JCAM, Vol.3, No.1
A Message from the Senior Editor It is June of 2017 and we are pleased to bring our readers Vol.3, No.1 of Jumbo Arts International’s “Journal of Creative Arts and Minds.” Now in our third year, we are more thrilled than ever to deliver this more highly evolved publication.
The JCAM is an extension of our core mission to support the arts, culture and performance through mutual understanding of life ways. It is a virtual space to gather, listen, learn and share creative passions on an international level. The JCAM content for the 2017 issues has been developed almost entirely through social media. Our publication has grown though electronic messaging and emails. It is built through cloud storage, published online, and viewable without restrictions, for free as a web-hosted PDF. As with our previous JCAM publications, the highly creative visual artists whose works are included in the June 2017 issue of JCAM represent a number of countries, cultures, media, ages, and levels of experience. We value our relationship with each artist. As such, each artist’s submission is held as unique and is allowed to evolve relatively unhindered given the technical limitations of our current publishing format.
The JCAM receives questions about submissions process every week. Our interactions with the visual artists and/or writers expressing interest is based solely on a dialogue about each person’s work. All submissions are subjected to a standardized editorial and juried review process. It is only after the editors and/or a panel of reviewers have juried a submission that an offer for possible publication is extended to a submitter. It is only then that the editorial process is shifted into a higher gear. The June 2017 issue has brought editorial challenges that were educational for both submitters and staff. For example, as with other issues the editors received text
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