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Is anyone submitting an arts supplement for visual arts? I'm very confused about the process.
According to the Harvard website:
"Slides

* If you are sending slides, please label each mount with your legal name, date of birth and high school.
* Please insert all slides into clear plastic, notebook-style slide pages.
* Please send visual artwork only in slide format unless your work must be viewed in electronic form in order to be evaluated.
* Please choose a maximum of 12 slides representing your best work.
* Please indicate the total number of slides submitted in your cover letter."

What do they mean by "slides"? Glass slides? Printed hard copies enclosed in plastic envelopes?
Please help. Thanks.

Hat

"Slides" are generally one of two things produced by a camera which accepts "film". "Film" was used in cameras to produce pictures until the late 1900s when cameras with digital storage became more popular. Film produces either a "negative" which can then be used to "print" a picture or a "slide" which is a "positive" of the same thing. A "slide" looks like the item being photographed, however they are generally small (about 2" square, including the past-board surround). Generally, "slides" are viewed with a "slide projector" which enables multiple people to view the object at the same time (or prevents individuals from getting eye strain). You may be able to find a film camera in the possession of one of your elderly (over 30 years old) neighbors and you *may* be able to obtain the film for it at the local grocery store. If there is a camera store in your city, you may want to check it out. They will be able to assist you in loading the film camera.