VISUAL ARTS PRACTICES
Visual Arts Businesses – Not for Profit
One good example, at the upper level of this area is the ‘Prix Pictet Group.’ They are the leading group in the world for Photography Prizes and Awards. They offer grants, contracts, media partnership, and other forms of support.
Major non-profits are run as professional legitimate businesses, with a declared specialist mission, vision, working hard for a passionate mission. Many are doing much more, than what most governments can, or even willing to do.
They offer generous awards to nominated artists, who visually draw global attention to important issues that needs highlighting. Concerns like the environment, global warming, and forced migration.
The Mission
Prix Pictet, world mission relates to the Environment, Social Issues, and Sustainability, through the medium of photography. Organised in 10 rotating cycles, Human, Fire, Hope, Space, Disorder, Consumption, Power, Growth, Earth, Water. Artists are nominated, and invited to submit work, along the lines of one area per submission. It is all about the impact of visually communicating your concepts and ideas
The Prize
The nominators and Judges for the prize, are a group of leading experts in visual arts, from around the world.
Including museum and gallery directors, journalists, and art critics. In a working mode and manner, like members of a highly professional fraternity.
All are engaged with a global search for images with high artistic qualities, and narrative power, to fit the frame of each cycle, for the Prize. Founded in 2008, the selected works of the winners and shortlisted visual artists, tours the world for an extended period.
All over the globe, so far, Prix Pictet have not yet, placed on exhibition in Africa. We are still waiting and wondering why not? Non-profit art businesses, works in their own personal independent missions and projects. They are located on cultural ladders and size of activities.
Collecting Visual Art
Unfortunately, non-profit arts organisations rarely sell art. Generally, you can purchase work directly from artists, or an assigned artist representative.
Whether you are looking to acquire art for decorative purposes, as an investment, or for love and passion. Building a strong art collection, requires time and knowledge.
Visit Art Museums & Galleries
There are non-profit organisations, who can assist you to own visual art. In the mean time, start learning by visiting exhibitions, go to artist and curators’s conversations. There’s also open studio visits. Usually, they are free, especially when they are in public art spaces. Turn visiting museums and art galleries, into an hobby, or pleasant days out and about. Enjoy – Happy New year?