The Arkansas Arts Center announces a call for entries for the “54th Annual Delta Exhibition.”  The deadline to submit all entries is October 14, 2011.  The exhibition will be held at the Arkansas Arts Center January 27 – March 28, 2012.The “54th Annual Delta Exhibition” is open to all artists who live in or were born in one of the following states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.  Artists can submit up to three entries.  A non-refundable entry fee of $20 for one entry and $10 for additional entries is required.  All work must be original and completed within the last two years.  Artists can view guidelines and enter online at www.arkarts.com.

Tom Butler, executive director of the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Ga., will serve as juror for the “54th Annual Delta Exhibition.”  Butler was previously the director of the Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia and the chief curator and assistant director of the Sioux City Art Center in Iowa. Throughout his museum career, he has organized over 100 exhibitions of drawings, paintings, sculptures, graphics, decorative arts and textiles.  He organized the exhibition “Lines of Discovery: 225 Years of American Drawing," which was on view at the Arkansas Arts Center January 26 – April 1, 2007, and was general editor of the book of the same title.

The “Annual Delta Exhibition” was created in 1956 to feature contemporary works by artists from Arkansas and the bordering states.  The Delta Exhibition has grown to encompass works in all media and represents current art making trends in the mid-South.

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