Lamar Dodd School of Art: Second Annual Student Juried Show

The Lamar Dodd School of Art’s Second Annual Juried Student Show opens today in School of Art Galleries 101 and 307. The exhibition will be on view through November 9, and there will be an opening reception this Thursday, October 28, from 5 to 7 p.m.

Brian Holcombe, director and founder of Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta, served as judge for this year’s show. Holcombe received a Master’s of Industrial Design from the Georgia Institute of Technology in August 2010 and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998.

Saltworks, established in 2002, is a commercial contemporary-art gallery with an international scope and a focus on cutting-edge exhibitions. It has been featured in Art News, Art in America, Art Forum and Art Papers, among other publications.

The galleries are open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and closed weekends and university holidays. Visitors can park at the Performing Arts PAC Deck, lot E20. Free parking is available in lots E07 and E11 after 4 p.m.

Call for Artists

The Johns Creek Arts Center (JCAC), the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce and the City of Johns Creek, Ga. will present its fourth annual Arts on the Creek Juried Exhibition on Friday, September 3. A call for artists has been issued for the exhibition.

All artists, ages 18 and older, are eligible for entry in the exhibition. Accepted media include painting, drawing, print making, mixed media collage and photography. The award for best in show is $1,000. Entry forms are accepted until August 6. Call 770.623.8448 for more information.

JCAC, located in North Fulton County, formerly known as the Ocee Arts Center, was established as a non-profit corporation in 1996. Its mission is “to inspire artistic development for youth and adults by embracing community and corporate relationships that stimulate creative growth and opportunity.” JCAC works to provide cultural arts education by hosting classes, camps, workshops and exhibitions.

GMOA Associate Curator of Education, Judge and Jury

On Sunday, April 11, Georgia Museum of Art associate curator of education, Carissa DiCindio, traveled to Valdosta, Ga. to judge the Spring into Art exhibition at the Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts. Nancy Bookhart, an art professor from Paine College who received her M.F.A. at UGA in 2005, and DiCindio took the entire afternoon to decide which 65 works out of 400+ submissions would be chosen for the juried exhibition. In addition to that, the two judges chose the best of show and decided the winners in 6 categories: drawing/painting, printmaking, photography, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics, and jewelry/craft. All entries will be in an exhibition through May 26th, followed by an exhibition of the juried works opening on June 7, where the winners will be announced.

"There were a lot of excellent entries, and we had to make some very difficult choices in our selections," said DiCindio of her experience. "My favorite part about judging is that I feel like I got to know the artists in the region through their works. The staff members of the Turner Center were gracious hosts, and it was a wonderful trip."

Read more about Spring into Art in The Valdosta Daily Times.

Call for Entries

Ron Cioffi, who used to teach our PR coordinator, Jenny Williams, sent along this call for entries for exhibition artists' section of Arts on the Creek, an arts festival held in Johns Creek, Ga., annually. Click on the image above to see it full size. Arts on the Creek also has an artists' market, but the exhibition stuff is juried, with a prize of $200 in each category. Jurors this year are Mark Karelson, director of Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.; Rob Matre, owner of Matre Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.; and Dr. Pam Sachant, coordinator of visual arts at North Georgia College and State University, Dahlonega, Ga. Arts on the Creek will take place September 5 and 6 (Labor Day weekend), with an opening reception the evening of September 4. If you want to submit your work, you have until August 17 at 5 p.m. For more information on submitting, click here.