CALL for ENTRIES:
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I believe that food has a sense of place.  When you eat cotton candy, don’t you think of going to the fair?  When I taste boiled peanuts (Yes, Virginia, they do exist), I am instantly transported to South Carolina.  You have associations of your own, no doubt. This Call is named Sense of Place, but it isn’t a theme.  Maybe it comes from the enormous sense of place felt even through photographs of this beautiful gallery space.  Inspired yet?

Check out this Call for Entries from the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art in Augusta, GA for the 2011 National Juried Exhbition: A Sense of Place.  The entry fee is low, and once again, the juror is well-documented and happens to be a printmaker, although many media are embraced.  This looks like a winner…

CALL for ENTRIES:  A Sense of Place

The Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art (GHIA) is pleased to announce its 2011 juried fine art competition, A Sense of Place.  Open to participants from throughout the United States, this 31st annual event seeks to recognize the outstanding quality and diversity of work being generated by contemporary American artists. 

Founded in 1937 and housed in the historic Nicholas Ware mansion (c. 1818), GHIA is Augusta’s only independent nonprofit visual arts school and gallery.  The Institute serves as a showcase for local, regional, and national artists, offering rotating exhibitions of outstanding contemporary artwork year-round.  In addition, professionally taught studio art classes in a wide variety of media are provided to students of all ages and experience levels.

ELIGIBILITY:  The 2011 juried fine art competition is open to all US artists age 18 and older.  All works must be original, not previously exhibited at the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, and completed on or after June 1, 2009.

MEDIA: Painting, drawing, mixed media, printmaking, photography, ceramics, and sculpture.  Film and video pieces are ineligible.  The exhibition is not judged in media categories.

DEADLINE:  Postmarked by June 3, 2011.

NOTIFICATION:  Mailed July 22, 2011. *Editor’s Note:  Just allow me to say “Wow!”  GHIA still sends REAL letters. 

ENTRY FEE:  A non-refundable fee of $30 enables each artist to enter up to three works; additional works may be submitted at a cost of $5 each.  Please submit one digital image per work; one additional detail image will be accepted for three dimensional works.  Complete the entry form portion of the prospectus and return along with the required entry fee (checks, MasterCard and Visa accepted).  Please also include a self-addressed stamped envelope for mailing of the notification letter.

JUROR:  Tom Hammond, noted printmaker and professor emeritus at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, will serve as juror for A Sense of Place 2011.  Over the past thirty years Hammond has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows throughout the United States and abroad.  His work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Royal Museum of Art, Antwerp, Belgium; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina.  Hammond holds a master of arts from East Carolina University and also studied at Atelier 17 in Paris.

AWARDS: Three cash prizes will be given, including a $750 Best of Show Award and two $500 Juror’s Awards.  Award recipients will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception on Friday, September 16, 2011.

SALES:  Sales will be encouraged, and all works are assumed to be available for purchase unless designated “Not For Sale” (NFS).  A 35% gallery commission will be charged on sales of all exhibited artwork.

For complete details, Download the Prospectus!