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There will be a special award from Urban Seeds for artwork that highlights the beauty and significance of fresh, local ingredients and agriculture. Please review their website and check out the programs they offer. Local food is for everyone! If you wish to submit art, visit our Calls for Art page.
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ARTSWIN’s Halloween-themed art exhibit
(All entries must be Pre-Registered)
Concept
The Arts Council is all about Halloween, and we’re back with our annual Spooky Show this fall! Throughout October, our gallery will be packed with spooky, funny, and whimsical creations. We’ll fill our walls with eerie 2D scenes and spirits, but we also want our 3D artists to summon some creepy creatures to haunt the gallery for the season.

Introducing Artist Advancement Grants
New this year, the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana is announcing a new regional artist grant program. The artist advancement grants are intended to directly benefit individual artists by funding the creation of new work, community projects, or the advancement of artists’ careers. The Arts Council will be receiving grant applications until Friday, August 2nd.
Eligibility
- Applicants must live or work in Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Knox, Perry, Posey, Pike, Vanderburgh, Warrick, or Spencer Counties of Indiana.
- Applicants must be at least 18 years of age, or have a parental or guardian co-applicant
- Applicants may work in any discipline of the visual, literary, or performance arts
Review the eligible fund uses, and selection criteria on the online application here or the downloadable application here.
Timeline
Registration deadline: Aug 2nd by 11:59 p.m.
Application Review by Committee: Aug 5th – Aug 21st
Grant Notifications: Aug 28th
Funds Disbursed (and mailed): early September
For questions, please email Executive Director Anne McKim at [email protected] or by calling the gallery at 812-303-3178 with questions.
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The Arts Council loves Halloween, and to celebrate, we will host our annual Spooky Show this fall, filling the gallery with loads of scary, funny, and whimsical creations during the month of October. While we hope to display many 2D scary scenes and specters on the walls, we want our 3D artists to conjure creepy creatures that can take residence in the gallery for the Spooky Season.
Download or view the prospectus: SpookyShow2023_Prospectus
TIMELINE:
Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 21 by 4pm
(Email or mail [email protected]: 212 Main Street, Evansville, IN 47708)
Artwork Drop off: Friday, September 29 between 10am-4pm
(Arts Council, 212 Main Street)
Exhibit Dates: October 5 – October 27
Artist Reception: Saturday, October 21, 5-6:30pm
Artwork Pick-up: Tuesday, October 31, 10am-4pm
(Arts Council, 212 Main Street)
AWARDS and Juror:
First Place: $300
Second Place: $200
Third Place: $100
The juror for this exhibit is Kyle Darnell, Signature School art teacher and ARTSWIN artist member.
The Spooky Show is generously sponsored by Engelbrecht Enterprises.
The latest art exhibit, Wall To Table, on display at the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana marries 2D (wall) art with 3D (ceramics) art for a collective experience.
Clay artists were invited to consider the space that 2D and 3D art occupy and work to bridge the gap. Ceramics are often considered “work for the table or pedestal.” Our national call for participation encouraged ceramic artists to show their ability to take their work in a new direction and bring in the walls around them. A national call for art was met with pieces from Indiana, Kentucky, Georgia, and Ohio.
Al Holen and Brett Anderson assisted Gallery Director Andrea Adams in planning and organizing this exhibit, starting with the call for art to setting up the show in the gallery and ending with jurying the exhibit for cash awards to be announced at the reception on Saturday, August 19 from 5-6:30pm.
Juror Statements
Wall to Table
Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana
Alisa (Al) Holen, Associate Professor of Ceramics at the University of Southern Indiana
The initial concept for this show came from a desire to fully utilize the unique footprint of the ARTSWIN gallery with a 3D Ceramics exhibition. Many ceramic artists work from sketches or specific visual sources, which can give us great information about how the ceramic piece was developed. Many ceramic artists consider their work for a specific environment – the table, the garden, or a specific space. With this, we were looking for unique pairings of 3D ceramic objects with strong 2D staging, information, or presentation elements.
Beyond this, I use a simple rubric for the jury process. Completion, Creativity, Challenge, and Craftpersonship.
- Completion: Did the artist see the work through to a fully completed statement?
- Creativity: Did the artist go beyond an obvious solution and think creatively?
- Challenge: Did the artist challenge themselves to bring the work to the next level?
- Craftspersonship: Is the work finished with attention to detail?
Because we juried from digital images, the quality of photography also played into the jury process.
We made some difficult choices, but I think we chose a cohesive and compelling group of works! Congratulations to all who entered! This was a new challenge for most, and we hope to encourage all artists to continue to take risks and get the work “out there”!
Brett Anderson, Director of McCutchan Art Center and Pace Galleries
Many artists are multifaceted in their approach to process and find reworking the same concept with different media often leads to satisfying alternatives that couldn’t be achieved otherwise. There are also conventions of genre and functionality linked to many artistic processes, like ceramics and printmaking; whether an artist lends into or rejects these conventions becomes an important aspect of using that specific process. These types of concerns, as well as the artist’s visual dialogue between their two-dimensional and three-dimensional components, were the most important criteria by which I considered the pieces submitted in my role as co-juror for this exhibition.
Additionally, several artists also used the show parameters as an impetus to collaborate with others, or to make new work specifically in response to the exhibition concept, Kudos! My thanks to everyone who responded to the open call, our invitation was a complex puzzle to solve.
Wall To Table is available to view in person at the gallery from 10am to 4pm Tuesday through Friday until September 28.












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