Suwanee Arts Center members are invited to participate in our upcoming all inclusive juried MEMBER EXHIBIT 2022, to be held from August 6 - September 10, 2022 at the Suwanee Arts Center in Suwanee Town Center. Gwinnett and surrounding areas have a community of creative artists and SAC members bring their best works forward to share with the community. Get a glimpse of what is being created just around the corner from your neighborhood.

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CRITERIA​

• Accepted media - oil, watercolor, acrylic, charcoal, pastel, colored pencil, mixed media, printmaking, photography, fiber art, three-dimensional art, including ceramics, pottery, woodworking, metal, jewelry, and sculpture.

• All work must be either framed, gallery wrapped canvas 1 1/4" to 1 1/2", or metal/aluminum. Wired to hang (no saw tooth hangers), this includes metal or acrylic photographs. Maximum framed size no larger than 40" W x 40" H and minimum framed size no smaller than 11" x 14". 

• 3D artwork must fit on a gallery pedestal. 

• Artwork must be for sale. SAC retains 30% commission of all works sold during exhibit.                                           

• Sold works may not be removed from the gallery prior to the close of exhibit.

• Entries must not violate copyright laws.

• All accepted artwork must be delivered to Suwanee Arts Center with legible identification label. Label must include: Artist’s name, email address, Title, Medium, and Price for artwork.

• PLEASE SEE NOTE BELOW: FORMAT YOUR FILE

 

AWARDS

Overall Best in Show, Best in 2D, 3D, and Photography will be awarded. Ribbon awarded to Honorable Mention. People's Choice awarded at end of Exhibit. Visit Suwanee Arts Center to vote for your favorite piece of art.

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INSURANCE AND LIABILITY

Each artist is responsible for insuring his or her own artwork. While all care will be taken while art is being exhibited in the Suwanee Arts Center, SAC and its members or anyone working on the exhibition, assumes no responsibility for any damage to the artwork during delivery, installation and de-installation. SAC will not be liable for artwork not claimed after specified pick-up dates and time.

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PUBLICITY

Images of works may be used for SAC marketing , social media, and online gallery.

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ASSISTANCE

Contact Center Director, Aggie Nivilinszky - director@suwaneeartscenter.org or 678-878-2818.

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ENTRY FEE AND APPLICATION

Entry fee:

SAC Members one category - $35

SAC Members two categories - $40 

(entitles artists to submit a total of 3 pieces)

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FORMAT YOUR FILE

VERY IMPORTANT: Name your file(s). Artist name - Title of artwork (with spaces between words)

Entries must be in JPG format and smaller than 3MB.

Failure to follow exactly as stated above may disqualify your work.

You will receive an email from suwaneeartscenter.org confirming your submission has been processed. You will be notified by email if your work has been accepted.

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PLEASE NOTE: We highly recommend that you submit your entry well before the entry deadline. The majority of entries usually come in on the last day. Inevitably problems can and will arise at the last minute, so it's best to plan to submit your entries ahead of that final deadline just to be safe. 

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ABOUT THE JUROR

Dr. David A. Cook 

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David Ainsworth Cook joined the faculty of the School of Liberal Arts of Georgia Gwinnett College in 2008 after a decade as the art professor and gallery director of Sterling College in Kansas. Born and educated in Mississippi, Cook began his teaching career as a missionary in Papua New Guinea. Upon returning to the United States, Cook taught at James Madison University where he received his MFA degree in drawing and painting. Immediately after graduate school, he was invited to join the faculty of Bridgewater College in Virginia where he taught for a decade before venturing into starting new programs at a variety of schools.

Cook has always been an artist, exhibiting publicly for the first time at age 8 in the Mississippi Arts Festival, an annual exhibit in which he showed work almost every year from 1965 until 1980. His first solo exhibit at the A.E. Wood Memorial Library in 1975 attracted public attention and his first newspaper review. His art was represented in The Upstairs Gallery in Jackson, Mississippi, as well as in the Mississippi Museum of Art where he was not only one of the first exhibitors, his work was also the first sale of the newly established museum, selling to Robert Joffrey of The Joffrey Ballet. As an artist, Cook was included in juried exhibits such as “Recent American Works on Paper,” a Smithsonian exhibit curated by Ned Rifkin, “Baltimore Artscape,” “Art of the Southeast 1986” and the Dakota National. Cook’s painting, “The Energy of Longing,” garnered catalog inclusion from Ned Rifkin and received a review in The Washington Post. He's also had the pleasure of judging the Congressional Art Show. 

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