WEYBURN – The deadline to enter the 39th annual James Weir People’s Choice exhibition is fast approaching, as the entry forms have to be in to the Weyburn Arts Council by Friday, Dec. 16.
Works need to be delivered to the Weyburn Art Gallery by 10 a.m. on Jan. 4, 2023, and deliveries to the Spark Centre can start on Dec. 17 during regular hours.
The exhibition will be on display for people’s votes from Jan. 5 to March 17, 2023, and the winners will be announced on March 24 at 7 p.m. in the Weyburn Art Gallery.
The James Weir exhibition is the longest running people's choice awards in Western Canada. In addition, James Weir was the first chair of the Weyburn Arts Council, which was one of the first arts councils formed in Saskatchewan.
The art competition gives amateur artists from Weyburn and the southeast region the opportunity to display their work in the Weyburn Art Gallery at the Credit Union Spark Centre. Artists must 16 years of age or older.
Patrons will be invited to vote on their favourite works of art, with the deadline for votes on March 17 at 5 p.m.
As in the past few years, Weyburn’s Speedy Glass will provide the trophies for first, second and third places.
The Arts Council requests that artists not sign their works, and that artists not post or share pictures of their work until the voting is over.
The names will be added once voting is over, and all artists will be acknowledged at the reception on March 24.
As a number of tours of the exhibition are given during the voting period, an artist’s statement about the work can be submitted, by sending them to curator Regan Lanning at rlanning@weyburn.ca.
All works of art must be recent, produced in 2020-22, and never shown in a gallery, with all mediums accepted. Items made from commercial patterns or from a paint night will not be accepted, nor paintings from photos that the artist does not own the rights to.
