Watauga County Arts Council
Presents the
2nd Annual Juried Exhibition
AWARDS: Works of art will be selected by a jury for inclusion in this annual exhibition and, from among these selected
works three cash prizes will be awarded. The amount of the cash prize monies will be dependent upon the number of
entries received since a portion of the proceeds will be allocated to prize monies.
ELIGIBILITY: Open to any resident 18 years and older who resides for all or a portion of the year in Watauga or
adjoining counties. Work must have been created within the past two years.
ENTRIES: Works may be created in any medium, but must be 2D in orientation. The pieces must not exceed 40” in any
direction. Works must be framed or gallery wrapped with hanging wires and ready to hang. All artwork must be
original. No giclee or digital reproductions will be accepted.
Entry deadline: Monday, March 19, 2012
SUBMISSIONS: Download ENTRY FORM from www.watauga-arts.org. Each artist may enter up to three works. ($10
for one; $15 for two; or $20 for three.) Entry form and fees must be submitted with images. Images may be submitted as
follows:
 JPEG formatted images up to 10” in any dimension and 72dpi (less than 1.5 MB each). Email to wcac@wataugaarts.org. Pay entry fee online at www.watauga-arts.org or mail check to:
 Watauga County Arts Council, P.O. Box 366 Boone, NC 28607.
 Unframed photographs of up to 8x10 of original work may be submitted in person to Art Mart, 188 Boone
Heights Drive. Entry fee will be paid at the time of submission.
 Disk format may be submitted in person to Art Mart, 188 Boone Heights Drive. Entry fee will be paid at the time
of submission.
No original works will be accepted as submissions for the jury process. Title JPEGs and unframed photographs as follows:
LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, Title of work, Dimensions of work.
Artists will be notified by March 28, 2012 if their work is to be included in the exhibit. If you have any questions about entry
submissions, please contact the Arts Council at 828-264-1789.
ACCEPTED WORKS: All accepted works must be hand delivered either to:
Art Mart (between March 28 - April 2)
188 Boone Heights Drive
Boone, NC 28607
or to
Watauga County Arts Council (between March 28 - April 2)
Jones House Community Center
604 West King Street
Boone, NC 28607
EXHIBITION DATES: Friday, April 6 — Friday, April 27, 2012. There will be a Gallery Reception to Announce the
Winners on Friday, April 6th at 6:30 pm.
PICK UP DATE: Monday, April 30, 2012 between noon and 5:00 pm.
Pieces not picked up within 15 days from the close of the exhibition will become the property of the Watauga County Arts
Council.
LIABILITY: The artist shall understand that the Watauga County Arts Council will take all possible precautions to ensure
the safety of the works exhibited in the Jones House Community Center, which includes limited insurance coverage for
fire and theft but cannot be responsible for other occurrences.
The Arts Council insures the work while it is at the Jones House Community Center, but in the event there is damage or
theft, there is a $500 deductible for each occurrence. It is suggested that artists procure separate insurance to help cover
the cost of a deductible. In the event of damage, loss, or theft the artist should be prepared to present proof of market
value of the work. This may be through documentation of sales of comparable pieces, previous gallery contracts
establishing value, or the professional opinion of an appraiser. If, in the judgment of the WCAC, the stated value of a
work is questionable, documentation of value may be required in advance.
By delivering their work to the Art Mart instead of directly to the Watauga County Arts Council at the Jones House
Community Center the artist understands and agrees that the owner is in no way liable for any damage to the work that
may occur prior to its being brought to the Arts Council.
Juror Warren Cameron Dennis (September 26, 1927) was born in Clarksdale, MS. He received a B.A. degree in art from
the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg in 1953. In 1955 he received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the
University of Mississippi in Oxford. During the summer of 1950, he studied painting at the University of Minnesota in
Duluth with renowned Japanese-American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi. While at the University of Mississippi he studied
with visiting artists Jack Tworkov, painter, and David Smith, sculptor.
From 1955 to 1965 Professor Dennis was head of the Art Department at Judson College in Marion, Alabama. He was
appointed to Appalachian State University in 1965. From 1980 through 1984 he served as chair of the Appalachian State
Department of Art. He was one of the original developers of the Appalachian-New York Loft Program and was campus
director of the NY-Loft for a number of years. In addition, he spent three separate semesters (in 1985, 1989, and 1993) and
the summer term of 1982 in New York City as resident director of the loft.
In 1977-78 Dennis was awarded the first scholarly leave granted by the Department of Art. In the summer of 1985 and
again in 1987, he organized and directed “Art in Europe,” Appalachian’s Study Abroad Program, designed to allow
students to study the great art of Europe in such places as Florence, Rome, Venice, Paris and Amsterdam.
Dennis is an exhibiting artist whose paintings are in public and private collections all over the United States, including the
Allan Stone Gallery in New York City, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, the Mississippi Museum in
Jackson, and the Hickory Museum of Art in North Carolina. He has had two large one-person exhibits in Appalachian’s
Catherine Smith Gallery: “A Thirty-Year Retrospective” in 1980 and “1980 Forward” in 1992. His solo exhibitions total
well over fifty, and he has participated in numerous group and competitive exhibits throughout the country.
Professor Dennis retired from Appalachian State University in January 1994, receiving the rank of professor emeritus at
that time. He immediately began the full-time pursuit of his art career and has been busy painting and arranging
exhibits. He spent one summer term in 2003 as resident director of the Appalachian House in Washington, DC.
In 2002, Dennis was invited to show his painting “The Swing” in “True Colors: Meditations on the American Spirit,” an
exhibition organized by the Meridian International Center, Washington, DC, as a response by artists to the events of
September 11, 2001. The show opened in February 2002, in Washington, and throughout the next three years it toured the
United States and traveled abroad to such places as Berlin, Germany; Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey; Belfast, Northern
Ireland; Bratislava, Slovakia; and Tirana, Albania.
Warran Dennis’s mural “The Park,” a 7’ x 18’ work on three panels, completed in 2001, now hangs in the Burke Mission
Station in Morganton, NC—a gift of the artist and a permanent installation. Two North Carolina galleries currently
represent him: Carlton Art Gallery in Banner Elk and New Elements Gallery in Wilmington.
Professor Dennis continues to live in Boone with his wife, Dr. Mary Kate Lowrey Dennis, who has retired from adjunct
teaching in the Appalachian State English Department. They have four children: Anna Kathryn Sartin of Rock Hill, SC;
Warren Cameron Dennis III of Winston-Salem, NC; Edwin Lowrey Dennis of Clyde, NC; and Martha Rosamond Dennis
of Athens, GA. They also have six grandchildren: Marianna Landon Sartin of Charlotte; Kathryn Nell Sartin of London,
England; Ian Cameron and Max Harrison Dennis of Winston-Salem, NC; and Andrew Stovall and Michael Perrin Dennis
of Clyde, NC.