蜜桔直播

Call for Art: 蜜桔直播 Seeks Works for Regional Exhibit

This watercolor, 鈥淯ntitled鈥� was completed by Laree McMurray in 2021. 蜜桔直播 will host its first community exhibit and will be accepting art for the juried show through noon on Saturday, Nov. 9, at the Catron Art Gallery inside the R. Jack Fishman Library.

Call for Art: Works Sought for Regional Exhibit

          The 蜜桔直播 Art Department invites artists 18 and older who live or work in the college鈥檚 service area to submit works for consideration for a Regional Community Art Exhibition. The college鈥檚 service area includes Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, Sevier and Union counties.
          The exhibition is a juried, mixed-media art exhibition housed in the Catron Art Gallery, which is located inside the R. Jack Fishman Library on the Morristown Campus. The exhibit will celebrate and recognize artists from this region. 
          Original works of art in drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, ceramics, fiber or mixed media will be considered. Works must be no larger than 24鈥� x 36鈥� x 24鈥�. An artist may submit two entries for consideration.
          The juror for this exhibit is Heather Wetzell, a practicing artist currently serving as the galleries and collections manager at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg. She manages the exhibition schedule for four rotating galleries as well as a permanent collection over 1,000 works in a variety of media. Wetzell holds a master鈥檚 of arts and humanities from Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania, and a master鈥檚 of fine arts in visual studies from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. She has completed the University of Iowa鈥檚 Center for the Book Graduate Certificate in book arts technologies. Her work has been widely exhibited, and can be found at the Anzenberger Gallery in Vienna, Austria and the Momentum Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina. A juror鈥檚 lecture and reception will be held at 2:30 p.m. on March 27 in the Catron Art Gallery.
          Submissions will be accepted on Saturday, Nov. 9, between 9 a.m.-noon in the Catron Art Gallery. All work must be ready to hang. Any unusual hardware magnets or specific hanging devices must be provided by the artist with installation instruction. Framed work must be wired on the back. 
          Jurying will take place on Saturday, Nov. 9. Artists with unaccepted work must pick up work by 4 p.m. on that date.
          Works chosen for the exhibit will remain on display in the Catron Art Gallery until the closing reception on March 27.
          For more information contact Jessie Van der Laan, associate professor of art and assistant dean of humanities, at jessie.vanderlaan@ws.edu or 423-318-2748.