Call Description

Juried Art Exhibition & Annual Holiday Party

Saturday, December 14, 2024 | 6 - 8:30p

Jurors: 

Cathy Lawson:

Cathy Lawson is an artist and educator currently teaching as part of the art faculty at Hinds Community College in Raymond, MS. She has a lengthy career in all levels of education and has most recently completed seven years teaching art and ceramics at St. Stanislaus High School. Cathy has exhibited in Charleston, SC, Mississippi and New York and has work in both private and public collections. She received her undergraduate degree in Printmaking and Art History at the College of Charleston and her graduate degree in painting at New York University.
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Steve Martin:

Artist Steve Martin's adventurous spirit and zest for life comes from a vast pool spirited ancestors, including bold and daring frontiersmen who were associated with the likes of Andrew Jackson and Jim Bowie of Alamo fame. Also wading is the gene pool is the talented 19 century architect David Weeks, who is credited with designing a large number of antebellum mansions along the banks of the Mississippi River and its Delta.  Most famous perhaps is the Shadows on the Teche.  Born in the rural Louisiana town of Tioga, Martin was encouraged by his parents to develop his artistic talents. Completely self taught, Martin received formal recognition and art awards throughout his childhood and teenage years, his first at the early age of five. Despite the praise of his peers, Martin set aside his dream of being an artist for seventeen years to purse a career as a financial advisor. In 1993, a drawing of a clown by Martin's oldest son Christian, rekindled his own artistic flame. Steve decided to branch out beyond stocks and bonds to resurrect his artistic vision and attain his goal of becoming an artist.

Showing regularly at respected galleries across the country, Martin's work is now represented in over one thousand corporate, private and museum collections throughout the world. Through the confidence gained from his repeated sell-out shows, Steve kept his one location of Steve Martin Gallery in New Orleans for 21 years before closing the iconic location.

In 2006 Martin put on the new hat of a political activist to create and champion legislation to change the Constitution of Louisiana to provide an exemption from inventory taxation on artists. The new constitutional amendment passed a statewide public vote and will took effect January 2008 granting artist the exemption.

Philosophy:

I would like to always be able to see the world with the innocence and wonder as seen through a child's eyes and from a child’s perspective. By following this path I am able to create serious art that does not seem to be. 

Some artist spend their careers trying to capture what a child can accomplish freely and instinctively. I feel that art should uplift the soul and elevate the spirit and convey wonder to the viewer.

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 Gene Menerey

Gene Meneray is cofounder of The Ella Project, a pro bono legal, business development and cultural advocacy organization. A native New Orleanian and graduate of Tulane University, Meneray worked for more than a decade as director of artist services at the Arts Council of New Orleans. He has also worked for Thomas Mann Design and for Young Aspirations/Young Artists (YAYA). Meneray has served multiple times as a grant reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and as a juror for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Festival Internationale de Louisiane, and numerous other art shows and festivals. From 2011-2017, he taught arts business in the graduate school at the University of New Orleans Arts Administration program. He has been a panelist and moderator for events including the World Cultural Economic Forum, American Bar Association Conference on Pro Bono, the Music Cities Summit in Toronto and the Sociable City Summit. Meneray is the director of the Louisiana Crafts Guild and serves on the Louisiana State Arts Council. (Board term: 2020-2025)

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Awards:

$1000 Best in Show

$500 Purchase Award 

$500 2nd Place

$250 3rd Place

$100 Honorable Mention(by class)

Submissions: The show will be hung 12/13 and Ready for Award presentation & Holiday Party Sat. Dec. 14th 6-8:30p

Mixed Media: Any medium with an "applied" application

Sculpture: Glass, Ceramic, Stone, Found Objects, Paper Mache, Metals, Fiber, Wood - any 3D media

Painting: Watercolor, Oils, Acrylic, Encaustic, Mixed Media

Drawing: Pencil, Crayon, Charcoal, Pastel, Colored Pencil, Graphite, *any dry source medium

*this show does not support photography and printmaking(stay tuned for a separate call and show in 2025)

80/20 Percentage

-2D: No larger than 40" x 40"

-3D Sculpture Criteria: No taller than 4', No deeper than 2'

-artists will be responsible for shipping work to and from(we will hold materials)- pending sale of work

Submission Fee: $25 for first work- $10  each, 2 subsequent - max submission, 3 pieces per artist. 

Please let us know if your work is not to be considered for the purchase award. ($500 award cap)

(high-res jpg or pdf files emailed to hancockarts@gmail.org)

Application Requirements

Deliver art in reusable packing, with return shipping, please.(If art is not sold or marked NOT FOR SALE  or by artist)

Eligibility Criteria

Submissions:

Mixed Media: Any medium with an "applied" application

Sculpture: Glass,Ceramic, Stone, Found Objects, Paper Mache, Metals, Fiber, Wood - any 3D media (No taller than 4' No deeper than 2')

Painting: Watercolor, Oils, Acrylic, Encaustic, Mixed Media

Drawing: Pencil, Crayon, Charcoal, Pastel, Colored Pencil, Graphite - any dry source medium

*This show does not support photography and printmaking

**80/20 Percentage split on sales

*Sculpture Criteria: No taller than 4' No deeper than 2'

**artists will be responsible for shipping or delivery of work (we will hold shipping materials during the duration of the show)