{"id":2379,"date":"2023-11-29T16:44:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T15:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:23:28","slug":"artavita-art-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/en\/artavita-art-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Artavita Art Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>When I started painting, I didn't have big goals or dreams like exhibiting in New York in front of 50,000 people. I just wanted to be a little better and do a little more year after year. First I started studying with my Master, then a few years later I made the website, then I started entering smaller competitions and accepting opportunities, and when I started to have smaller successes, I began to try bigger bites.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This American call for entries, announced by the company operating World Wide Art and Artavita, was quite a big bite. The company's profile includes publishing art books, organizing exhibitions, participating in major expos, and operating as an online gallery. The prize of the competition is that a single person is selected to be represented for free at the 2024 New York Art Expo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The entry fee for the competition was minimal, so I figured I\u2019d submit mine too, with the calm assurance of someone who has no chance of winning.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The shock hit me a few days ago when I received an email from them: \u201eDear Ruth! I am pleased to inform you that you are a winner of the latest Artavita contest with your paintings \u201eFriendships,\u201e \u201dPolitics,\u201e and \u201dLost Eden.\u201d Judging the competition was difficult as a great number of remarkable works were submitted. Out of a total of 1739 works entered by 641 artists, 125 artists were selected for the finals. As a winner, you are entitled to exhibit these three works without a participation fee in the pavilion of Artexpo New York from April 4-7, 2024. ...\"<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I honestly tell you that I cried. My Master K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Gasztonyi's sentence came to my mind at my last solo exhibition: \u201eRuth, with these paintings like \u201eFriendships\u201d and \u201ePolitics\u201d, you would hold your ground in any New York gallery.\u201d And he was right! Back then, he already saw what I just took for kind words. Thank you, my Master!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"636\" data-id=\"2381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/New-York-Art-Expo-2023-1024x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/New-York-Art-Expo-2023-1024x636.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/New-York-Art-Expo-2023-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/New-York-Art-Expo-2023-768x477.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/New-York-Art-Expo-2023-1536x954.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/New-York-Art-Expo-2023-2048x1272.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/New-York-Art-Expo-2023-1320x820.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/New-York-Art-Expo-2023-600x373.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projektek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthschmidt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"Well played","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}