AWG Team

BRUNSWICK ARTS COUNCIL ANNOUNCES FALL ART SHOW at LCAC

New Teen Category for 2022!

Brunswick Arts Council will present its 22nd Annual Fall Art Show and Sale September 26th through October 8th at the Leland Cultural Arts Center located at 1212 Magnolia Village Way, Leland, NC 28451. The show will be on display in the multi-purpose/exhibition space of the arts center.

The annual art show will include works by adults members and non-members of Brunswick Arts Council and other arts groups (including Art League of Leland, Waterway Arts Association, Oak Island Art Guild, Art Association of Southport, Coastal Camera Club) and will include 2 -dimensional works in oils, watercolor, pastel and mixed media as well as 3-dimensional works.

New this year, we are encouraging the submission of 2- dimensional and 3-dimensional works from our local youth artists ages 13-18.

Artists who are interested in participating are asked to visit the Brunswick Arts Council web site brunswickartscouncil.org for details and a prospectus. All entry information and fees must be received by September 23rd mailed to: Mary Beth Livers, Fall Art Show, 3651 Heron Circle, Southport NC 28461 and received by that date OR hand delivered to Brunswick Arts Council on Saturday, September 24, 2022 at Leland Cultural Arts Center.

The show is open to the public with free admission from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 3 pm Friday and Saturday keeping the hours of Leland Cultural Arts Centers. The show is juried and an awards reception will be held on Friday, October 7th from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Awards

There will be over $3000 awarded for a variety of categories, including new categories for our teen entries and a new one-time award for this year only: Best Oil Award. This is being given by family in honor of Ramona Batsford Bendin.

Until her death in 2013, oil painter Ramona Batsford Bendin was one of the area’s most prominent artists. Originally from New York, she had lived in coastal North Carolina since 1990, finding much of her inspiration from the local coastline and marshlands. She was a lifetime member of the American Artist Professional League and was elected to New York’s Hudson Valley Art Association. Locally, she was a member of Brunswick Arts Council, Wilmington Art Association, Associated Artists of Southport, and Waterway Art Association. Throughout her career, her peers awarded her many prestigious honors, including the Award of Excellence, National League of American Pen Women; Mrs. John Newington Portrait Award, Hudson Valley Art Assoc; Best In Show, National League of American Pen Women; and First Place, Associated Artists of Southport Spring Show.

Art Show Judge

Each year a prominent regional artist is asked the serve as judge for the show. This year, Sharon Wozniak Spencer, an award-winning artist, painter, educator, exhibitor and instructor at the Cameron Art Museum and Cape Fear Community will serve as judge. Sharon earned her BFA in art school at The University of Maryland (1990); an MA in art education at The Ohio State University (1996) and her MFA at the San Francisco Academy of Art University (2017). Sharon was an artist in resident for the Hope Center in Wilmington, NC where she created a series of paintings about those in need and Sharon was an intern for the Cameron Museum of Art, where she had a show and discussion on “Faces of Courage”.

Her current group show: Eden Village a Collective Exhibition, that she put together through the Wilson Center and the Wilma Daniels Gallery at CFCC is a benefit show for Eden Village of Wilmington. Further information is available in the bio, photo (below) and on her website: www.swspencer.com

Art with Heart Donations

This year, we are asking artists to donate a piece of their work to the “ART with HEART” Art Auction Event to benefit New Hope Clinic. New Hope Clinic is a volunteer driven non-profit organization that provides free health care (medical, dental, eye and pharmacy services) to low-income, uninsured individuals across the county. The ART with HEART Event will be held on October 23rd in Southport. For your convenience, please bring your donation of artwork to LCAC on September 24 when you are dropping off your Art Show entry pieces. We will have a separate take-in table with forms for donations. www.newhopeclinicfree.org

Art Show Team

Coordinator of this year’s exhibit is Lee Selbe with assistance from Joeli Franks (LCAC), Ricardo Perez (ALL), Shane Miller (Visual Arts Coordinator for BCSD), Jamie Lynn Robinson (BAC Board Member) and Mary Beth Livers (BAC).

Art Show Reception October 7

There will be a reception and awards presentation during the show on Friday, October 7 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Leland Cultural Arts Center. The public is invited to attend the show anytime during the week and to attend the reception on Friday.

Additional Information

For additional information about the Brunswick Arts Council itself, membership information and further details about the Annual Exhibit and Sale, visit the website- www.brunswickartscouncil.org the Facebook page- Facebook.com/brunswickartscouncil.
For questions or more information, contact Mary Beth at Brunswick Arts Council at 910.448.1016 or email execdir.brunswickartscouncil@gmail.com.

