Georgia high school artists, start your brushes! The Atlanta High School Art Exhibition (AHSAE) has opened the call for submissions for this year’s competition, which will be exhibited at the 79th Annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival this spring. Each year, the AHSAE offers young artists an opportunity to compete, exhibit their work and earn prizes such as scholarships and art supplies. This “must see” festival event is a juried competition drawing upwards of 700 entries each year from which the best hundred works comprise the festival exhibition.
Established in the early 1970s, the AHSAE recognizes and encourages the fine quality of art created by the area’s high school students. Welcoming entries from high school art students from 12 regional Atlanta counties, the competition offers awards worth more than $40,000.
This year’s judges are Anastasia Fink, MA. Ed., a 3-D and mixed media artist who was a high school art educator for 17 years and served as Department Chair at Druid Hills High School; artist Paul Light Jr. who formerly owned Further Polycontemporary Art Gallery and teaches Community Education at SCAD as well as artist Nicole Jacobs, an instructor in the Photographic Imaging Department at The Art Institute of Atlanta. The esteemed jury members make their selections via blind process judging. The works selected for the exhibition will be on view throughout the Atlanta Dogwood Festival in Piedmont Park April 10 – 12, 2015. Additionally, the award-winning pieces and an additional 25 works will be on display for one month in the Art Institute of Atlanta Janet S. Day Gallery.
The high school art exhibit is one more vital way the non-profit Atlanta Dogwood Festival funds are used to benefit the community.
