission for the use of that material on the Forgotten Delights site. Such permission will last as long as the artist pays to be listed on the site, or until the artist requests that this Profile be removed from the Forgotten Delights site.