Artists, do you think our patrons have gotten the picture yet?
Our southeastern North Carolina artists have been exhibiting some of the state’s most beautiful creative work
for more than five years.
Our community has grown to anticipate your offerings with excitement! Do you think they know you yet?
The theme for 2012 is “It’s Anonymous”.
You can be whoever you want to be this year, creating whatever shows your talents best!
So, remember, don’t sign your work where it can be seen until your work is sold!
Thank you for your conscientious participation every year since 2007.
It is time to rally all the support we can muster to complete the funding for the renovation of the
Old Lumberton Water Filtration Plant as our new art center on the river in downtown Lumberton!
You have an important contribution to make toward having a permanent center to celebrate the visual arts right here in
our neighborhood.
Your donation will provide concrete evidence of the creative commitment of our outstanding arts community.
Your entry fee of $10 will provide you one canvas to donate 100% toward the construction of the art center.
When you return a painted canvas or 3D work to the Osterneck Auditorium on Saturday, February 25,
your entry fee will be returned to you. Second and third entry fees will be retained.
Locations will be announced for picking up your canvases in early January.
Looking forward to seeing you and celebrating the grand opening of Southeastern Waterworks Regional Art Center
as early as Spring, 2013!
•ELIGIBILITY: Art Right Now! is open to all artists. Professionals as well as students are encouraged to enter. Entries must be limited to original works of art not reproduced, copied or modified by an instructor. For this exhibit only, please, do not sign any work in a visible area until the work is sold.
•CHALLENGE ENTRIES: ART! RIGHT NOW! challenges artists to share fresh new works created between March 1, 2011 and February 25, 2012.
•MEDIA: Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media, including but not limited to sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, collage, ceramics, fiber arts, etc.
•MEDIA: Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media, including but not limited to sculpture, painting,
drawing, printmaking, photography, collage, ceramics, fiber arts, etc.
•FRAMING: All two dimensional work must have appropriate framing and wire for hanging. Canvas edges must be finished or framed with no visible staples or unpainted canvas. Sculpture must sit on a flat surface or be prepared to hang.
•NUMBER OF ENTRIES: Each artist may submit three (3) works created during the year.
•ENTRY FORMS: Entry forms will be provided online at www.waterworksart.org .
•FEES: The processing fee for each entry will be 10.00. Your first entry fee is refundable when you present a qualifying entry for exhibit on February 25 at the Osterneck Auditorium.
•ART SALES: All work will be available for sale during the exhibit, with Southeastern Waterworks Regional Art Center retaining 100% of the sales price. Artists set their own prices. Prices for this exhibit should not exceed $500.
•DELIVERY & DISPLAY OF WORK: Artworks will be received at Osterneck Auditorium, 102 North Chestnut Street, downtown Lumberton, North Carolina, 9 am to 7 pm, Saturday, February 25. All artwork selected for exhibit must be displayed for the full week February 27 – March 4, 2012.
•OPENING: An Opening Night Preview Fundraiser will be held on Sunday, February 27, 2011. Tickets will be $50 per person, including exhibiting artists.
•PUBLIC EXHIBIT: All work will remain on exhibit through Sunday, March 4. This show will be open by appointment free to the public February 28 through March 4, 2011 and 9 am to 4 pm Saturday, March 3, during the Rhumba to the Lumber Festival downtown.
•CLOSING: 2012 ART! RIGHT NOW! exhibit will close Sunday, March 4.
•PICK UP: All unsold works must be picked up at the auditorium Sunday, March 4, 1 – 6 pm.
Awards
The SENTINEL award $500
•One 2 dimensional work and one 3 dimensional work will be selected to receive the two Sentinel Awards.
The DEFENDER award $250
•Two additional awards will be selected from the remaining artworks.
