Call for College Faculty to Submit for Educators as Artists

Exhibition Will Be June 27-Oct 12, 2019 at the Albany Museum of Art

[For Release March 6, 2019 – Albany, GA] ─ The Albany Museum of Art is inviting college faculty to participate in Educators as Artists: Juried College Faculty Exhibition, which will open June 27 and continue through Oct 12, 2019 in the AMA’s East Gallery. 

The all-media exhibition will be juried by Hannah Israel, professor of art and the gallery director at Columbus State University in Columbus, Ga.

Faculty members at Albany State University, Albany Technical College, Georgia Southwestern State University, Valdosta State University, Florida State University, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Andrew College and Thomas College are invited to enter. All media will be accepted and accepted submissions may be viewed online once the exhibition opens.

College faculty members may submit up to two digital images of works for consideration. Submissions must be received at entries@albanymuseum.com by 5 pm on May 24, 2019.

The juror will be Israel, who received her Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Her work encompasses various interests, including sculpture, installation, video and mark-making.

She has exhibited her work at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta; the Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw, Ga.; The Vargas Museum of Art in the Philippines; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Honolulu; I-Space in Chicago, and the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign, Ill. Israel has received the Daedalus Art Grant (New York City), the Creative and Performance Art Fellowship at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, Ill., and the Artist Fellowship at Cornell University, N.Y., and the Banff Center scholarship, Canada. She has also curated numerous solo and group exhibitions.

This year, Israel’s work will be featured in a group exhibition, Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia: Cut & Paste, Works of Paper, which will travel to six venues including the Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, the Lyndon Art Center in Athens, and the Telfair Museum in Savannah. She recently completed a five-week residency program at the Banff Creativity and Innovation Center for the Arts in Canada. Last November, she was awarded the 2019 Blue Heron Nature Preserve Artist in Residence in Atlanta.

Israel has collaborated with renowned musician Paul Vallaincourt for the Dias de los Muertos composed by Robert Xavier Rodriguez, for which she directed the video The Shadow to accompany the concert for the Schwob School of Music Percussion Ensemble that was featured at Legacy Hall in Columbus, Ga., and Spivey Hall in Atlanta. She also has collaborated with photographer Sarah Hobbs on A Handful of Dust, a project for Whitespec in Atlanta. This September, she will have a solo exhibition, Imagined Language, at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Here are the guidelines for submissions:

-  A digital image of the artwork should be submitted to entries@albanymuseum.com by 5 pm on Friday, May 24;

-  The artist’s name, address, email, name of work(s) submitted, and contact phone number must be included in the email;

-  Each image must be in JPG format with the title of the work in the JPG name;

-  Each entry must be for an original work of the artist;

-  An artist may submit two entries;

-  There is no entry fee;

-  Each work exhibited is at the discretion of the AMA;

-  Entries submitted without complete information may be disqualified

-  Artists will be notified via email of acceptance by Friday, June 7;

-  Work selected for the show must be delivered to the AMA by Tuesday, June 18.

The Albany Museum of Art, located in Albany, Georgia, adjacent to Albany State University West Campus just off Gillionville Road, has an impressive collection that includes 19th and 20th century American and European art, as well as a substantial collection of sub-Saharan African art including masks, sculpture, pottery, textiles, and musical instruments. The Albany Museum of Art is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The Albany Museum of Art is open 10 am through 5 pm Tuesday through Friday and noon until 5 pm on Saturday. Admission is free.

For more information about the AMA please visit our website, www.albanymuseum.com or call 229.439.8400.

CURRENT AMA EXHIBITIONS

- Memory and Meaning, works by Masud Olufani, is in the Haley Gallery through June 15, 2019;

- Stack: Lego Works by Mike Landers is in the East Gallery through March 30, 2019;

- Ghost Yonder Moonscape, works by Zipporah Thompson opens March 7 in the West Gallery and continues through June 15, 2019.

ABOUT THE ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART

The Albany Museum of Art, located in Albany, Georgia, adjacent to Albany State University West Campus just off Gillionville Road is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The Albany Museum of Art is open 10 am through 5 pm Tuesdays through Fridays and noon until 5 pm on Saturdays. Admission is free.

For more information about the AMA please visit our website, www.albanymuseum.com or call 229.439.8400.