[MR] A&S issue

[Phillip Jones]

We are on the same page. I've submitted projects and received no comments at 
all. I know that my wood-work is of high quality; I get hundrds of dollars 
for a box in the outside world.  I feel like there is an "old guard" in both 
Pelican and A&S who don't recall where the bar was set when they got 
started.

Ghaltai (Ash Tie)

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gerita della Mara
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 5:23 PM
To: atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Subject: [MR] A&S issue


Enough time has passed that I hope I can address this calmly.  I
certainly could not at the time.

I have entered several A&S competitions this past year.  I have not
entered with the plan of winning, but just for the fun of "putting my
stuff out there" and maybe getting a few pointers from those who are
ahead of me in a craft (and there are many).  At least twice,
competition rules have said "Documentation encouraged" one even added
"but not necessary".  I found that interesting in the light of my work
being scored (at zero) for the same documentation that was stated to be
not needed.

Again, I would beg judges to recall their early efforts in the Medieval
Arts.  Comments I have received have been nasty to the point of
discouraging me to participate any further and take my art into a deep
dark corner all by myself.  Since I've spent nearly 30 years in and out
of the SCA, teaching much of that time, I cannot see how that could be
considered encouraging to participants.  This last competition was
amazing in that regard.  The utter rudeness of judges' comments....with
not one constructive thing offered...was really off-putting.

The really hard-to-swallow bit of this is that I hear the above comments
from many people, the great majority of which are, or should be,
artisans of note.  But they are not.  Why?  Because they've quit letting
their fellow SCAdians see their work for fear of more harshness, more
not following the published rules, etc.

No, I will not name names, nor events.  Otherwise, I'd like to
participate in an effort to stop this sort of stuff.

Still dreaming...

Gerita

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