April 8, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
The DeKalb County Schools Art Exhibit will be Saturday, May 18 featuring works of local art students. The annual event, sponsored by the Smithville Study Club, will be held from 1-3 p.m. at the DeKalb County Complex at 712 South Congress Boulevard. The public is invited to attend.
“The Art Exhibit features art from any student from five years of age and older in our county including home schooled students. Two students will be chosen to receive the “People’s Choice” and “Best of Show” awards,” said Art Chair Susan Hinton.
For more information contact Hinton at 615-597-9300 or Smithville Study Club President Dianne Hawkins.
Guidelines for entries:
Entries are accepted for students pre-school 5-year-old classes, grades 1-12
Student must be a resident of DeKalb County. One entry per student
The artwork may be in any medium but must be the original artwork of the student and completed in the calendar school year.
Size-Drawings, collages, or flat pieces-9×12. Must not exceed 12 x 16. Mounted on construction paper. Framed painting, canvasses or stretcher bars 16×20 not to exceed 20×24. Do not submit sculptures, 3-D art. Must be able to stack.
Individual teachers may submit up to 8-10 pieces per classroom and should mount them on construction paper before submitting them. Art instructors do not have a maximum number but art collected from schools where they teach.
Please tape art to construction paper (not glue) so entry form can be moved to the back of larger uniform paper provided by either art teacher or sponsor.
Deadline for entries: Monday, May 2. Art will be picked up at individual schools; home school student art will be picked up at Justin Potter Library.
If you have questions, you may call Art Chair Sudan Hinton at 615-597-9300 (Monday-Thursday). Calls will be returned ASAP. If you reach a recording, please leave a message.
Art may be picked up at 3 p.m. the day of the show. All art remaining will be returned to the school from which it was submitted or to Justin Potter Library. This applies to home school art submitted.
Attach to the back of the artwork with tape and please print student’s grade, homeroom teacher, name of school, art teacher/mentor, description of art work (medium, title, etc), and name of parents.