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January 2007

Scholastic Art Awards - 2007 Results

Many thanks to this year's jurors:
-Carl Gombert, Associate Professor of Art, Maryville College
-Paul Lee, Professor and Director, The University of Tennessee School of Art
-Polly Ann Martin, Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts Department, Maryville College
-Julie Rabun, Assistant Professor of Art, Coordinator of Studies in Graphic Design within the Art Major, Carson-Newman College
-Adrienne R. Schwarte, Assistant Professor of Art/Graphic Design, Maryville College
-David Underwood, Art Department Chairman, Carson-Newman College

The Jim Gray Awards will be determined this Friday and announced at the awards ceremony on Sunday. Two jurors will select 20 recipients to receive awards of $100 each. These awards are selected by two jurors not previously involved in the main adjudication, and they will NOT know what awards the pieces have already received (HM, Silver, Gold, or AV).

Many thanks to this year's volunteers, present during the entire adjudication process:
Susan Becker - Glenn Cada - Phyllis Cada - Suzanne Cada - Caroline Hansen - Sandy Hirshman - Cheryl Jenkins - Mike Jenkins - Zophia Kneiss - Karen Plum - Jill Stone - Ben Woodson - Liza Zenni

27 schools submitted entries from the following seven counties: Anderson, Blount, Claiborne, Jefferson, Knox, Sevier, and Union.

We had 786 individual entries (public, private, parochial, and home schools) and 27 portfolios.

The judges gave the following awards:
26 Gold Keys
34 Silver Keys
77 Honorable Mentions
5 American Visions Award Nominees
8 Art & Photography Portfolio award recipients

Click here to open an excel file of the awards.

We place ONLY the award-winning artwork in our Scholastic Art Awards exhibit (January 28 – February 16). We will probably display one representative piece from any award-winning portfolio.

Information about the adjudication process:
Three jurors were assigned to each category. They were seated at a table, and a volunteer would bring each piece of artwork to the jurors, one piece at a time. The volunteer holding up the work walked slowly past the jurors, and each juror raised a hand to indicate an IN or OUT vote. The jurors did not discuss their vote. Any piece of work that received three IN votes went on for further adjudication. We did not assign the jurors an arbitrary number of awards to give out (for example, 75 Gold Keys) because we wanted each piece to be judged on its own merit. After the initial round, all six jurors went through the remaining artwork (133 pieces) and placed stickers on the work they felt received a Gold Key. Any work receiving two or more stickers (from among six jurors) received a Gold Key, any work receiving one sticker received a Silver Key, and all remaining pieces received an Honorable Mention. The works that received five or more stickers became American Visions nominees (in addition to Gold Key recipients).

The Awards Ceremony & Opening Reception is this Sunday, January 28, 1:30pm-3:30pm.

[updated 01/23/07]

Photos from First Friday, January 5

One of the artists talks with the juror, Stephen Wicks.

Congratulations to the winners of the National Juried Exhibition.
From L - R: Kathryn Dettwiller (Honorable Mention), Joyce Gralak (1st Place), Genie Even (seated - Honorable Mention), Rick Whitehead (2nd place), Judi Gaston (3rd place).

[updated 01/08/07]

Arts & Culture Alliance National Juried Exhibition of 2006

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present its National Juried Exhibition of 2006, a new exhibition featuring selected artwork from more than 40 artists in Tennessee and surrounding states. The Arts & Culture Alliance National Juried Exhibition was developed to provide a forum for artists on a national scale to compete and display their work. The selected art features both traditional and non-traditional work and will be exhibited at the Arts & Culture Alliance’s Emporium Gallery from December 8, 2006 - January 8, 2007.

"Disrupted Space" by Rick Whitehead

**Exhibit hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm; Saturday, 11am-3pm.

The selected entries are original works completed within the last two years, including acrylic, bead weaving, charcoal, clay, digital imaging, fabric, gouache, jewelry, lithograph, metal, mixed media, oil, pastel, photography, sculpture, stone, watercolor, wood, and more.

Juror: Stephen Wicks, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia, and former curator at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Prizes include $1,400 in cash awards as well as future exhibition opportunities.

The Arts & Culture Alliance National Juried Exhibition is sponsored by the Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville and receives financial assistance from the Tennessee Arts Commission, a state agency, and the City of Knoxville.

The awards ceremony and reception on Friday, January 5, from 5-9pm, is free and open to the public. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres are served. The Arts & Culture Alliance’s National Juried Exhibition of 2006 is on exhibit at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, downtown Knoxville. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance, (865) 523-7543.

[updated 01/02/07]

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