This form defaults to "Artist Call" which is the correct form for hiring a commissioned artist. If you are working on a project and are in search of a fabrication partner, please click "Industry Call" and fill out that version of the form to best reach our industry partners.

On first screen of the posting form, you will see fields for-

Project Title
Artwork Budget – As of this writing, both minimum and maximum budget numbers are required
Keyword tags – Artists add tags to their profile, and can sort our commissions page to match their tags.
Application Open & Close Dates – both are required.
Commissioning Organization
Project Location
Geographic Eligibility

Project Brief

Our form provides a project brief section where you can give a brief description of your opportunity.

As of this writing, we have a 4000 character limit in the project brief section.

These fields offer some text styling options, allowing you to bold, italicize, underline, and strikethrough. You can also align text left, center text, align text right, as well as make numbered lists and make bulleted lists.

You can also paste in images, hyperlinks and other inline styling from a word processor like Google Docs or MS Word:

Resources

This section is typically where you can share your commission document, and any other resources you want to include on your post.

To upload a commission document file:

Select a file from your computer, make sure the checkbox is checked, and then click "Insert". We are accepting .PDF only, since PDF files can be accessed on any web browser, and don't require special software to read.

To insert a link to your commission document:

Paste your link in the Commission URL input box under the upload button

To add additional resources:

You also have the option to add additional PDF documents (for example, for site renderings) and an image gallery if you like:

Selecting Submission Method

Option 1: Accept Applications on CODAworx for Free

Our form will default to Accept applications on CODAworx for free.

Our free mode will ask applicants for the following fields:

Applicant profile info including company name, job title, contact number, website & email address
Resume
Letter of Interest
Team Members
Samples of Work which entails one image per project, along with accompanying info such as project location, client, budget, dimension and medium

Option 2: Add a link to an application form on external site or an email address

If you would like to specify an external link to your application form for your call, and use our listings as a free classified service, you can do that by clicking the "Add Custom Link" option circled on the screenshot below:

You will then be able to paste a url to your open call listing posted anywhere online:

Both "Save & Continue" and "Save & Exit" will save your application form link.

Option 3: Upgrade the Commissioner Toolkit to Customize your application form and enable Committee Jurying on the CODAworx site.

If you choose to Upgrade you will get to:

Enable round based committee jurying
Decide how many samples of work you want to include
Add custom questions to your application form
COMING SOON: Accept videos as samples of work

For example, you can use custom questions to ask for Applicants' references, as shown below-

Preview and Publish Your Call

You will see three options at the bottom of the screen- Preview, Save as Draft, and Publish.

Here is an explanation of each one-

PREVIEW:

Preview will take you to a link that will show what your post will look like with all of the fields you've filled out earlier in the form.

From here, you can click the three dots menu directly to the right of the "Buy Blast" button to go back and edit, or publish your call.

SAVE AS DRAFT:

If you choose to save as a draft, you will be taken to your commission dashboard at

https://www.codaworx.com/rfp/my-rfp/my-commissions

From here, you should be able to edit, or archive, any of your opportunity postings with the three dots menu, directly to the right of the "Buy Blast" button on each listing.

PUBLISH:

If you choose publish, and today's date is before the open date you choose, the call will publish on your open date, and expire after your close date.

If today's date is between the open and close date you choose, your call will publish immediately.

As long as no applicants have applied, you will be able to edit any any fields of the call. However, once applicants begin to apply, certain fields will become edit locked, like the number of samples of work and custom questions.

Choosing published will take you to your commission dashboard, where you should see "Published" in the upper right hand corner.

From here, you can click the title of your call to navigate to your posting.

You can the share URL (Highlighted above in yellow) to your posting as far and wide as you would like.

If you've opted to host applications through CODAworx, you should see additional headers for Overview, Selection Process, Blast, and Applicants. (Circled in Green above) These items will be covered in forthcoming jurying guide.

If you would like CODAworx to promote your opportunity to our contacts, please fill out the "Buy Blast" payment form.

And that concludes our opportunity posting guide! Thank you for reading.

If you have any questions or feedback, please reach out to:

Sebastian Norback

Product Manager

sebastian@codaworx.com

How do you post a call on CODAworx?

Our open call system balances simplicity and flexibility.

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