42nd Annual Montgomery Art Guild

REGIONS BANK

ART EXHIBITION

2008

ARTISTS INTERESTED IN ENTERING THIS PRESTIGIOUS ART EXHIBITION*:

ART WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR THE UPCOMING ART  EXHIBITION BY PHYSICALLY DELIVERING IT TO THE REGIONS BANK TOWER 4TH FLOOR AT 8 COMMERCE STREET MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA 36104 (SEE www.maps.com FOR FREE DRIVING DIRECTIONS) ON THE FOLLOWING DATES...

AUGUST 22nd (Friday) 10am - 2pm

&

AUGUST 23rd (Saturday) 10am - 12 NOON

* BE SURE AND JOIN NOW OR UP-DATE MEMBERSHIP NOW TO INSURE DELIVERY OF PROSPECTUS / CALL FOR ENTRIES WITH ALL THE DETAILS CONCERNING ART SHOW. DO THIS NOW, BECAUSE THE RULES AND FORMS WILL BE SENT OUT JUNE / JULY 2008! IF YOU DO NOT RECIEVE RULES AND FORMS VIA POSTAL MAIL, CHECK BACK TO THIS WEBSITE!

FREE ADMISSION  &

 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

2008 ART OPENING

SUNDAY

SEPTEMBER 7th 2008

at 12 Noon - 3pm

REGIONS BANK TOWER

8 COMMERCE STREET

LOBBY

ART EXHIBITION CONTINUES FROM

Sept. 7th 2008

to

Sept. 19th 2008

ART EXHIBITION OPEN REGULAR BANKING HOURS

 

Sponsored by Regions Bank

Juror: Paul W. Richelson
 Paul Richelson is Assistant Director and Chief Curator of the Mobile Museum of Art where he previously served as the Curator of American Art. Paul has been Chief Curator, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, and Assistant Director/Curator, Trisolini Gallery of Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. He was Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, and Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. His education includes Ph.D., Princeton University; M.F.A., Princeton University; Special Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and B.A., Yale University. Paul has been widely published and has received several research grants. Awards include a Hays-Fulbright Fellowship, Florence, Italy, 1967-68, 1968-69.

 AWARDS: Best of Show $1,000 Cash
 Six Best of Category $200 Cash
Dawn Kuykendall Memorial * $200 Cash
For artists under 30 years of age Honorable Mentions
* Dawn Kuykendall (1941–2003) was an exemplary glass artist and painter who created large murals in Europe, Asia and the United States. A valued MAG member, she was a past winner of the Foy Gilmore Goodwyn Award at the MAG–MMFA Exhibition and a designer of the Montgomery Area Business Committee for the Arts, Business in the Arts Awards. The award is sponsored by Dawn‘s husband, Carl, and daughter, Michaella.

CATEGORIES
Category 1: Opaque painting (oil, acrylic, gouache)
 Category 2: Transparent Painting (watercolor, inks)
 Category 3: Sculpture
Category 4: Photography, Computer Imagery
 Category 5: Works on paper (pastels, pencil, pen & ink, printmaking)
Category 6: Mixed media, Constructions, Fiber Arts 

 The 41st MAG-Regions Bank Annual Exhibition lasted from September 9th - 21st 2007

Contact the Guild

montgomeryartguild@mail.com

The Juror, Mr. Richelson, and Chairpersons Barbara Davis and Michelle Bitler at Regions Bank.

JUROR STATEMENT

It is always a pleasure to have the opportunity to encounter new artists in a community. The broad range of works eligible for submission to the Montgomery Art Guild’s exhibition provides for a diversity of expression which is entirely stimulating to encounter. The contemporary absence of any .xed cannon of subject or style requires some .exibility on the part of the juror so as to be able to measure accomplishment and reward achievement. My goal was inclusion not exclusion. The artists in this exhibition solidly maintain their passion for the power of the physical world, its buildings, fields, trees, grasses, flowers and its inhabitants. Even the most abstract works maintain an echo of that origin. To me what distinguishes this exhibition are those artists who have given a particularly contemporary twist to their pieces, an inner narrative which stimulates questions while maintaining a mysterious poetic reserve of silence. It is a dialogue in time and across time. My congratulations extend not only to the prize winners and those artists selected for the exhibition, but to all those creative individuals who submitted works. The world needs more of you.

