2012 Youth Art Showcase

The Junior Friends of Hawkes Library and the West Point Woman's Club present the

2012 Young Artists Showcase

sponsored by AAEA's “Hooked on Art” in celebration of Youth Art Month

FINAL ENTRY DATE: March 19th (postmarked) or March 20th, 2012 (delivered)

EXHIBIT DATES: March 22nd – 25th, 2012 at Hawkes Library

CLOSING RECEPTION DATE: March 25th from 2-4pm EST

PICK-UP TIME FOR ARTWORK: March 25th - following the closing reception (4pm)

Artwork will be categorized by grades for the purposes of judging:

K-3, 4-8, and 9-12.

Entries must be in one of the following mediums:

Category A: Painting (oil, acrylics, watercolor, etc.)

Category B: Drawing (pastels, colored pencil, pencil, charcoal, ink, markers)

Category C: Photography (basic digital enhancements are allowed)

**The judges reserve the right to move artwork to a more appropriate category.

Guidelines for submission:

• Only one submission per student, per category.

• Student must be enrolled at a public, private, charter, or home-based school in either

Chambers county (AL) or Troup county (GA).

• All artwork must be appropriate for all ages in a public display.

• Artwork must be two-dimensional, no 3-dimensional media.

• Artwork is to be no larger than 8.5 by 11 inches and no more than one half inch thick.

• The artwork must be original in concept, design, and execution and may not violate any U.S. copyright laws. Any entry that has been copied from an existing photo

(not the student’s own), painting, graphic, advertisement, or any other work produced

by another person is a violation of the competition rules and will not be accepted.

• All entries must be current and created within the past year.

• Work entered must be in the original medium (not a scanned reproduction).

• Charcoal and pastel entries must be sprayed. Oils must be dry.

• Each entry must have a “Student Entry Form” completely filled out and securely attached.

• Each entry must have the following information written in pencil on the back: name, grade and school. NO INFORMATION ON THE FRONT and DO NOT SIGN THE FRONT.

Judging:

Submitted artwork is judged on creativity, skill, neatness, and overall impact. A panel of

professional artists will choose the winners. There will be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place awards for each category within each age division and a Judges' Choice for each age category.

The judges decisions are final. Awards will be presented at the closing reception.

All entries will receive a certificate of participation.

Please email Amy McDow with any questions (amy@amymcdow.com)

or visit www.hawkeslibrary.com for more information.

Book Signing with Patricia Sprinkle

Author Patricia Sprinkle will speak at the historic Hawkes Children’s Library in West Point from 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, April 17.
Sprinkle, a Georgia author, was well known for Georgia mysteries before she switched three years ago to writing general novels. Publisher’s Weekly said of her work, “Sprinkle has a gift for developing a full, rich world.”
Sprinkle has lived most of her adult life in the Atlanta metro area, but spent her early years in a small community in North Carolina and retains a deep love for small Southern towns. Ten of her mysteries are set in fictitious Hope County in Middle Georgia, and her two recent novels are also based in small Georgia towns. Hold Up the Sky takes place in a dairy community in West Georgia while Friday’s Daughter is set in a North Georgia college community.
She says of these books, “They both deal with family relationships, particularly the complex relationships that can exist between sisters. Although I am the older of two girls, these books are each told by a younger sister. My own sister claims I am trying to atone for all the awful things I did to her growing up, and she assures me that two novels will not do it.”
Sprinkle decided to become a writer in eighth grade, studied creative writing at Vassar College, and after graduation lived in the Scottish Highlands for one winter to see if she had the discipline to write. As an adult she has lived and written in Chicago, Miami, Mobile, and St. Petersburg, FL, but she and her husband keep returning to Atlanta, which they consider home. In addition to twenty mysteries and her two recent novels, Sprinkle has written two other novels, The Remember Box and Carley’s Song, based on her childhood in NC, and two popular non-fiction books, Women Who Do Too Much and Children Who Do Too Little. Her books will be on sale at the Hawkes Children’s Library event.