An exhibition organised through an open call starts long before anyone decides where the selected work will hang. Submissions have to arrive, jurors need a way to assess them and the chosen pieces eventually need to become a show rather than remain a folder of accepted entries.
curate.tours extends its 3D exhibition platform into that earlier part of the process through the Gallery tier. Its institutional Open Call Portal and Jury Desk support art societies and painting guilds moving from submissions and scoring towards a published virtual exhibition.
Start With the Open Call
An open call establishes the pool from which the exhibition will be built. curate.tours supports publishing an open call and collecting submissions from members and non-members, bringing the intake stage into the same platform used for the eventual 3D presentation.
That gives the organising team a defined route from receiving work to developing the exhibition. The process begins with entries rather than with an empty gallery waiting to be filled.
For societies that run recurring juried shows, selection and presentation can remain part of one broader process. Once entries have been assessed, the chosen work can continue towards the 3D exhibition stage rather than ending the digital workflow at a list of results.
Give Jury Review Its Own Structure
Once submissions are in, the next job is deciding which works should advance. curate.tours includes a Jury Desk that allows jury members to be assigned to score entries.
The platform documents four assessment criteria: Originality, Technique, Concept and Curatorial Fit. Separate criteria give jurors a structured way to consider different qualities of an entry rather than reducing every decision to one undifferentiated score.
Curatorial Fit also keeps the eventual exhibition in sight. It gives the review process a criterion concerned with how an entry belongs within the show being assembled, alongside qualities of the individual work.
