Perimeter College Student Exhibit
April 3 – April 27, 2017  Main Fine Arts Gallery, Clarkston campus
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Artwork Delivery Accepted:  March 27  through 10am Friday March 31

Tuesday/Thursday deliver to CF2150 Clarkston campus between 11am – 3pm
or
Monday through Thursday to The Fine Arts Office CF2230  between 9 a.m.– 5 p.m.
or
Friday March 31 to the Fine Arts Gallery from 8 to 10 am
(show installation begins promptly at 10am so no late entries can be accepted)
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MAT CUTTING AND MOUNTING WORKSHOP
March 27 – Thursday – drop by between 3pm and 7pm in CF-2150 (info below)
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reception & awards:   Thursday April 6th, 5-7 p.m.   Fine Arts Gallery, Clarkston, Awards ceremony will begin at 6pm
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Eligibility for entry to this exhibit and for the awards is limited to all GPC/GSU Perimeter students who are Fine Art studio students this academic year (Summer Semester 2016, Fall Semester 2016 or Spring Semester 2017) at any of the campuses.  The work should have been done during the time the student is enrolled at GPC/GSU Perimeter, though it does not necessarily have to have been done for a specific studio class.

Guest Judge: SCAD faculty member Martha Whittington – http://www.marthawhittington.com/

There will be NO purchase awards this year, however, there will be awards from local art supply, photography, and ceramic supply stores.

Download the entry submission form here. Please print-out this entry form and return with work.

Entry forms should be filled-out, signed, and the appropriate labels attached to the artwork before it arrives in the gallery.  An incomplete form or one left un-signed will preclude any insurance coverage for the artwork during the exhibit dates.  Filling out the form completely AND legibly [email address especially] will help insure that work be returned at the close of the exhibition. A permanent (not student GSU Perimeter email) email address is recommended to be used if you are near graduation.
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All (art majors) students are allowed to submit up to two (2) pieces for exhibit, but due to gallery size limitations they are only guaranteed to have one (1) of those pieces installed in the exhibition. The selections of work from students who enter more than one piece will be at the gallery director’s discretion, and will be done when the work is being placed/installed.

* The works to be submitted should have been completed during the time of their enrollment in GPC/GSU Perimeter classes, though the work can have been done outside the studio classes for which they have been enrolled. Work submitted in any previous year GPC Annual Student Show is not eligible for entry.
* The flat works need to be ready-to-hang but not necessarily framed – which means any work on paper needs to be mounted and/or matted to a quarter-inch-thick package, clear acetate or vinyl recommended over drawings. Drawings/paintings in charcoal, chalk, and pastel media should be fixed if not mounted under clear vinyl or acetate.
* Unframed paintings on canvas board will also be hung with the Walker System, and unframed stretched canvases will either be hung on two screw or nail heads protruding from the wall or on Walker System hardware if there is enough in our inventory of that type fittings. (please note the exposed edges of the stretched canvas with visible staples should be addressed in some manner for display purposes).
* All other wall-mounted works should have suitable hardware (i.e. – wire and screw eyes) ready to attach to the wall.
* 3D works will be placed on pedestals or directly on the floor (if appropriate).  A limited number of acrylic vitrines are available for some of the pedestals.
* NOTE: display pedestals are stored off-site, so to insure availability of a suitable pedestal and/or vitrine it is suggested that the need-for-a-pedestal and footprint sizes of work be sent to me ASAP so I can have suitable display materials on hand for the installation of the exhibit. [ddougan@gsu.edu]
* Any work arriving not-ready-to-install shall not be exhibited, and work without entry labels attached will not be exhibited.
* If your work does not fit into the above categories, please contact Don Dougan [ddougan@gsu.edu] to see what display options might be available.
* Work entered but not accepted to the exhibition for space considerations will be stored either in the part-time Fine Arts faculty office or in the archive closet Clarkston.

LATE ENTRIES CAN NOT and WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED — no matter how good the work or individual extenuating circumstances.
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Work submitted/exhibited must stay for the duration of the exhibition.  If work is needed for end-of-semester class portfolios students are advised to submit alternative works. Other public events are scheduled for both the lobby/gallery space and the auditorium and the patrons to those events should quite rightly expect to view the entire exhibition when they visit.

Take-down/pick-up of artwork is NO EARLIER than 9 a.m. Friday, April 28.

Both the exhibited artwork and the entered-but-not-exhibited work will also be available for pick-up after 9 a.m.  All works can be picked-up in the gallery during the morning, but the works shall be moved upstairs for pick-up or storage in CF-2150 classroom by noon. An email will be sent to all entrants to remind them of the details to pick-up their work, but every year there are a handful of students whose emails are either illegible or who provide student email addresses but then graduate so they do not pick up their work. The work will be there in the classroom for the duration of Summer semester until picked-up, but any work not picked-up by beginning of Fall semester shall become the property of the GSU Perimeter Permanent Collection or discarded.  This past year four students never picked-up their work despite several reminder emails, including one award winner.

MAT CUTTING AND MOUNTING WORKSHOP
A mat-cutting and/or mounting workshop on the afternoon/evening of March 27 – Thursday – between 3pm and 7pm in CF-2150.  If any student is interested in preparing presentation of their works for the student show they are welcome to come and take part. I will have the mat-cutter(s) available as well as 24-inch wide heat-shrink plastic for drawings with heat gun, but each student needs to bring their own materials for mounting and matting:

1) finished artwork — one or two pieces — to be mounted or matted (if drawing is charcoal it should have already been fixed with Clear Fixative)

2) backing material (foam-core, double-ply chipboard, corrugated cardboard, or additional double-ply matboard) large enough for the full-dimensions of matted size or the full size of the drawing to be mounted.

NOTE: standard foam core is too thick to be used as a backer if the work is to be matted or mounted with matboard as well — thin 1/8-inch foam core is OK for backing matted works, or the standard ¼-inch thick foam core is fine for mounting work on paper without a mat.

3) neutral-colored matboard (white, off-white, gray, black) large enough for one or two entries