AUGUST 6, 2009 ISSUE
Watauga Arts Council Call for Entries
Deadline Is September 1
Watauga Arts Council announces a call for entries for “MEMORY through, from, was, is, to, and, upon, created . . . APPALACHIA,” a juried exhibition developed to allow regional artists to compete and display work at the Jones House Community Center main gallery during October 2009.
The call for entries is open to all artists 18 years and older who reside in Watauga or adjoining counties. Entries must be original works and created within the past two years. Works may be created in any medium, but must be two-dimensional in orientation, and must not exceed 40 inches in any direction. Pieces must be framed or gallery wrapped with hanging wires and ready to hang. The entry deadline is Tuesday, September 1.
Download an entry form and prospectus from www.watauga-arts.org or send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Watauga Arts Council, PO Box 366 D.T.S., Boone, NC 28607.
Noyes Capehart will jury the exhibit. Capehart began exhibiting at the local, regional and national level in 1958 and has participated in more than a hundred competitive exhibitions and a number of invitational shows. His work has been represented in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C., the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Greenville Museum of Art, and the Mint Museum in Charlotte.
Watauga Arts Council galleries are sponsored in part by Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff and Grassroots Funds of the North Carolina Arts Council. The WAC offices and galleries are located in downtown Boone at the Jones House Community & Cultural Center, owned by the town of Boone.
For more information, call 828-264-1789.
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