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March Issue 2007
Artists' Guild of Spartanburg in Spartanburg, SC, Offers Youth Art Show
The Artists' Guild of Spartanburg will present Focus on Youth Juried Art Exhibition, at the Guild's gallery at the Spartanburg Arts Center in Spartanburg, SC, on view from Mar. 5 - 30, 2007.
The exhibit, which was originally established as an outreach program to attract young artists to a professional art organization where they can establish a lifelong rapport with other artists, is open to students in grades nine through 12. Artwork includes two-dimensional and three-dimensional pieces. Prizes awarded are Best in Show, $200; First Place, $100; Second Place, $75; Third Place, $50; and three Honorable Mention awards of $25 each.
"In the past the exhibit was open only to 10th grade students," David Benson, Artists' Guild member and director of the exhibit, explained. "Extending it to all the high school grade levels makes it more user friendly for the art teachers, art departments and the students."
Linda Hudgins, an art instructor for many years at The Spartanburg Day School and past-president of The South Carolina State Guild of Artists, is the juror for the show. "She will certainly bring a wealth of knowledge to the table as she adjudicates this youth exhibition," Benson said.
Special awards, donated by the art teachers at Dorman and Spartanburg high schools, will be presented in honor of Susan West and Tom Willis, who taught high school art. "Tom and Susan were both very happy and active in their art teaching careers when their lives were taken prematurely due to cancer," said Benson, who taught with West at Dorman.
"Before West came to teach at Dorman," Benson said, "she visited Willis, her high school art teacher when she was a student at Spartanburg High School. She wanted to pick up pointers for teaching drawing to high school students."
"We still use some of those practices today in our classes at Dorman High School," Benson said, pointing to the legacy that these two art teachers have left behind. "Being extremely skilled with using your simple tools in art was a must in all art classes for these two instructors."
For more info check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call 864/583-2776 or visit (www.sparklenet.com/artistsguild/index.htm).
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