Florence County Museum Announces Competition Juror
The Florence County Museum is pleased to announce artist Alice Stone-Collins as juror for the 2023 Pee Dee Regional Art Competition.
Collins is an Atlanta based painter and collage artist who inserts surreal elements into familiar, suburban, and domestic imagery, creating a colorful and uniquely American symbolism.
She earned her MFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee and has exhibited her work regionally and nationally. She has been a resident artist at Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft and the David and Julia White Artist Colony in Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica. Currently, she is a faculty member at Georgia Gwinnett College in Metro Atlanta.
Artists’ entries for the 2023 Pee Dee Regional Art Competition will be taken online at flocomuseum.org/regional, from Friday, September 30 through Sunday, November 13. Any artist native to the Pee Dee area or currently living in Florence, Horry, Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Georgetown, Kershaw, Lee, Marion, Marlboro, Sumter, and Williamsburg counties are eligible to enter.
Cash awards have been increased this year; $1500 will be awarded to the competition’s first place winner, $1000 to second place, and $500 for third. The competition is sponsored by Chick-fil-A of Florence.
Prospectus, schedule, and registration details can be found at flocomuseum.org/regional. Questions may be directed to Florence County Museum, 843.676.1200.
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