Welcome to Wit,Wonder and Whimsy! the online journal by and for homeschoolers in the arts.
GROUND RULES FOR SUBMISSIONS
Please remember this is a family oriented publication. I will not publish materials inappropriate for this journal. The works I reject may be very worthy of artistic comment and scrutiny and may actually be quite good but this is simply not the appropriate forum. Rejection of any work is not a value judgement or criticism of the work itself but merely a choice made regarding the appropriateness of a piece of work for this particular journal.
WHERE TO SEND
To submit your work, please send it via email to:
Connie@dhsa.org
FORMAT
I can upload images in jpeg or gif formats and read both Word and Appleworks documents. More in the future about submitting digital video clips. Any art form is accepted, so long as you can email it to me, including but not limited to visual art pieces such as drawing painting sculpture, pottery, weaving, clothing design, quilt design or other forms of design work, stories, poems, essays, photographs, digital video clips, soundbites, pod casts, reviews, etc., etc., etc. Visual and performing artist will need to get someone with a digital camera or a scanner to help them email a image of their work.
WHO CAN SUBMIT WORK
Any homeschooler of any age can submit work. I would like to encourage our adult homeschoolers, parents, grandparents, college students, cousins or friends to submit work as well. Although our focus is on the homeschooling community, art does not live in a vacuum. Viewing the work of others can inspire, spark and encourage our younger homeschooled authors and artists!
PRIVACY
I will only publish the author or artist's first name or an alias, as well as age, city and state of the artist or author's residence. However, I do need to have complete information in my personal files as well as a statement of permission to publish the work. This statement must be signed (see below) by both the author/artist and a parent or guardian. I will call or email you if I have any questions. I WILL NOT share personal information with anyone for any reason. If I am contacted about some one's work, I will forward the correspondence to the guardian of the author or artist and will leave solely to their discretion whether to reply. I will not forward or respond to any inappropriate comments but will simply throw them out and label the incoming email address as junk.
IMAGES OF OTHER PEOPLE
If your artwork includes images (photo or video) of any person, you must inform them that you have submitted the work for publication in this online journal and get their permission. You must inform me that you have obtained permission when you submit your work or I will not be able to publish the work. I will not publish the names of any individual portrayed in any photographic or video image. (Unless it is part of the title, is only a first name and you have permission.)
COLD FEET
Once something is published, I am still able to remove it from the archive. I will need a permission statement and certification to remove the work, similar to the permission to publish. the statement must come from the same email address and must include the same full name of artist and guardian and other identifying information that was included with the original submission. You can email me if you have any questions: Connie@dhsa.org
HAVE FUN!
Well, this is all much more weighty and officious than I would like it to be. This publication is meant to be about having fun and sharing. We just need to be sure that we are not harming anyone in the process. I sincerely believe in art as a form of communication and personal expression. In other words, once created it needs to go out into the world. It is my deepest desire for my young homeschooling artists, families and friends that Wit, Wonder and Whimsy! will create a vehicle for homeschoolers to do just that, to share their work with the world and to see the work of others. In this way art will fulfill its most noblest of purposes, to allow us to briefly see this world through the eyes of another and thereby to better understand each other and our world.
Please feel free to contact me if you have questions about any of this.
Connie@dhsa.org
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Submission Form
1. Information to be published.
*Title of Work
*Date created
*Medium or Media
*Format and Size of Original Work
*First name or Alias
*Age
*City and State
(If you do not want any of the above published, be sure to let me know)
2. Information for my files;
Confidential, private and not to be released, made public or otherwise disclosed.
Full Name of Author or Artist
Full Name of Adult and Legal Guardian
Email address
Phone Number
Address
3. Required Statements: cut, paste, fill in the blanks:
* I, (name), certify that:
* (name of work), is original and my own work and the work of (names of all collaborators).
* I have permission from all persons appearing in my work to use and publish their image.
* I grant permission for my work to be published in and to promote the Wit, Wonder and Whimsy! online journal and related activities. Connie, dhsa and Wit, Wonder and Whimsy! is not seeking any copyright interest in my work.
* I understand that, because my work is being submitted via email, my certification statement below is intended to be in lieu of my signature.
* Certified by: (name of artist) and (name of guardian).
* Date (the date you are certifying this statement)
EMAIL your submission to:
Connie@dhsa.org
