Georgia visual artists, take note: The biennial Hudgens Prize Visual Arts Competition is returning and will again feature a cash award of $50,000, one of the largest given to an individual artist in the U.S., plus a solo exhibition at Duluth’s Hudgens Center for the Arts.
The 2015 Hudgens Prize competition is open to any Georgia artist, age 18 and up, residing full time in the state. Artwork of any medium will be considered, but all pieces must have been completed within the last two years (works previously shown at the Hudgens are ineligible). For a $30 non-refundable fee, each artist can submit up to five entries.
The jury panel includes Shannon Fitzgerald, executive director of the Rochester Art Center, Minnesota; Buzz Spector, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts professor of art at Washington University, St Louis; and Hamza Walker, associate curator, the University of Chicago’s Renaissance Society.
They will select four finalists based on a review of entry materials. Those artists will have works featured in the Hudgens Prize Finalists Exhibition next April. Jurors then will select the winner based on studio visits and the works in that exhibit. The awards ceremony will be held June 13, 2015.
For more information and the full rules of entry: www.thehudgens.org.
The Hudgens Prize was awarded to environmental artist Pam Longobardi last year. Gyun Hur was the initial winner in 2011.
Notable Hudgens Prize dates
2014
Nov. 1: entry deadline at 11:59 p.m.
November-December: jury panel makes selections
2015
Jan. 1: finalists notified
April 7-June 27: Hudgens Prize finalists exhibition
June 11-12: jury panel studio visits and programming
June 13: Hudgens Prize award ceremony
June 27: finalists exhibition closes
2016
April-June: Hudgens Prize winner solo exhibition
