2011 Mountain State Forest Festival Art Exhibit

Accepting Entries

The Randolph County Community Arts Center is accepting submissions to the annual Juried Art Exhibition during the Mountain State Forest Festival to be held October 5 to November 16, 2011. The event will be hosted by the RCCAC and the Seneca Trail Artists Guild and is sponsored by Parrack Insurance.The prospectus is available here.

Exhibit Guidelines:

Hand-delivered entries only may be submitted and works will be accepted between 1- 3 p.m. Saturday, October 1 at the Arts Center, located on the corner of Randolph Avenue and Park Street (former St. Brendan Catholic Church).
The exhibit is open to West Virginia residents 18 years of age or older. Students in grades K-12 are asked to please check “Student Show” on the entry form. All works must have been created in the last two years.
All work must be original fine art, no copies or computer generated art. Hanging work is not to exceed 4x6 feet; sculpture weight limit, 40 lbs. All entries should be family friendly. All paintings, including student work, must be framed, suitably wired for hanging with identification labels attached to back and under glass or Plexiglas, if applicable. Works with saw-toothed hangers will not be accepted. Oil paintings on stretched canvas should be wired and have finished edges. No exceptions.
Entry fees are: $30 for non-members, a non-refundable fee for two entries; and $15 for Seneca Trail Artists Guild and Randolph County Community Arts Center members, a non-refundable fee for two entries. Student Show entries are $2 each.
All works meeting guidelines will be exhibited during the Festival. Works juried in to the extended exhibit will hang through November 16. All forms of painting, drawing, collage, hand-pulled prints and sculpture will be accepted. Works must not have been exhibited in a previous Forest Festival Art Exhibit or RCCAC/Great Hall exhibit.

Juror:

The juror will be Naijun Zhang. Born in China, he received a B.F.A. in Oil Painting from Nanjing Arts Institute, Nanjing, China in 1988 and a M.F.A. in Painting from West Virginia University in 2000. He has had solo shows at OK Harris Works of Art in New York and Michael Berger Gallery in Pittsburgh, Pa. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions both in the United States and China. He currently serves as Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Painting Program at WVU.