- Ever wondered how a top art agent views your website?
- Want a children’s book art director to review your work?
- Want to know how to tweak your portfolio so you get work in the home décor market?
Now’s your chance to find out: we’re offering the rare opportunity for an exclusive 1:1 with your choice of one of our amazing teachers PLUS a place in our raved-about My Year of Art School LIVE, which includes every single one of our live courses for 2019 in our huge video testimonial competition to keep you creating over the festive period!
This is one of our stunning manifestos from former student Abigail Halpin which sums up what we’re all about. Now we’d like to hear what you love about Make Art That Sells, whether it’s the courses as a whole, a favourite class, our amazingly supportive community, our outstanding teachers, the boost it’s given to your career, the way it’s stretched your art or whatever you like!
Make Art That Sells manifesto by MATS student Abigail Halpin
This is an AMAZING opportunity!
What you win:
- A private 1:1 with your choice of our renowned teachers: top art agent Lilla, brilliant children’s book art director Zoë, or fabulous home décor creative director Margo
- A place on our outstanding, YEAR-LONG My Year of Art School LIVE, featuring every single one of our highly acclaimed live courses in 2019.
- You’ll create a knockout children’s book pitch in Illustrating Children’s Books
- You’ll build an actionable strategy for success in MATS Money BadAss
- You’ll find out everything you need to get work in the cool and lucrative editorial market in Editorial Live
- You’ll get fun on-trend assignments from a top art agent every Monday for four months in Assignment Bootcamp 2019
- … and much, much more!
By the end of 2019 you will have an outstanding portfolio and everything you need to take your creative career to the next level so you’ll be crushing it as a professional artist!
- A tote bag! And to make sure you look especially fabulous when you’re out and about, we’ll also give you a gorgeous Lilla Rogers Studio tote bag, and maybe throw in some goodies from Lilla’s artists too.
PLUS Lilla will be reviewing all entries and choosing the grand prize winner, so it’s an amazing opportunity to get your work in front of a leading art agent, and, if chosen, your video will be heavily promoted and seen by the many art directors and agents that follow our social media feeds and subscribe to our newsletter.
Oh yeah, and it’s a great way to have some creative fun over the holidays!
How to enter
The competition is open to the whole of the MATS community, and we want to know what you love about MATS! What’s your favorite thing? How has MATS helped your career? Is there one course that stands out above the others or do you love them all? What successes have you had? What jobs have you gotten? The subject and scope is up to you as long as it’s celebrating Make Art That Sells in some way. We can’t wait to see what you’re going to do!
Your video should be no longer than a minute and closing date is January 10th at midnight PDT.
Guidelines
- Subject: what you love about MATS and/or your successes/projects you’ve gotten etc! The subject and scope is up to you as long as it’s celebrating Make Art That Sells in some way.
- Video length: up to one minute long
Format: this is completely up to you as long as it’s video:
- you can record yourself talking
- animate your own video
- table top view showing your work from class or work you’ve gotten as a result of taking MATS classes
- drawings
- show movement
- or anything else!
- Be sure to include your full name and why you love MATS!
TO SUBMIT:
Email your video (or use file transfer) to [email protected] before midnight (PST) January 10th.
Below are some more fun videos from our previous competition to inspire you! You’ll see that they’re all quite different in style, because MATS encourages you to be true to your own unique way of making art.
Rules
- Maximum one entry per person.
- Any and all work submitted must be your own.
- You give permission to Make Art That Sells to use any images you submit to this competition in any current or future class-related marketing or promotional strategies, online or offline. You will always be credited and will retain the rights to your work.
- The winner will be chosen by Lilla Rogers.
- All submissions must be emailed to [email protected]. Submissions sent elsewhere and/or in the incorrect format will not be considered as entries to the competition.
- Any submissions received after the closing time of 11:59 PM PST on January 10th, 2019 will not be eligible.
- This competition is open to anyone over the age of 18 from any country.
- There is no cash alternative.
- If you win and have already registered for My Year of Art School LIVE, we will refund you.
- Exclusive Skype with Lilla, Zoë or Margo to be scheduled at a mutually convenient time and to last up to 60 minutes.
- Have fun!
Diane Neukirch
Anne Bollman
Harriet Mellor
Previous testimonial video by MATS student Tjarda Borsboom
Previous testimonial video by MATS student Carla Martell
Previous testimonial video by MATS student Ohn Mar Win
Good luck!
Love
The MATS team xxx
