2024 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition Call For Submissions

The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs announces a call for submissions for the City Gallery’s 2024 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition. The exhibition will be held at the City Gallery at Joe Riley Waterfront Park and on view from May 24 through June 9, 2024.

The annual juried art exhibition highlights the recent work of artists across South Carolina featuring painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and photography. Open to all SC residents, the 2024 Juried Art Exhibition will be held at the City Gallery at Joe Riley Waterfront Park, with an art delivery date of May 13. This year’s Juror is surrealist artist Richard Hagerty.

This year’s prizes include Best in Show, with an award of $750, second place, with an award of $500, and third place, with an award of $250. Artworks receiving prizes are presented alongside a limited selection of pieces identified by the juror as meriting display.

Applications are due by April 8, 2024.

Entry Specifications:

Submitted work must have been completed within the last two years. Work previously exhibited in the 2023 Piccolo Spoleto Festival Juried Art Exhibitions, the 2023 MOJA Arts Festival, at the City Gallery at any time, or exhibited at the 2023 ArtFields or the 2023 North Charleston Judged Art Exhibition will not be considered.

Artwork in the following categories may be submitted: oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, printmaking, drawing, photography, and graphics. Additional work in fiber, sculpture, metals, ceramics, basketry, and mixed media will also be juried. Wall pieces must be framed or gallery wrapped and ready for hanging. No pieces will be accepted with saw-tooth hangers. Freestanding pieces must be fully assembled and ready for installation.

City Gallery reserves the right to exclude work based on the way a piece is framed and mounted to ensure a cohesive look for the exhibition and the right to exhibit sculpture in alternate locations to accommodate work of varied size or scale.

Accepted artwork may not be removed before the assigned time. Early removal or late pick-up will result in disqualification from future Exhibitions. An exhibition program listing participating artists, their phone number, title and value of artwork will be available. Insurance is provided while on display.

Submissions

Submitted artwork must comply fully with the following requirements for originality and date of completion:

1. the artwork is an original creation completed within the last year and is not, in whole or in part, a copy of any person’s work or photograph, and

2. the artwork was created solely by the artist and not in a workshop, class, or under supervision of an instructor.

Deadline: April 8, 2024

Application Fee: $20.00 (USD)

Application Link:

https://cgwp.slideroom.com/#/permalink/program/77242

Selections for the exhibition will be made by early May, and artists will be notified of their status by email.

For More Information:

Please contact Anne Quattlebaum, City Gallery Manager, via phone

(843) 958-6484 or email QuattlebaumA@charleston-sc.gov; or visit the City Gallery website here and the Piccolo Spoleto website here.

About the Juror

Richard Hagerty, American Surrealist

Richard Hagerty was born in 1950 in Durham, NC, at Duke University Hospital, the place for which he is nicknamed “Duke.” He was raised in Charleston and studied at Porter-Gaud School. Hagerty’s first serious exposure to art came in his youth, when he attended the salons of the museum and education pioneer, Laura Bragg, in her Charleston home. Bragg introduced Hagerty to the work of the famous Flemish artist, Hieronymus Bosch, and the self-taught genius, Henri Rousseau, whom he deeply admired.

Hagerty grew up with his future wife and “muse” Barbara, who joined him at Johns Hopkins University, where he received his undergraduate degree in 1973. The couple married that year, moved to Durham, and he started Duke University Medical School. They began a family and lived in Atlanta during his residency training in plastic surgery at Emory University from 1977 to 1984. He returned to Charleston that summer and entered his father’s practice, which evolved into his own.

While painting creative visions in the night hours, he and Barbara have raised a family of four children. Hagerty has also been the focus of numerous solo and group exhibitions at such museums as The Gibbes, Albany, Burroughs-Chapin, and Bascom, and in numerous galleries in Charleston, Atlanta, New York City, Nantucket and elsewhere. His solo exhibition, Richard Hagerty: American Surrealist was held at City Gallery in 2015.

He has a special interest in cleft lip-and-palate surgery and has traveled overseas regularly as a volunteer to train local surgeons in Haiti, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Peru, and China. An ardent environmentalist, he is involved in land conservation in several capacities. Hagerty has been actively engaged in civic service, having served as a City Councilman from 1996 to 1999.