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Accepting a Jury Invitation
JurorsUpdated Sep 21, 2026
An organization has invited you to help select work for one of its calls. This article covers accepting the invitation, what you will see when you start reviewing, and how to declare a conflict of interest.
Your invitation email
The invitation comes from the organization and names the call, who invited you, the jury period, roughly how many submissions you will review, and any compensation. The button is Accept Invitation & Register.
The link is personal to you and expires. Most invitations are good for a week, and some are longer. If yours has expired, the page offers to send you a fresh one, or you can ask the organization directly.
Accepting
Clicking the button opens the jury registration page.
If you are new to Crafted Call, you will see Welcome to Crafted Call with the invitation details, then a short form: your First Name, Last Name, a Password, and optionally a Phone Number for urgent messages about jury duties and a Professional Bio describing your background. Choose Complete Registration.
If you already have a Crafted Call account at the invited email address, there is no form. You see Accept Your Jury Invitation and a single Accept Invitation button. Nothing is accepted until you press it.
Either way, your account gets juror access, you are assigned to review the call named in the invitation, and you are sent to sign in. After signing in, a Jurying section appears in your sidebar with Jury Dashboard and Active Reviews. Reviewing is only open during the jury period the organization set.
Reviewing submissions
Open Jury Dashboard, then the call you are reviewing. What you see depends on how the organization set the round up.
A numeric score on the scale they chose, such as 1 to 5 or 1 to 10.
A rubric, where you score several named criteria and can add a note against each one. Your running total shows as you go.
Triage, a quick Yes, Maybe or No vote that saves as soon as you click it.
A ranking, putting submissions in order.
Per-image scoring, where each image is scored and averaged.
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Below the scoring you can leave Overall Feedback on the submission. You can also Skip a submission and come back to it.
Your progress is shown as you work: how many you have scored, skipped and have left, the percentage complete, and a rough time remaining. When you finish a batch you get a short confirmation that your scores are saved.
Keyboard shortcuts move you through faster. Press ? at any time for the full list. The arrow keys move between submissions, number keys enter a numeric score, and y, m and n cast a triage vote.
Discussion and private notes
Each submission has a Discussion panel. When you post, a switch chooses whether the comment is Shared with jury or a Private note that only you can see. Comments default to shared.
Use @ in a comment to mention another juror.
If the round is under blind review, discussion is hidden until the blind period ends, so the panel is not swayed by who said what first.
Blind review
An organization can run any round blind. In a blind round, artist identities and prices are hidden from you. You score the work, not the name.
Conflicts of interest
If you know an artist personally, taught them, or have any stake in the outcome, declare it. Do it from Conflicts of Interest in the review interface.
Choose Conflicts of Interest.
Under Declare New Conflict, search for the artist by name or email.
Add a Reason (optional), such as a former student or a colleague.
Choose Declare Conflict.
That artist's submissions are then hidden from your review queue. You can remove a conflict you declared yourself; one the organizer declared for you stays until they change it.
During a blind round you cannot declare a conflict yourself, because artist identities are hidden. Contact the organizer instead and they will handle it.
What you can and cannot see about other jurors
You do not see another juror's individual scores. What you can see is a Calibration view comparing your average against the panel average and median, with a note if your scoring is drifting away from everyone else's. It stays hidden until at least three other jurors have started scoring, so no small sample can tell you how a particular colleague voted.
Working sessions
Above the submission you will find four modes. Compare puts submissions side by side. Shortlist works your shortlist. Calibration is the panel comparison above. Meeting is a presentation view for a live jury discussion, with no scores on screen.
There is also a focus mode for distraction-free reviewing. Press f to enter it and Escape to leave.
Reminders and deadlines
If the organization has reminders turned on, you get an email as the deadline approaches, typically a week out, three days out, the day before, and four hours before. It names how many submissions you have left and shows the deadline in the organization's own timezone.
You can turn jury emails off through your email preferences, but you will then need to track the deadline yourself.
Doing the job well
Be consistent. Apply the same standard to the first submission and the hundredth.
Say why. A comment explaining your reasoning is far more useful to the organization than a bare score.
Declare conflicts early, including one you notice partway through.
Keep it confidential. Do not share submission images, artist information, or decisions before the organization announces them.
Finish on time. The organization cannot make decisions until the panel is done.
Troubleshooting
My invitation link does not work.
Links expire. The page offers to send a fresh invitation, or contact the organization.
I do not see a Jurying section after signing in.
It only appears once you hold a jury assignment. If you accepted and it is still missing, contact the organization.
I cannot score a submission.
Reviewing is only open during the jury period. Check the dates in your invitation.
An artist I know is in my queue.
Declare a conflict from Conflicts of Interest and their submissions are removed from your queue.