About the Brunswick Arts Council

The mission of Brunswick Arts Council (BAC) is to support, sustain, enhance, and cultivate the arts in Brunswick County making cultural events, arts education, and appreciation of the arts available to the diverse range of county residents. Formed in 1981, BAC is the designated community partner with NC Arts Council, helping to subgrant more than $1,120,000 in grants into Brunswick arts organizations, groups, and programs across the county. Additionally, we partner with other agencies, including Brunswick County to provide other programs, events, awards, grants, project development and additional support to organizations and artists living and working in the county. www.brunswickartscouncil.org

About the North Carolina Arts Council

The North Carolina Arts Council builds on our state’s longstanding love of the arts, leading the way to a more vibrant future. The Arts Council is an economic catalyst, fueling a thriving nonprofit creative sector that generates $2.12 billion in annual direct economic activity. The Arts Council also sustains diverse arts expression and traditions while investing in innovative approaches to art-making. The North Carolina Arts Council has proven to be a champion for youth by cultivating tomorrow’s creative citizens through arts education. www.NCArts.org

Sharon Wozniak Spencer

Judge Artist Bio

Sharon Wozniak-Spencer grew up in the metropolitan area of Washington D.C., she was influenced heavily by her mother’s interest in art and frequent trips to museums. This created a desire for Sharon to earn her BFA in art school at The University of Maryland, where she graduated in 1990. Sharon continued to pursue an MA in art education at The Ohio State University where she completed her MA in 1996. The degree offered Sharon opportunities to teach at OSU as a teaching assistant and at local galleries.

Sharon continued to be heavily involved in pursuing her own art career, through shows at Cameron Art Museum, Land Fall Art Show, and the Arboretum Art Show, as well as others in Connecticut and Ohio. In order to develop her career further, she decided to pursue her MFA at the San Francisco Academy of Art University, where she graduated in 2017. While at AAU, Sharon was an artist in resident for the Hope Center in Wilmington, NC where she created a series of paintings about those in need and Sharon was an intern for the Cameron Museum of Art, where she had a show and discussion on “Faces of Courage”.

Her current group show: Eden Village a Collective Exhibition, that she put together through the Wilson Center and the Wilma Daniels Gallery at CFCC is a benefit show for Eden Village of Wilmington. Eden Village is creating 31 tiny homes for Wilmington’s chronically homeless. Sharon is very excited to put this show together as it will outlive the show and benefit. She helped coordinate other CFCC departments from Dental, Nursing, OT, EWD, and Phi Theta Kappa to help Eden Village’s community and residents. This to Sharon is a show well done as the community at large is involved in the benefit, students from CFCC and departments will be involved in bettering the community, and the community at large will be able to see the benefit of helping others in need.

by AWG Team

ART CONTEST: Brunswick County encourages youth to imagine their neighborhood in 2040

Brunswick County students heard our call.  See the results of the Blueprint Brunswick 2040 Art Contest. LINK:   Blueprint Brunswick 2040 Youth Art Contest Winners - Final

Blueprint Brunswick 2040 Youth Art Contest Winners

In February of 2021 Brunswick County announced the Blueprint Brunswick 2040 Art Contest to invite the youth to help shape the County’s vision for the future! Through the support of Brunswick County Schools and a partnership with the Brunswick Arts County the Blueprint Brunswick 2040 Art was created to raise awareness and increase community engagement for the Blueprint Brunswick 2040 Project in a fun interactive way! The Contest invited the youth of Brunswick County to contribute to a significant County-wide planning process by helping shape the vision of the future.

The contest was open to students in grades K-12 or those homeschooled from ages 5 to 17 and invited schools from around the County to participate including Brunswick County Schools, homeschools, as well as charter and private schools. Participants were asked to show their vision of Brunswick County’s future using mediums such as acrylic paint, watercolors, tempera paint, colored pencils, markers, and crayons with a submission deadline of March 31^st.

Entries were separated into 4 grade level categories: grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd place awards were given in each category with $100 checks from the Brunswick Arts Council for the schools with the most submissions. Waccamaw School submitted the most submissions in the K-2 and 3-5 grade categories and tied with Leland Middle School in the 6-8 category. North Brunswick High School had the most submissions in the 9-12 grade category.

Local artists and members of the Planning and Parks and Recreation Departments judged the submissions and decided the 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd place winners within each category. In addition, the Planning Department and Parks and Recreation Department each picked their favorite. Contest winners were announced May 4^th. Prizes for winners include gift cards, art supplies, and a framed award.

The Blueprint Brunswick 2040 Youth Art Contest increased participation and engagement with the Blueprint Brunswick 2040 Plan as well as promoted the arts in Brunswick County. Be sure to look for the winning artwork on June 19^th, 2021 at the Brunswick Arts Council’s Solstice by the Sea Festival at Middleton Park in Oak Island as well as in the upcoming Brunswick County Future Land Use Plan and Parks and Recreation Master Plan! To have a look at the contest winners click the link below!

