Calling all artists: put down your paint brushes and clay-specked aprons and pick up an application form.
As the city prepares to host this year’s Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards, it is also putting out the call for submissions to an art exhibition that will run in conjunction with a new four-day festival called Articulture. Organizers are excited to show off the city’s best and brightest talents.
“We’re hoping to have 100 to 200 pieces,” explained Samantha Williams, the city’s event and project liaison. “The nice thing about it is that the exhibition can include basically anything.”
When Articulture takes place from April 7 to 10, the exhibition will be on display at St. Albert Place to show off the best of St. Albert’s professional and emerging artists.
It will be adjudicated by a panel of various visual artists and educators from the city, including representatives of the St. Albert Place Visual Arts Council, the Visual Arts Studio Association and the Art Gallery of St. Albert.
Williams added the competition and exhibit is a great demonstration of how the various sectors of the city’s arts community can work together for the benefit of all.
“It’s a community exhibit. It’s all of these groups working together. It’s the first time that all of these visual arts groups have worked together to do this. I think that’s a really neat thing to have … to show the collaboration.”
The city’s cultural services department is accepting submissions from all visual artists who live, work or play in St. Albert; there is a maximum of five entries per person. Each entry must be an original work and must also be gallery ready at the time of submission.
Categories for submissions include painting, printmaking, sculpture, performance and installation art, as well as photography, new media and fine craft.
The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Awards were started by the late Lois Hole as a way of celebrating excellence in and underlining the importance of the arts in Alberta. They will presented on Saturday, April 9.
The deadline for submissions for the exhibition is Monday, Feb. 28 at 4 p.m. To apply or get a detailed checklist of requirements or more information contact Williams at 780-459-1755 (ext. 3075) or send her an email at [email protected].