— Paul Richelson

2007 winner: J. Sidney Kelly Terrance Sullivan, Oil

As he accepts the "Best in Show" award

of $1,000, J. Sidney Kelly shakes

BEST OF SHOW

• $1,000.00 prize 

J. Sidney Kelly

Terrance Sullivan

Oil

(for artists 30 years of age or under)

• $200.00 (prize)

Iman Seraag

 

Dark Side of the Moon Platter

Ceramics

 

CATEGORY I

Opaque Painting

• $200.00 (prize)

Christopher Thomas

Gardening Tool

Acrylic

 

CATEGORY II

Transparent Painting • $200.00

Shirley Baird

Runes

Watercolor

 

CATEGORY III

Sculpture

• $200.00 (prize)  

Sandra Rice

Full Circle

Clay

 

CATEGORY IV

Photography, Computer Imagery

• $200.00 (prize) 

Jim Morris

Celestial Chair

Photography

 

CATEGORY V

Works on Paper

• $200.00 (prize) 

Andrew Hairstans

Disruption 3

Charcoal

 

CATEGORY VI

Mixed Media, Constructions, Fiber Arts

• $200.00 (prize) 

Chie Hitchner

 

Lakeside

Natural Dyed Silk

 

 

Honorable

Mention

Awards...

CATEGORY 1

Christopher Moses

Katrina

Oil

 

CATEGORY 2

Virginia Wolfe

Through the Window

Watercolor

CATEGORY 3

Donna Branch

Ode to the Ancients No. XXVI

Glass, Cast, Carved with Battuto, Sandblasted, Acid-etched

CATEGORY 4

Phil Scarsbrook

Homeless...the Thousand Yard Stare

Giclee Print

CATEGORY 5

Clare Hairstans

Untitled XVII

Copper Engraving

 

CATEGORY 6

Beryl Chestnutt

Nailed

Sculpture

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Graphic Design for REGIONS ART SHOW :

Peggy Milburn Brown, a past president of the Art Guild, has provided the cover artwork and the design for the Regions Bank Show prospectus, invitations and catalog. She is retired from Auburn University Montgomery where as a member of the full-time faculty she taught typography, graphic design, and computer graphics to a crop of budding graphic designers. Now she travels, makes art and teaches workshops.

Photographers

Michelle Bitler, professional photographer and an exhibition co-chair, and Phil Scarsbrook, professional photographer and new menber of MAG’s “dream team” have worked together this year to provide the photographs of the winning artwork for this year’s catalog. Michelle set up the artwork and Phil took the shots.

SPONSORS

The Montgomery Art Guild would like to extend its gratitude to Regions Bank for this wonderful art show, which begins the art season in Montgomery each year. On this the 41st Annual Exhibition, we are especially grateful to Regions Bank for all the years of its sponsorship and support.

The Dawn Kuykendall Memorial Award is sponsored by Dawn’s husband, Carl, and daughter, Michaella.

MONTGOMERY ART GUILD OFFICERS & CHAIRPERSONS, 2007-2008

President .........................................................Elizabeth Perry

1st Vice President/Show Chairmen/ “The Dream Team”

...........................Barbara Davis, Michelle Bitler, Phil Scarsbrook,

Amber Hall, Andrew Hairstans, Erin Bush

      2nd Vice President ........................................Beryl Chesnutt Smith

Treasurer .........................................................Richard Mills

Executive Secretary .......................................Wiley White

Recording Secretary .....................................George Taylor

Publicity and Marketing ..............................Melissa Tubbs

Historian ..........................................................Kathy Albree

Social Chairmen. ...........................................Carol B. Meredith, Connie Watts

MAG WEBSITE:

www.montgomeryartguild.com

TO PURCHASE ARTWORK contact:

Barbara Davis 334.273.9013 or Elizabeth Perry 334.262.7765.

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