The art contest was organized through a partnership between Brunswick County and the Brunswick
Arts Council.

LINK:   Blueprint Brunswick 2040 Youth Art Contest Winners - Final

by AWG Team

3rd Annual Artisan Holiday Market at Mayfaire (Call for NC Artists)

Call for Artists (North Carolina Only)

We are happy to announce our third annual holiday market at Mayfaire. The application process is now open.

The market will be open 7 days a week from November 1^st -December 27th

This event is sponsored by Going Local, if you are not familiar with us, check us out on FB and Insta Going Local NC

Goinglocalnc.com

We are offering 4 size spaces.

Pricing is for the whole two months

Mini: 2 ft wall/cabinet size space $200 plus %15 of sales

Typical: 3ft wall/cabinet size space $300 plus 15% of sales

Midsize 4 ft wall/cabinet size space

$400 plus 15% of sales

Large a 6ft wall/cabinet size space

$600 plus 15% of sales

Going Local is sponsoring this event.  We provide the venue, staff, gift wrapping, collect sales tax, utilities, marketing, and a centralized checkout. Your job is to bring the art and display. We also have a sophisticated point of sales system that tracts each individuals’ sales by an assigned vendor number and we have a cloud-based app where each vendor can track their sales daily.  We pay thru direct deposit and each vendor will receive an emailed report detailing all of their sales.

Submit of few pics of your work, if you have a website please send a link.  Let us know what size space you are applying for.  You must be the maker of your work, your art printed on items: cards, prints, bags… is allowed.

All style of arts and crafts will be considered.  This is a juried event, Follow this link to apply: https://forms.gle/V6y3uz5VEYL1g6rJ7

Any questions please send to the email address goinglocalholiday@gmail.com 

Lets end 2020 with a bang! It has been a tough year for artisans, shows cancelled, festivals cancelled, we are a strong community and lets rock this!  

by AWG Team

For Immediate Release: Brunswick Arts Council Accepting Applications for North Carolina Cares for Arts Grants

Brunswick Arts Council is now accepting applications for North Carolina CARES for Arts grants through November 9, 2020.  ​

​The North Carolina General Assembly designated $9.4 million federal CARES Act funds for arts councils and arts organizations to mitigate business disruptions caused by COVID-19. The North Carolina Arts Council will distribute these funds on a per-capita basis to all North Carolina counties with a population of less than one million people.  In many counties, local arts councils will receive the funds and then sub-grant a portion of the county allotment to eligible recipients. 

 Arts and cultural organizations, arts groups and businesses, and/or individual artists are eligable to apply for a North Carolina CARES for Arts grant to offset business disruption and/or expenses incurred due to COVID-19 between March 1, 2020, and December 30, 2020. The following expenses can be considered: paid salaries and benefits (including contractors), on-going operating expenses, costs associated with canceling programs and creating virtual programs, and COVID-related safety and cleaning measures. Applicants must provide documentation as evidence for expenses. Documents such as receipts, bill/invoices, monthly financial statements, and payroll ledgers will be considered.  

 Revenue losses are not considered for mitigation in this grant program. North Carolina CARES for Arts funding cannot reimburse expenses already paid for by other federal relief funds such as PPP loans, direct grants from the NEA, and stimulus grants issued by the North Carolina Arts Council.  

Application forms and grant guidelines are available on the Brunswick Arts Council website at www.brunswickartscouncil.org.  Applications must be received no later than November 9, 2020.  For questions or more information, contact Mary Beth at Brunswick Arts Council at  910.899.8407 or  910.448.1016 or email execdir.brunswickartscouncil@gmail.com. 

About the Brunswick Arts Council 

The mission of Brunswick Arts Council (BAC) is to support, sustain, enhance and cultivate the arts in Brunswick County making cultural events, arts education and appreciation of the arts available to the diverse range of county residents. Formed in 1981, BAC is the designated community partner with NC Arts Council, helping to subgrant more than $800,000 in Grassroots grants into Brunswick arts organization, and programs across the county. Additionally, we partner with other agencies, including Brunswick County to provide other programs, events, awards, grants, project development and additional support to organizations and artists living and working in the county. www.brunswickartscouncil.org 

About the North Carolina Arts Council 

The North Carolina Arts Council builds on our state’s longstanding love of the arts, leading the way to a more vibrant future. The Arts Council is an economic catalyst, fueling a thriving nonprofit creative sector that generates $2.12 billion in annual direct economic activity. The Arts Council also sustains diverse arts expression and traditions while investing in innovative approaches to art-making. The North Carolina Arts Council has proven to be a champion for youth by cultivating tomorrow’s creative citizens through arts education. www.NCArts.org

by AWG Team