Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg is hosting its 42nd Annual Juried Show at West Main Artists Co-Op through Oct. 9th.
The opening reception, which is free to the public, will be held in the Co-Op on Friday, Sept. 18th, from 6:00 am to 9:00 pm. The awards ceremony will take place at 7:00 pm Cocktails and hor d’oeuvres will be available.
Six of the exhibiting artists will receive cash awards totaling $4,000, including one $1,500 Best in Show award, two $500 Excellence in 2-D Awards, two $500 Excellence in 3-D Awards, and one $500 People’s Choice Award. Visitors to the show may vote for the People’s Choice between 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1, and 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18. West Main Artists Co-Op Gallery is open and free to the public 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.
This year’s juror, John Nolan, juried-in 48 North Carolina and South Carolina artists from more than 100 entries. Nolan has a distinguished career both as a professor and as an artist. He received a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art (painting and drawing) from Bowling Green State University and his master’s degree in Studio Art (painting) from Bob Jones University before going to work at the Bob Jones Museum & Gallery in 1995. Nolan gleaned much from the museum’s founder, Dr. Bob Jones Jr., during the last two years of his life. Since his appointment as the Bob Jones Museum & Gallery’s curator in 1997, Nolan has published a collection catalog of 100 masterworks, three loan exhibition catalogs (John the Baptist and the Baroque Vision; Discovering a Pre-Renaissance Master: Tommaso del Mazza; and, currently, A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the BJU Museum & Gallery), organized scholarly symposia, curated exhibits, and oversees collections at two museum facilities.
A recent exhibition project, From Rublev to Fabergé: The Coming of Art and Culture to America, brought together more than 60 Russian icons and works by Fabergé that represent America’s first mass-introduction to Russian art in the 1930s to 1940s. For loan exhibitions, Nolan has obtained collaborative partnerships with some of the leading scholars in their fields including Edgar Peters Bowron, David Bull, Barbara Deimling, Carl Strehlke, Edward Kasinec, and Wendy Salmond.
And, Nolan now teaches full time as an Assistant Professor in the BJU Division of Art and Design and has taught art history, drawing I & II, art appreciation, and human anatomy drawing while also serving as Curator of the Museum & Gallery.