Prizes Increase For Autumn Arts Show At VGCC

They’ve raised the ante for artists exhibiting their works in the Autumn Arts 2000 Juried Art Show.

More than $1,500 in prizes and purchase awards are available to exhibitors at the annual show, to be held Oct. 9-31 in the Civic Center on the main campus of Vance-Granville Community College in Vance County. Prizes include the Grumbacher Gold Medallion Award, the highest honor given nationally to art exhibits.

This will be the 25th juried art show sponsored by the Kerr Lake Art Society, in cooperation with Vance-Granville Community College. Prizes are provided in part by Grass Roots funding from the N.C. Arts Council through the Vance County Arts Council.

Autumn Arts 2000 is open to all artists, amateur and professional, working in any two-dimensional media. Carolyn Tucker Lumbard of St. Petersburg, Fla., will judge the show. She is an attorney who has also studied art at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Universite Jean Moulin in Lyon, France. She has twice served as coordinator of Iowa’s Wildlife in Art Exhibition and Sale in Des Moines, where she was a docent for several years at the Des Moines Art Center.

First prize in the show this year will be $500, and second will receive $250 and third $100. Koh-l-Noor Inc. will proved the Grumbacher Gold Medallion and a $200 merchandise certificate to the creator of the best art work in the show using at least 50 percent of Grumbacher products. The winner must be at least 18.

In addition, approximately $500 in purchase awards is guaranteed from at least five patrons of the Autumn Arts show. Honorable mention awards will also be given.

Art works must be original, produced within the past 12 months and not previously exhibited in a Kerr Lake Arts Society show. Artists may enter up to three pieces. A non-refundable entry fee of $10 for three pieces for society members and $15 for non-members will be charged.

Works may not exceed 36 inches per side, image size, and all work must be framed. Non-traditional work may be entered without a frame but must not exceed 36 inches per side and must be equipped for hanging.

Artists should deliver their entries to the Vance-Granville Community College Civic Center between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Sept. 29-30. The college is located at Exit 209 off I-85 between Henderson and Oxford.

Lumbard will judge the works Oct. 1-3. All works will be for sale, and patrons will select pieces they wish to buy during the judging. Sales to the public at the value specified on the artist’s entry card will also be encouraged throughout the exhibit.

The Kerr Lake Arts Society and the Vance County Arts Council will host an opening reception in the Civic Center from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 8, for artists who enter works, people in the area with special interest in visual arts and for the news media. Winners will be announced at the reception, and all work entered will be displayed.

Entries will remain on display Oct. 9-31 in the VGCC Civic Center from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Fridays. Artists may pick up their work between 10 a.m. and 12 noon on Nov. 1.

For more information, call Lelia Brigham at (252) 492-5281.