What is upcoming in the gallery?
AWARDS TOTAL $3,000! The South Carolina Festival of Flowers Juried Art Show is a sanctioned exhibition hosted annually by The Arts Center of Greenwood in concurrence with the award-winning festival. The exhibition will be on view in the main gallery June 6 - August 3, 2024. The exhibition represents exemplary contemporary art throughout the state and southeast.
AWARDS TOTAL $3,000! The South Carolina Festival of Flowers Juried Art Show is a sanctioned exhibition hosted annually by The Arts Center of Greenwood in concurrence with the award-winning festival. The exhibition will be on view in the main gallery June 6 - August 3, 2024. The exhibition represents exemplary contemporary art throughout the state and southeast.
Awards
Best of Show | $1,000
2nd Place | $500
3rd Place | $300
Best of 3D | $400
Juried Merit Awards (3) | $200 (each)
Arts Center Merit Award (1) | $200
Event Calendar
May 26 | online entry deadline
May 28 | acceptance notification (via email)
June 1 | art delivery (10:00 am - 5:00 pm)
June 8 | opening reception and awards ceremony (3:00 - 5:00 pm, with ceremony @ 4:00 pm)
August 10 | art retrieval (10:00 am - 3:00 pm)
Entry Eligibility
Anyone 18 years or older may submit an art entry. All original works of art (not previously on view in a juried art show at The Arts Center of Greenwood) are eligible. Submitted artwork can include any media. If artwork is juried into the show, delivery and shipping are acceptable, but all shipped artwork must include a return label. All artwork must be securely and properly prepped for installation. No clip mounting will be accepted on wall-hanging works. If submitted artwork is not adequately prepped for display, it will be subject to removal from the exhibition. While there are no size restrictions, entries must be portable and capable for display in a conventional gallery setting. All double door frames in the gallery measure 70"X79" with a 90" diagonal and all submitted artwork must be transported through the doors. The Arts Center of Greenwood reserves the right to refuse any entry and to withdraw any work of art from exhibition at its discretion. At point of sale, The Arts Center of Greenwood will retain a 30% commission of the retail value of each artwork. A non-refundable, one-time entry fee of $35 is required for submission into the exhibition. Artists are limited to the submission of two entries.
Entry Option #1:
a) complete the online entry form + entry fee by the entry deadline
b) if accepted, deliver labeled artwork on the art delivery date
Best of Show | $1,000
2nd Place | $500
3rd Place | $300
Best of 3D | $400
Juried Merit Awards (3) | $200 (each)
Arts Center Merit Award (1) | $200
Event Calendar
May 26 | online entry deadline
May 28 | acceptance notification (via email)
June 1 | art delivery (10:00 am - 5:00 pm)
June 8 | opening reception and awards ceremony (3:00 - 5:00 pm, with ceremony @ 4:00 pm)
August 10 | art retrieval (10:00 am - 3:00 pm)
Entry Eligibility
Anyone 18 years or older may submit an art entry. All original works of art (not previously on view in a juried art show at The Arts Center of Greenwood) are eligible. Submitted artwork can include any media. If artwork is juried into the show, delivery and shipping are acceptable, but all shipped artwork must include a return label. All artwork must be securely and properly prepped for installation. No clip mounting will be accepted on wall-hanging works. If submitted artwork is not adequately prepped for display, it will be subject to removal from the exhibition. While there are no size restrictions, entries must be portable and capable for display in a conventional gallery setting. All double door frames in the gallery measure 70"X79" with a 90" diagonal and all submitted artwork must be transported through the doors. The Arts Center of Greenwood reserves the right to refuse any entry and to withdraw any work of art from exhibition at its discretion. At point of sale, The Arts Center of Greenwood will retain a 30% commission of the retail value of each artwork. A non-refundable, one-time entry fee of $35 is required for submission into the exhibition. Artists are limited to the submission of two entries.
Entry Option #1:
a) complete the online entry form + entry fee by the entry deadline
b) if accepted, deliver labeled artwork on the art delivery date
Entry Option #2:
a) print and complete the printable entry form
b) mail the printed entry form + CD/Jump Drive with high resolution image of art entry + entry fee (120 Main Street, Greenwood, SC 29646)
a) print and complete the printable entry form
b) mail the printed entry form + CD/Jump Drive with high resolution image of art entry + entry fee (120 Main Street, Greenwood, SC 29646)
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Juror Biography
Michael Marks was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and spent his formative years growing up in rural Georgia. He has lived throughout the Southeast and worked as an artist and educator for over two decades. An advocate for the arts, he was a co-founder and director of the ThreeCitiesGroup artist collective, and has worked with several art collectives, alternative venues, art centers, and as a curator throughout his career. Specializing in painting, drawing, and printmaking, his creative work spans a range of materials and techniques and has been exhibited nationally and internationally in over eighty exhibitions in twenty states; in US cities including Greenville, Columbia, New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Saint Louis, Austin, and Chicago, and internationally in Copenhagen, Prague, and Perth. His writings on contemporary art and education have been published by Temporary Art Review and the Paris College of Art Press, and he has served as a board member for FATE (Foundations in Art: Theory and Education) and as Editor of FATE In Review, an academic journal focused on arts education and visual culture. He was faculty at the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, SC; the University of South Carolina Upstate, and currently serves as Associate Professor of Art and Chair of The Department of Art + Design at the South Carolina School of the Arts. |
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