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Submission Guidelines

Art Doll Quarterly would like to offer YOU a unique opportunity to publish your creative, handmade dolls. Our "Show & Tell" pages are especially designed to provide our readers an opportunity to share their dolls with a larger audience. We’re looking for submissions of creative art dolls of all types.

Along with your handmade submission, please provide us with some basic information on how you made and/or embellished each doll or figure. Multiple submissions of different dolls are always welcome.

The publisher carefully considers each and every submission. We only stipulate two criteria regarding your submissions: They must be handmade, and they must be dolls. The more "wildly creative and expressive" you are, the better! Your doll doesn’t necessarily have to be human in shape; consider making soft animals or creations based on geometric designs or figures from nature.

If your artwork is selected for publication, you will receive a coupon for a FREE issue of Art Doll Quarterly™. This offer includes the current issue, available back issues, or a one-issue extension to an existing subscription—it’s your choice.

To construct your doll, you may use any media. Look through the pages of this issue for ideas and unusual techniques. Here are a few additional suggestions: Try using various fabrics, papers, metal, wire, glass, plastic, twigs and other natural items, found objects, old photographs, inks, dyes, paints, beads, buttons, charms, ribbons, lace, ephemera, photo transfers, Lazertran, rubber stamps, stencils, brayers, embossing powders, polymer clay, watch parts, broken jewelry pieces, threads and fibers, or whatever tickles your fancy.

Here’s how to participate in upcoming issues:

  • Your artwork must arrive at our offices on or before the deadlines listed; please have them in the mail at least two weeks prior to the deadline to avoid late delivery.
  • We prefer to receive original work so that we can photograph the pieces in keeping with the magazine’s graphic design. However, we can accept professional-quality 4" x 5" transparencies, 35mm color slides, or 300-dpi digital images (TIF or JPG format) on CD. Please include color copies or proof sheets with transparencies or CD.
  • All artwork must be properly identified with the artist’s name and address clearly printed on a label attached to each submission. No exceptions, please! As the artwork may be separated from instructions during our selection process, we ask that you be very careful to inscribe your name and address somewhere on each piece of art if at all possible; for example, affix a preprinted address label to the inside of a doll’s clothing, or attach your identification with a removable string, or pack the sample in a plastic bag with your identification. Artwork that has not been properly identified cannot be considered for publication.
  • Concise yet thorough instructions must accompany each submission so that we may share this information with our readers. Attach individual sample instructions to each piece of artwork you submit. If you use rubber art stamps, please include the stamp company names.
  • For acknowledgment of artwork receipt, please include a self-addressed stamped postcard.

Artwork Return Policy

Due to the large volume of artwork we receive, it is a requirement of your submission to Art Doll Quarterly™ that you include sufficient funds to cover postage for the return of your doll. If you wish to have your artwork insured for the return journey, please include sufficient funds and indicate your preference in a postcard or a letter enclosed with your submission.

You may send cash, check or money order in US funds made out to Art Doll Quarterly™ for artwork return. Please do NOT send us loose postage stamps! Heightened security measures at the US Post Office have rendered it impossible for us to mail out packages with stamps.

Sometimes, a piece of artwork submitted for one issue may be better suited for an upcoming issue, so we may have to hold your sample for up to six months. If you need your doll back urgently—for a show or a special event, etc.—please indicate this in your submission information.

Upcoming Deadlines:

Spring 2009 issue: September 15, 2008

Summer 2009 issue: December 15, 2008

Autumn 2009 issue: March 13, 2009

Winter 2010 issue: June 15, 2008

Writers’ Submissions

The contents of Art Doll Quarterly™ will be primarily dolls, dolls, and more dolls. This is what our readers have asked for, and we mean to deliver! We also will offer a few articles in each issue outlining various aspects of dollmaking, including fabric painting, dyeing, stamping, and stenciling techniques, quilting, embroidery and beading ideas, polymer clay, and using found objects for embellishment.

If you have an unusual technique that you would like to share with our readers, please submit a letter outlining your idea along with your doll. If the editors are interested, they will contact you.

Please note: If the technique you wish to share with our readers was learned in a class, a workshop, or from an art or craft book, Art Doll Quarterly™ requires that you give credit to the author or teacher who instructed you.

All samples, queries, and correspondence should be forwarded to Staci Dumoski, Managing Editor, Art Doll Quarterly, 22992 Mill Creek, Suite B, Laguna Hills CA 92653, USA. No telephone calls, please. The editor welcomes brief e-mail queries: sdumoski@stampington.com.


  
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