Make your mark at 'Drawing Works 2019'
Showcase your drawing skills for a chance at a spot in this annual juried exhibition and $1,000 or $500 cash prizes. Undergraduate students from all SCAD locations and majors are eligible.
Submission period: Oct. 29, 2018–Jan. 25, 2019
Notification of inclusion: Friday, Feb. 8, 2019
Exhibition: March 8–24, 2019 | Alexander Hall Gallery
Reception: Friday, March 8, 2019, 6–7:30 p.m. | Alexander Hall Gallery
Email foundation studies professor Ron Longsdorf at [email protected] for more information.
Award categories
Best in Show ($1,000 prize): Awarded for outstanding contemporary aesthetic and conceptual qualities, inventive use of content, composition and media handling techniques, and fully expresses the unique attributes of drawing
Process Award ($500.00 prize): Awarded for demonstrating exploration of concept and composition using preparatory sketch methods to inform and support research and development processes
Explorative Play Award ($500.00 prize): Awarded for creatively experimenting with traditional and/or nontraditional drawing media, expressive mark making and gestural approaches
Composition Award ($500.00 prize): Awarded for artwork that displays exemplary drawing abilities in the production of a fully realized finished work
Submission requirements
- Entrant must be a current SCAD undergraduate student enrolled in a major/minor program at any SCAD location.
- Submit 1–3 images by 11:59 p.m., Friday, Jan. 25, 2019. Submitted works must have been created during enrollment at SCAD.
- Jury is looking for drawings and sketches using any combination of analog, digital and unconventional drawing methods. Diverse drawing practices will be considered, showing traditional and unconventional use of media, experimentation, aesthetic expressions, styles and formats, including but not limited to: sketchbooks, drawings intended for digital display, illustrations, fine art drawings, storyboards, prints, conceptual and process sketches, and technical working drawings and 3-D drawings.
How to enter
1. Upload digital images through Submittable. Include the following information in the Submittable form: full name, contact information, SCAD location, major/minor, SCAD email address and phone number.
2. Upload 1–3 works for consideration with the following information:
- Title of work
- Medium
- Dimensions (2-D works: H x W or 3-D works: H x W x D)
- Artist price
- Is this work intended for digital display? If yes, explain.
3. Complete the following survey questions:
- Are you a drawing minor?
- Do you want someone to contact you about becoming a drawing minor?
- How did you hear about this opportunity?
If your work is accepted for exhibition, you must abide by the following requirements and timeline:
- Deliver accepted physical works Feb. 25–March 1 to SCAD Exhibition Storage. Email Michael Runnels at [email protected] to schedule drop-off/delivery. Email accepted digital works to Ben Tollefson at [email protected] by Friday, March 1.
- All accepted physical drawings or digital prints must be professionally framed and ready to hang prior to drop-off or delivery to Exhibition Storage. SCAD Frame shop offers a discount to works accepted in "Drawing Works 2019." Contact Nanette Troiani at [email protected] if you wish to use SCAD Frame Shop. Students are responsible for framing of accepted work.
- Digital prints must be high quality and color corrected from RGB to CMYK.
- Digital works will be displayed on an LCD screen and must be formatted for optimal viewing.
- If actual work differs from submitted images, it may be not be included in the exhibition.
- Accepted works from Hong Kong must be displayed digitally. Accepted works from Atlanta have the option to display digital or shipped to Savannah.
- Deliver or ship ready-to-hang framed work to SCAD Exhibition Storage, Attn: Michael Runnels, Registrar, 102 E. Lathrop Ave., Savannah, GA 31415.
- When the exhibition ends, email Michael Runnels at [email protected] to schedule return or pick up of work from 102 E. Lathrop Ave., Savannah, GA, March 25–29, 2019. SCAD Exhibitions is not responsible for storage of work if not picked up by end of spring quarter (May 30, 2019).