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Originally Posted by Unregistered
I've only recently found this forum, and so far I'm impressed by the overall content, civility, and professional quality of the discourse here. I find I'm trusting of the information I glean from here maybe more than on some other forums. Because of that, I do wish there was greater participation and activity. Perhaps that is both the strength and weakness of limiting membership to juried portrait artists. But I certainly wouldn't advocate change.
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Thank you for your vote of confidence. Many artists who are active professionals simply do not have the time to participate and some simply don't have that teaching inclination - however, we are always hopeful that more pros will become involved. I do think you will find that many, many subjects have already been addressed over the years - thus decreasing the possible new subjects that could be addressed in the future.
We have gone thru our crisis periods, mostly precipitated by conflicts of personalities and communication styles. We've always asked that artists state their methods without denigrading the methods of others and to keep posts diplomatic and respectful of others. Unfortunately, through some incidents where this was not honored, we have lost some valuable contributors.