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Are you looking for a place to show your art and engage in conversation about it? Do you wish you knew of a place where you could go to get positive, constructive feedback about your art? Maybe you're a professional artist who would like to help and encourage other artists by providing them with invaluable advice and answers based upon your many years of experience. Well friends - it's time to put yourselves in the Creative HotSeat.

Creative HotSeat is an online, critique community for artists. All artists may submit their completed works, works in progress, sketches, thumbnails, and even basic outlines for open peer-to-peer critiques and discussions.

Artist Mimi Lee launched Creative HotSeat as a way for student and professional artists to get varied opinions about their work - but mostly their works-in-progress. On the website, artists can submit their work(s) easily and have it posted for peer-to-peer critique. Creative HotSeat is essentially a rolling critique, where revisions are posted, and linked back to the original post. With this, reviewers and artists can gather an opinion of where the piece started and where it is going. Mimi encourages every visitor to the site to participate by posting work and also reviewing work. Her hope for Creative HotSeat is for it to become a tool for artists of all mediums to use regularly and provide them with an active voice in the art community.


Mimi would also like to see Creative HotSeat become a place where artists from many different regions of the world come to communicate, share, and experience the process of other artists in their field. Creative HotSeat has only been "live" for three weeks and already many students and several professionals from around the world have been posting assignment pieces and gallery works. There has even been an artist from Spain who has posted - very exciting to see!


Since the site is still in the very early stages, the importance of getting the word out there is high on Mimi's list. Creative HotSeat needs a larger community in order for artists to get a broad amount of feedback. Mimi's art school buddy and friend, Chris McGarry, has also jumped on board since the very beginning concept of Creative HotSeat. He has been helping to spread the word in the Philadelphia area. He also started a Facebook page for the website. Mimi says she would have never thought to use Facebook as a marketing tool if not for Chris. Together, they've been plastering the walls of Facebook art groups and pages with information on Creative HotSeat. They've received so much positive feedback from all types of groups and

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