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submission specifics, guidelines,
and required paperwork!

Submission Dates:
Friday, Jan. 2nd: 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Saturday, Jan. 3rd: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Opening Night:
Friday, Jan. 16th: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Awards: 6:30 PM

Juror:
Thomas
Thielemann

Entry Fee:
$10 per piece
(non-refundable)

Categories

  • Everyday Life: Lifestyle images, workplaces, daily routines, sights, etc. that give insight to the human experience

  • Nature & Environments: Landscapes, wildlife, natural textures, forces of nature, travel, etc. 

  • Artistic Portraiture: Images focusing on animate subjects (person/people, pets, etc.) capturing personality and emotion through artistic use of composition, color, and style.

  • Conceptual and Alternative Processes: Abstract, alternative, and manipulated photography.​​

    • Conceptual photography often uses color, light, shadow, texture, shape and form to convey emotion, sensation, or a statement. This includes digital manipulation (photoshop, etc.) that transforms and combines elements from different sources to create a new composition. ​

    • ​Process photography includes straight photography (darkroom processes), alternative photography (specific film types and chemical processes). ​

    • ​Manipulated photography includes hand and/or chemically altered or embellished processes.​

Awards:

  • Best in Show: Ralph H. Marler, Jr. Award- $500 and Ribbon

  • People's Choice: $100 and Ribbon (decided by public and awarded a week from the last day of the exhibition

  • 1st Place in each category: $150 and Ribbon

  • 2nd Place in each category: $100 and Ribbon

  • 3rd Place in each category: $75 and Ribbon

OUR MISSION

The mission of the Wilkes Art Gallery is to make diversity, creativity, and critical thinking of the visual arts more accessible to the greater Wilkes County community by providing opportunities to experience visual arts in a dynamic, meaningful and personal way enriching the lives of the participants through experiences that are both educational and therapeutic.

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913 C Street / Ward Nichols Way

North Wilkesboro, NC 28659

P. 336-667-2841

ART GALLERY &

GIFT SHOP HOURS

Tuesday - Friday: 10am - 5pm

Saturday: 10am - 2pm

Sunday- Monday: Closed

ADMISSION

Admission is always free for Gallery Exhibitions, Openings, and Specified Programs

 

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