JUROR: Shawn Kennedy 41st Lubbock Arts Festival Juried Gallery is a practicing artist and educator from Amarillo, This competition is part of the annual Lubbock Arts Festival, April 13-14, 2019, and is open to all artists Texas. He graduated from Amarillo High School and earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Drawing working in any fine art media. The Lubbock Arts Festival is a project of the Lubbock Arts Alliance, Inc. and Painting from the University of North Texas. At UNT, he received the Outstanding Undergraduate ELIGIBILITY ■ June 2019 in Studio Art and exhibited in galleries throughout Dallas and Fort Worth. In 2004, he relocated back ■ Open to all artists in all media. ■ Entries must be Lubbock Arts Alliance returns shipped works. to Amarillo and began his teaching career, while original in design and execution. ■ Entries must have ■ CONDITIONS OF ENTRY continuing to build his gallery resume. He works as been completed within the last two years. Works a freelance designer and advocate for community ■ completed in a workshop or under supervision are All accepted works must be delivered ready to hang growth through art, working with students across ineligible. securely with wire (no sawtooth hangers) or display. the state of Texas. Kennedy currently exhibits work ■ Framed size limit: 44 w" x 72 h" throughout Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, ENTRY FEES ■ All accepted works will remain on display for the presenting shows at such notable galleries as 500X, ■ $25 per entry. ■ Each artist may have no more duration of the 41st Annual Lubbock Arts Festival. The Powerstation, GalleryArtSpace, Artspace 111, than three works represented in the show, but the ■ Juried Gallery will be in the 1/3 Banquet Room of The Lincoln Center, Eula Mae Edwards Museum, number of entries is not limited. ■ Entry fees are Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. Contemporary Art Museum of Plainview and non-refundable. the Charles Adams Gallery in addition to being AWARDS published in Studio Visit Volume 28. Kennedy’s body of artwork confronts SUBMISSIONS Up to $1000 in cash prizes awarded at the juror’s subcultures, commercialism, working class ■ Entries will only be accepted online through discretion. ideologies and the transmutation of ideas. His onlinejuriedshows.com work confronts the popularity and dissemination SALES of iconography as it applies to mass culture and SCHEDULE All artwork must be for sale at the price determined what defines contemporary society. His most recent ■ Monday, March 11, 2019 at submission and include sales tax. Lubbock Arts work reacts to the habits of consumerism and how All submissions must be received by the Alliance will retain a 33 1/3% commission on all it defines our identity and commodifies the purpose Lubbock Arts Alliance. Gallery sales. of the artist and negates the intended purpose of ■ Wednesday, March 27, 2019 creativity. Kennedy strives to explore the void in Selection notifications mailed. REPRODUCTION meaning and create art that says nothing over and ■ Monday April 8, 2019 The Lubbock Arts Alliance retains the right to over again. Kennedy is the founder and director of the Deadline for shipped works to arrive at: reproduce work for publicity purposes. Submission of local, state and national-award winning student an entry to this exhibition shall indicate an agreement Lubbock Arts Alliance art collective Studio 502 and is employed by AISD P.O. Box 5092., Lubbock Texas 79408 on the part of the artist to these conditions. ■ as the drawing and painting instructor at Caprock Wednesday, April 10, 2019 High School. In addition, he works in developing SHIPPING Hand delivered works to be delivered to: and instructing online art history courses for the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, 1501 Mac Davis Lane, ■ Works should be shipped ready for installation, Texas Virtual School Network. In 2005 he was Lubbock, TX 79401 between 10:00 am – 2:00 pm. packed in sturdy reusable containers. ■ Do not send chosen Bowie Teacher of the Year and in 2018 was ■ Friday, April 12, 2019 work in Styrofoam chips. ■ Return shipping labels named Secondary Teacher of the Year for Amarillo Premiere Night 6:00 - 9:00 pm required. ■ Artist pays all shipping charges. Independent School District; currently Kennedy is ■ Sunday, April 14, 2019 the President of the Texas Panhandle Art Education Unsold, hand-delivered art to be picked up at the Civic Association. He is married to his wife Stephanie Center, 1501 Mac Davis Lane, Lubbock, TX 79401 with whom he has three teenage daughters – Jayci, Brooklyn and Madeline. 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