2011 SAAG National Juried Show
October 15th - November 12th
212 Applicants from 33 states and over 600 works of art submitted. Selected 109 artists from 27 states. Exhibit showcases 146 works of art in the Richard Low Evans Gallery at The Art Center in Blue Ridge, GA.
See the winners of the 2011 SAAG National Juried Show!
You are cordially invited to enter the 2012 National Juried Show sponsored by the Southern Appalachian Artist Guild (The Guild). The show will be judged by William Underwood Eiland, Director of the Georgia Museum of Art. Blue Ridge, GA is located in the beautiful north Georgia mountains. The show will run in the peak visitor months of October and November attracting interest from the surrounding metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Asheville, Chattanooga and Knoxville. Art works selected will be displayed in the Richard Low Evans Gallery of the Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association (The Art Center) in Blue Ridge, Georgia. $5000 in prize money will be awarded.
Judge: William Undersood Eiland
Director of the Georgia Museum of Art
A native of Sprott, Ala., William Underwood Eiland is the director of the Georgia Museum of Art. He took a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Birmingham-Southern College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. A Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Eiland has been the recipient of several fellowships, including the Danforth Teaching Fellowship at the University of Virginia, a Museum Professionals Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Research Fellowship from the University of Georgia Center for Humanities and Arts. He has also edited and contributed to more than 50 publications, including Art Papers, Georgia Journal, US Art, Ceramics Monthly, Southern Antiques and English Literature in Transition and has been general editor of seven catalogues at the Georgia Museum of Art. Notably, Eiland authored The Truth in Things: The Life and Career of Lamar Dodd, published by the University of Georgia Press.
He serves on the boards of the American Association of Museums, the Southeastern Museums Conference andthe Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries; is a trustee of the Association of Art Museum Directors; and chairman of the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Advisory Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts. Eiland earned the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries in 2007.
He was named 2000 Museum Professional of the Year by the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries and 1999 Outstanding Museum Professional by the Southeast College Art Conference. He also served as the vice chairman of the American Association of Museums in 2004-2005.
Click Here for the 2012 Southern Appalachian Artist Guild Juried National Show Prospectus!
Dates for the 2012 Show are October 20-November 9, 2012. Entry deadline is August 1, 2012. (Selected art should be delivered October 6, 2012 and art pickup is November 10, 2012)
$5,000 in prize money will be awarded.
Artists who are residents of the United States are eligible to participate in this juried exhibition of two-dimensional and three-dimensional artworks.
The Southern Appalachian Artist Guild’s National Juried Show takes place in Blue Ridge, Georgia, in the historic Richard Low Evans Courtroom Gallery at The Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association. The show coincides with the peak of autumn foliage in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North Georgia.
Check out the SAAG National Juried Show Facebook Page for pictures of the 2011 art and reception.
Make plans to join us on October 20th for the 2012 National Juried Show Reception and Award Ceremony!