Call for Artists: From These Hills 2023

CALL FOR ARTISTS

From These Hills 2023

Submission Fee: $20

William King Museum of Art (WKMA) in Abingdon, VA is pleased to announce a call for artists for our biennial exhibition, From These Hills: Contemporary Art in the Southern Appalachian Highlands. This major exhibition of new works by artists working in all media highlights the continuing artistic vision of individuals in our region.

The call is open to artists working in any media—painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, ceramics, glass, textiles, mixed media, video, or performance art—in the geographic areas of Southwest Virginia, Northeast Tennessee, Western North Carolina, Southern West Virginia, and Eastern Kentucky.

The 2023 exhibition will open at the William King Museum of Art on October 5, 2023 and will continue through February 4, 2024. Deadline for submissions is July 1, 2023. Accepted artists will be notified via email by August 1, 2023.

This exhibition will be guest-curated by Ali Printz, painter, curator, and scholar of art and Appalachian regionalism.

Ali Printz is an Appalachian historical painter, curator, and art historian who studies the exclusion of Appalachia in modern and contemporary American art and is currently pursuing a PhD from the Tyler School of Art & Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia. She received a BFA in Painting and BA in Art History from West Virginia University and an MA in Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York. Her research has been supported by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Henry Luce Foundation, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Center for Curatorial Leadership, and The Decorative Arts Trust. Her recent publications include Panorama Journal for the Association of Historians of American Art and inclusion in Queering Appalachia’s Visual History: A Collection of Queer Appalachian Photographers, published by the University of Kentucky Press in Fall 2024.

Producing as a painter for close to 20 years, Printz’s work addresses Appalachia’s cultural merits and multilayered histories and mixes elements of craft, found objects, and technology in combination with historic photographic sources. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally and at various venues throughout the Appalachian region. Her recent exhibitions include Du-Good, a retrospective of printmaker Leslie Diuguid at Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles, inclusion in the group exhibition Women’s Work: Redefining Appalachian Traditions at the University of Kentucky, and her solo exhibition Into the Mountains at William King Museum of Art in spring 2023.

If you have any questions or concerns please email Curator of Contemporary Fine Art and Craft, Anna Buchanan at abuchanan@wkmuseum.org.

How to Enter

To submit your work for this exhibition, please fill out the forms below.A submission fee of $20 is required upon entry.

If you have any questions or concerns please email Curator of Contemporary Fine Art and Craft, Anna Buchanan at abuchanan@wkmuseum.org.

Exhibition Calendar

• Deadline for Submissions: July 15, 2023
• Accepted artists will be notified via email by: August 1, 2023
• Exhibition opens: October 5, 2023
• Exhibition closes: February 4, 2024

Questions or comments? Email Anna Buchanan at abuchanan@wkmuseum.org or call (276) 628-5005 ext. 106.