From staff reports
Local Beaufort artists have paint brushes in hand, getting ready for Beaufort Art Association’s annual Spring Art Exhibit.
For the past sixty years, this event is highly anticipated by local artists and art lovers alike. Painters, photographers, sculptors and woodworkers each work throughout the year to create masterpieces to unveil to the world and to be judged. It’s their Best of the Best.
So mark your calendar – BAA’s Spring Show will take place on Wednesday, March 12 through Friday March 15 at Tabby Place on Port Republic Street in Downtown Beaufort. Admission is free.
Art will include 2-D with oil, watercolor, acrylic, mixed media, collage, encaustic paintings and photography, as well as 3-D pottery, sculpture, woodturning and stained glass. Jewelry will also be featured. The judge this year is E. Joanna Angell, a fourth-generation multidisciplinary artist currently Assistant Professor of Art in the Department of Studio Art at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. More than 100 pieces of local art are expected to be in the show. More than 15 awards will be given, including “Best in Show,” as well as memorial awards and the coveted “People’s Choice” award, voted on by the Beaufort public attendees. All art will be available for sale.
The talents of local high school artists are also brought to the forefront during this annual exhibit and each year one deserving student is awarded the “Geneva Litchfield Memorial Student Award” of $200 for the Best Student Art. Second- and third-place winners are also awarded monetary prizes.
Artists registration is open to all artists: Beaufort Art Association members and non-members through March 4. For more information, please visit www.beaufortartassociation.com.
Spend a day looking at the some of the finest local art in Beaufort – from 11 a.m.,to 7 p.m.,from March 12 through March 17.
Want To Go?
What: Beaufort Art Association’s 6oth annual Spring Art Exhibit
When: 11 a.m. through 7 p.m.,Wednesday, March 12 through Friday, March 15
Where: Tabby Place, Port Republic Street, downtown Beaufort
Tickets: Admission is free. All art will be available for sale.
