Art Vérité

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Art Vérité

Art Vérité is the blog of Juniper Rag, a digital platform showcasing visual art, design, and culture known for its edgy, avant-garde approach to art and lifestyle, bridging traditional/contemporary creativity with a strong focus on emerging and innovative art forms. Juniper Rag combines art criticism with thought-provoking articles, connecting with creative and intellectual audiences.

Juniper Rag’s ability to stand out lies in our unique dedication to community building, accessible, digital exhibitions, and activist-driven content.

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10 Strategies to Leverage Your Exhibitions

When exhibiting your work or being curated by a prominent curators in the arts, Instagram becomes a powerful tool for amplifying your visibility and building lasting momentum for your career. A strategic approach to sharing content, crafting stories, and maintaining momentum is key to turning this opportunity into long-term success. Utilize your opportunities. We see so many artists missing the boat.

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3 Ways to Engage More Viewers Today

Successful artists connect their art with viewers in order to resonate with them and attract them to return. Using emotive descriptions, your personal history and impactful narratives are ways to connect people to visual art pieces. You can incorporate connection-building strategies every day in practice to engage viewers. Pictured: Stephanie Todhunter

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Artist Goals, Rock Stars and Relationships

Goals may be long term, but fine artists knowing this early may help you make the right connections along the way to lead to eventual breaks. Let’s focus on mid-career visual artists who want to make moves to advance. Relationships are key. [Art: Sally Stanton]

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Forward-Thinking Artists Break Down Barriers

Virtual art exhibitions with platforms like Juniper Rag represent a forward-thinking approach to art viewing, aligning seamlessly with our increasingly digital world. In a time when technology is reshaping nearly every aspect of daily life, virtual exhibitions break down physical and geographical barriers, making art accessible to a global audience. Juniper Rag is co-founded by Atelier ID Global, marketing professionals that apply SEO and a strategic approach.

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NFTs, Let’s Set the Record Straight

Juniper Rag looks at a lot of artist profiles on social media. Like everything that is new, scammers with manipulate any situation to take advantage of people that don’t know about something or how it works. Adding “NO NFTs” to your profile does nothing, except indicate and identifies you as not understanding how NFTs work. We are learning about NFTs too and want to share what we know. The future is here, we encourage adoption of these newfangled contraptions.

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Does Your Home Have Soul?

Create a rich and inspiring environment that nurtures creativity, learning, and emotional well-being. Original art and books add so much personality and a magical soul to you home. Learn some things you don’t need to know about my Zillow addiction and how you can improve the value of your environment with art.

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Bold Predictions for the Future of Art | Michelle May

In the next decade, Juniper Rag predicts that art is poised to transcend the boundaries currently defining it, reshaping not only how we experience it but how we create, share, and value it. The future of art will be dynamic, decentralized, and deeply intertwined with the digital world--participatory, immersive, and decentralized.

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Gotta Show Up + Get Shit Done

As an artist, or any business person, your network is everything. When you are out there in the wild, using your arsenal of contacts is how you get shit done. Introducing people that can be strategic partners or collaborators also makes you a valuable contact. If you want success, you have to act.

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Edgy Submission Strategies

Do you want an edge when submitting your artwork? Learn from people who view thousands of artist documents. This kind of insight can help you reshape your presentation and present an elevated representation of yourself and your work. We wish we could give feed back to every submitter, but there are two of us here at Juniper Rag.

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5 Benefits of Virtual Art Exhibitions

As creatives and consumers, we are in the tech age and progress is happening exponentially. There will be more virtual experiences in our future and they will be magnificent. Immersive art, immersive worlds, but for now, let’s get your art out in front of as many people as we can. When you work with us, you have a marketing team behind you for very little in expense. We love offering this to artists anywhere in the world. We present compelling information about platforms like Juniper Rag.

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2025 Art Marketing Strategies

Emerging artists in 2025 face a dynamic and increasingly digital landscape that offers a wide range of opportunities to sell their art. To thrive, they must adopt a multifaceted approach.

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Edge of Dreams | The Work of Natasha Dikareva

"Edge of Dreams" presents a scene where ancient gods and enduring archetypes find themselves tangled in the strange and often baffling threads of modern life. Discover the art of Natasha Dikareva, showing soon in Concord, MA.

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3 Easy Ways to Begin Collecting Art

Beginning an art collection can be a very rewarding and reflective way to make your home more unique and personal. When you choose art that speaks to you, bit of your personality shine and are displayed on your walls. This is rewarding personally because you revisit events, places and the stories of finding those pieces, or perhaps artist friends or vacations brought you to owning work and decorating your life with these treasures. Read on for three easy ways to begin collecting.

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Artists on Fire and Zucchini

Friday evening, July 19, 2024 we welcomed hundreds of visitors to the 3rd annual Artists on Fire, our 35th exhibition! We appreciate each one of the talented artists, especially those who shipped art from the other side of the country to be a part of “The Smalls Show”. All artwork is under $500 and under 24 x 24 inches. Artists on Fire, Krikorian Gallery, 25 Sagamore Road, Worcester on view until August 10, 2024.

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Everything is Collage

Contemporary collage artists are far from a monolith. Blending the eclectic realism of found source material—images from magazine spreads to scientific illustrations—with fantastical arrangement and a critical eye, these artists create worlds of symbolic mystique. Each of the following artists engages with the medium in a unique and intensely personalized way, tantalizing me with clues to this mystery: just why is collage so captivating?

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On a Continuum with Brenda Cirioni

Collecting new works from Brenda Cirioni invites a wild celebration of color and texture into your home. Her work is bold and inviting to the viewer, who has a sophisticated eye. These are not so much entry level pieces. These are confident, celebratory and echo the deep textures and layers of not just her gardens, but the process of reflection. There is also a rugged edge to Brenda’s work.

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Technology is Rapidly Impacting the Our World —for Artists and Viewers

Technology has brought about a profound transformation in the realm of art, reshaping both the process of creation for artists and the experience of consumption for viewers. We no longer view most art in person, but on our devices. With the advent of digital tools and platforms, artists now have a vast array of resources at their disposal, enabling them to experiment, collaborate, and distribute work with unprecedented ease—One reason we founded Juniper Rag.

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We’re Getting to the Good Part with Ingrid V. Wells

Artists like Ingrid V. Wells increasingly use their platforms to challenge societal norms and advocate for mental and physical well-being through their work. With this collection of oil on linen, Ingrid V. Wells paints about the journey of radical self-compassion. It is a fierce rebellion, she considers “pretty punk rock”, to stay in your joy when blanketed in seemingly depressing circumstances. With this body of work she responds to her personal puzzles with the aim of inspiring the viewer to greet challenges with curiosity. Ingrid’s paintings serve as a visual respite for joyful rebellion in the face of obstacles.

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