The Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville has announced a call for entries for its Tenth Annual National Juried Exhibition of 2016. The National Juried Exhibition was developed to provide a forum for artists to compete on a national scale and display their work. Approximately 40-50 fine art works encompassing all styles and genres from both emerging and established artists will comprise the exhibition in the Balcony gallery of the Emporium Center at 100 S. Gay Street from February 5-26, 2016. The Emporium is free and open to the public Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, 1st & 3rd Sundays, 3:30-6:30 PM, and other hours for special events.

The deadline for entries to be received is Sunday, December 6, 2015.

Prizes include at least $1,000 in cash awards, and exhibiting artists will receive a catalog of the exhibition. Click here to download the prospectus (PDF), or view the information online. Artists may apply online or download an application; alternately, send an SASE to Suzanne Cada, Arts & Culture Alliance, PO Box 2506, Knoxville, TN 37901.

The call for entries is open to all artists. Entries must be original works completed within the last two years in the following categories: 2-D (painting, drawing, mixed media, printmaking, photography) and 3-D (sculpture of all media). Work may not have previously exhibited in any Alliance exhibition. The nonrefundable entry fee is $40 for up to three works ($25 for Arts & Culture Alliance members and students). Up to three additional entries may be submitted for $7/each ($5 for members/students). Samantha Andrews, Assistant Director of Experiential Learning at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, will jury the exhibition.

More information about the program, as well as images from previous exhibitions, can be found at www.knoxalliance.com/nje.html. The National Juried Exhibition of 2015 featured the work of 30 regional artists as selected by juror Stefanie Gerber Darr.