The Museum homepage • Current Exhibitions The Spartanburg Arts homepage • Sparklenet homepage in the Milliken & Parsons Galleries The Third Biennial HUB CITY REGIONAL BIENNIAL JURIED ART COMPETITION November 19, 2005 - January 8, 2006

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The Third Biennial
HUB CITY REGIONAL BIENNIAL JURIED ART COMPETITION

selected by Dr. Marian Wardle,
Curator of American Art, Brigham Young University Museum of Art

award winners • view the exhibition • 1 • 2 • 3 • 4

about the show • about the juror • juror's statement

The Award Winners NOTE: If your name appears in this list and you have a permanent website, please send your name and web address here. Indicate that you want your site linked to your name on the Hub City 2005 page.   First Place - $2,000 In memory of Jean Price Blackford sponsored by her family D. Pierce Giltner • Chester Those Days, acrylic
Second Place - $1,000 In memory of Josephine Sibley Couper sponsored by Kathie & Peter Weisman George Handy • Asheville Fields and Sky, mixed-media acrylic and polymer	Third Place - $750 In memory of Helen DuPré Moseley sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. John B. White ,Jr. Teresa Prater • Pacolet Spirit Child #1, photography	Honorable Mention $500 In memory of Margaret M. Law sponsored by Margi Cates, & Eddie Hayes Mary Alice Lockhart • Aiken Sixteen Cows, acrylic
Merit Award - $250 Deborah Tidwell Holtzscheiter • Aiken Barefoot and Pregnant, oil	Merit Award - $250 Cecile L. K. Martin • Seneca Beauty is where it is perceived..., monoprint/colored pencil	Merit Award - $250 Robin Anne Cooper • Clemson Sad Angel, painted canvas collage
Merit Award - $250 Marion H. Carroll • Anderson Blue Skies, photography	Merit Award - $250 Peter Kaniaris • Anderson Blue Reprise: Chair and Book, oil	Merit Award - $250 Nathan Cox • Anderson *Some Assembly Required, mixed-media
Merit Award - $250 Silas DeKind, Jr. • Georgetown Fishing Village, wood, acrylic	Merit Award - $250 Michael Slattery • Taylors Madison Avenue BMW, ink	Merit Award - $250 Robert Tynes • Black Mountain, North Carolina Chance Encounter, acylic/oil
	Merit Award - $250 Barbara DeLue • Greer Crying for Mercy, watercolor

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Juror’s Statement I have considered it a privilege to jury the Third Hub City Biennial Art Competition. Both the high quality of the majority of the pieces submitted to the show, and the large number of works, made my task difficult, but at the same time enjoyable. The wide variety of styles and media produced an extremely interesting experience for me. I also enjoyed meeting the Administrative staff and members of the board of the Spartanburg Museum of Art. Teresa H. Mann and Scott Cunningham made my stay comfortable and pleasurable. I was asked to jury this show because of my recent experience in curating a large exhibition entitled Thoroughly Modern: The “New Women” Art Students of Robert Henri and editing and co-authoring the accompanying publication. The Brigham Young University Museum of Art borrowed from fifty collections across the country, including the Spartanburg Museum of Art. I selected works by Margaret Law, a favorite daughter of Spartanburg, after visiting the Museum and seeing her work here in the summer of 2003. I was captivated by the rhythmic, simplified forms in Law’s paintings of southern life. Her piece, Chain Gang, was a favorite among museum visitors as it hung in our Museum in Utah for the six-month run of the show. As part of my visit to Spartanburg this week, I delivered a speech on the women students of Henri, focusing much attention on Margaret Law. I sensed an understandable sense of community pride in Law and her work. This, accompanied by a recollection of her many paintings of field workers with bent backs and sloped shoulders, influenced my decision in choosing the first-place award for your Biennial Exhibition. It was a difficult decision because there was so much talent to choose from. When examining one of my favorite pieces, however—D. Pierce Giltner’s portrayal of field workers in bent postures, painted on weathered boards—it seemed fitting to have this innovative depiction of southern life, reminiscent of Margaret Law’s paintings, as the winner of the competition for this year.1 As I juried the rest of the show, I had one goal in mind—to have a strong showing by artists in the Spartanburg region. If notables from the national art scene were to arrive in Spartanburg and see the show, I wanted them to see that this area of the country has an abundance of artistic talent. This was not hard to do. I congratulate your community for the pursuit of excellence in the visual arts. Thank you for offering me the privilege to select a fine show of strong artworks for the Third Biennial Hub City Juried Art Competition. Marian Wardle, Brigham Young University Museum of Art Nov. 13, 2005 NOTE: Dr. Wardle’s decision to choose the First Place Award based on historical reference was her personal choice and did not reflect any preference by the Museum for a historical theme.