The Arts & Culture Alliance and Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority announce a call for entries for the 31st biannual Arts in the Airport at McGhee Tyson Airport, a juried exhibition developed to allow regional artists to compete and display work in the most visited site in the area. Approximately 40-45 fine art works encompassing all styles and genres from both emerging and established artists will comprise the exhibition in the secured area behind McGhee Tyson Airport’s security gate checkpoint from October 22, 2024 – April 2025. Prizes include $1,000 in cash awards.
Artists may find more information and an online entry form at www.knoxalliance.com/airport-
The deadline for entries is Sunday, September 8, 2024.
The call for entries is open to all artists 18 years and older residing in the 33 counties of East Tennessee. There is no entry fee, however artists must be individual members of the Arts & Culture Alliance by the entry deadline, and membership is open to all.
Each artist may submit up to five entries which must be original works in the following categories: 2-D (painting, drawing, mixed media, printmaking, photography) and 3-D (sculpture of all media). Entries are juried by digital image only.
Juror: Also a practicing artist working in historic photographic processes, hand papermaking, and book arts, Heather F. Wetzel is currently the Galleries & Collections Manager at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Here she manages a robust exhibition schedule for four rotating galleries, including the Arrowmont Gallery in Knoxville, as well as the permanent collection which consists of over 1,000 works in a variety of arts and crafts media. She has held positions as the Director of the Meadows Museum of Art and Instructor of Art at Centenary College of Louisiana; Assistant Professor, Head of BFA and MFA Photography Programs at Memphis College of Art in Memphis; Senior Lecturer in the Art Department, and Book Arts Specialist at Logan Elm Press at The Ohio State University where she was the 2011-2012 Post MFA Fergus Family Fellow in Photography. She earned her Master of Arts & Humanities from Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania, and her Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. Before to coming to The Ohio State University, she completed the University of Iowa Center for the Book Graduate Certificate in Book Arts Technologies in 2011.
For more information, please contact Suzanne Cada at (865) 523-7543 or sc@knoxalliance.com.
