Budding Artist Show
Arteast 9th Annual Budding Artist Exhibition. The 9th Annual Arteast Budding Artist Exhibition will be held at St Laurent Complex, 525 Côté Street, Ottawa K1K 0Z8 from Sunday, June 12 through Thursday, June 30, 2011, Monday to Friday 7AM to 10 PM; Saturdays & Sundays 7 AM to 6 PM
To see a copy of the Invitation, please click HERE.
To see a copy of the Application Form, please click HERE.
To see a copy of the Exhibition Regulations in English, please click HERE.
To see a copy of the Exhibition Regulations in French, please click HERE.
The main goal of this annual exhibition is to encourage emerging artists who do not have the opportunity to exhibit their works with other groups or in other locations.
While it is difficult to accurately describe a person who is "budding" and at what point one "ceases to be budding," there are certain unmistakable landmarks. Recognition, by other artists, that you are their peer is the definition used buy the province of Ontario.
More substantially, frequently exhibiting and/or renting space in exhibitions, with a history of sales in public events, signifies that an artist is "no longer budding." Being accepted in a professional group for example "Art on Sparks" or "Art Lending", where the work is juried prior to acceptance into the group, indicates the person is "no longer budding."
Teaching others in that medium is also a recognized milestone, an individual cannot be both budding and teaching.
One goal of the exhibition is to provide feedback to artists who's works receive low marks - a score less than 55%.This is done in the spirit of encouragement and to further improvement. More than 50 artists participated and submitted over 90 works for jurying last year.
In essence, the jurors look for originality in style and presentation of subject matter, as well as awareness of compositional elements, while acknowledging that the artist is not professional. The process is fair. Works are presented to the jurying panel one at a time and scoring is done in silence. Once the voting is finished and the marks registered, the judges review the works with lower rankings and as a group discuss the merits of each, as well a suggestions for improvement. The exhibition coordinators will then relay the commentary to the participant by phone. At no time are scores publicized.
Ribbons are presented individually by each juror to the work they feel exhibits the most potential. Since the awarding of ribbons is not related to scoring, it is entirely possibly that an artist will receive a perfect score but not receive a ribbon.
Remember, we are all winners when we have the opportunity to share our work in an exhibition!
The Budding Artist Exhibition Is Back.
It’s back…the Budding Artist show opened June 12 with 23 works including oil, acrylic, watercolour, photography and mixed media. Susan Ashbrook, the exhibition coordinator, used her extensive experience to put together a great show. The venue at the St. Laurent Complex generates very good public exposure. Some works were for sale and there was one sale at the vernissage.
The Budding Artists have the opportunity to show their works and receive feed back from the jury. Helen Berry’s painting Aaron was a pleasing portrait and received a Juror’s Award. Acrylic abstract shapes danced across a white canvas in Lise Butters’ Bayadère, a Juror’s award also. Vigorous dancers filled the canvas in accomplished tonal values in Juror’s award inParteners by Monique Girouard. Ruth Logan’s Winter Chill landscape, Jeffrey Sugarman’s By Flatford Mills, England a poetic landscape and Mira Wasilewska high colour Autumn Road, all received Juror’s Awards. Sarah Moffat’s Let’s Go in a mixed media glittering surface and blackbirds against an almost impressionistic background completed the awards from the jury. It was a very close race for the Viewer’s Choice Award, which was won by Dick Stanley for his mixed media work titled Roman Forum. The Wallack’s Orléans store generously contributed this award.
Other participants included Anny Huber-Knudsen with her invigourating abstracts with richly textured surfaces. Mary Kritz’sCommunication and Reflections were two very poetic photographs. Josée Laroque had two works, a pointalism landscape calledSerenity and a portrait called “A Wise Man”. Lorraine Marois’s acrylic works showed a landscape from Provence and an intimate landscape of Muskoka chairs. Claudine Pagé’s watercolours with floral themes show much skill and promise.
Susan had a lot of enthusiastic volunteers to help
Receiving: Monique Girouard; Lorraine Marois; Jeffrey Sugarman
Hanging: Lorraine Marois; Dick Stanley
Reception: Lise Butters; Lorraine Marois; Mary Kritz; Claudine Pagé; Sarah Moffatt; Monique Girouard; Mary Ann Varley.
Awards presenter: Mary Ann Varley, President of Arteast
Viewer's Choice tabulator: Virginia Dupuis
Viewer's Choice Prize from Wallack's Orleans, store manager Mike Moffatt.
Financial/Receipts: Dorothy Zorn, Treasurer of Arteast
Take down: Anny Huber-Knudsen; Mira Wasilewska
Congratulations to all the participants in the Arteast Budding Artist Show.