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For art teachers

A real juried art show — without hanging a single piece

Photograph what is on the drying rack, or upload files straight out of the lab. Every piece is scored against an art rubric with a written rationale, you verify the ranking, and every artist gets a certificate.

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No credit card • 30 students • 2 free contests every month

Teacher-verified · MeritBoard-certified FERPA & COPPA-conscious We never train AI on student work

What makes this hard today

You are asked to judge students you see every day

Ranking your own studio is the least comfortable thing you do all year. A rubric-scored first pass takes the personality out of it and leaves you as the verifier, not the villain.

The outside juror falls through in March

The show is on the calendar and the volunteer judge has stopped answering email. This does not depend on anyone showing up.

Ceramics and digital pieces never get judged together

Physical art and digital art each have their own rubric — technique and craft for the wheel, intentionality and composition for the tablet — so a kiln piece and a Procreate piece can both place in the same season.

The work goes home and the family never sees it framed

Each winner gets a teacher-verified, MeritBoard-certified award page and a printable certificate. Families share the page; the piece itself can go home the same day.

How it works for you

  1. 1

    Pick physical art or digital art

    Each type carries its own rubric. Add custom criteria if your unit was about one specific thing — value, negative space, colour theory.

  2. 2

    Photograph it or upload it

    A phone photo of a drawing on the rack is enough. Digital files upload directly. Students can submit by link with no account.

  3. 3

    The computer scores and writes the reasoning

    Technique and craft, originality, composition, expressive power — with a short paragraph for each piece explaining the score.

  4. 4

    You verify and publish the show

    Reorder anything you disagree with, then Confirm & Publish. You get a public results page, certificates, and share cards.

Before you start

Can a computer really score art?

It does the first pass, consistently, against the same four criteria for every piece — which is more than a rushed human juror does at 9pm. You read the reasoning and you make the final call.

Is student artwork used to train AI models?

Never. Images are sent to our providers only to score that contest and are never used to train or improve any model.

What about students whose families do not want them online?

Results start private. Public pages show a first name and last initial or a screen name, and any student can be excluded from public display entirely.

Do I have to pay to run the spring show?

The free plan covers 30 students and two contests a month. Bigger rosters move to Pro at $12/mo; whole schools have seat-banded plans.

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  • How scoring works
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  • Printable parent flyer

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Give every artist in the room a result

Photograph the rack tonight. Publish the show tomorrow.

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