Overview
Since 1960, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts has partnered with the Montgomery Art Guild to present a biennial exhibition of contemporary regional art in the museum’s galleries.
This 46th edition of the exhibit will present paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, photographs, computer graphics, mixed media, fiber art, and fine crafts by some of Alabama’s most talented contemporary artists. We aim to raise over $10,000 for cash awards for artists!
This year’s exhibit is based on the theme “Home” and can include realistic or abstract works inspired by characteristics or living conditions of our home state, including but not limited to its people, history, culture, geography, environment, and personal experiences. “Home” can be broadly interpreted, so show us your creativity.
Submit Your Work for Consideration
Submissions are accepted via Art Call until Tuesday, April 1, 2025. Please refer to the Art Call site for information regarding application requirements.
Meet the Juror
Jade Powers, Hugh Kaul Curator of Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art
Jade Powers joined the Birmingham Museum of Art as the Hugh Kaul Curator of Contemporary Art in September 2023. In this role, she directs the growth and development of the BMA’s contemporary art collection of more than 3,200 works and implements contemporary art exhibitions. Previously she was the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, Florida. There she spearheaded the reinstallation of community favorite public sculpture, Hammering Man at 2,938,405 by Johnathan Borofsky, was the on-site curator for the exhibition Posing Beauty in African American Culture, and acquired over 20 new works to the collection – 95% of which are works by women and artists of color. Prior to the Harn Museum, Powers was the assistant curator at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art where she organized the museum’s first exhibition spotlighting a Native artist, Dyani White Hawk: Speaking to Relatives, commissioned a large-scale atrium installation by Joiri Minaya, as well as nearly a dozen permanent and traveling exhibitions.
Powers has been a visiting critic at Washington University St. Louis, University of Kansas, and the Kansas City Art Institute, the visiting lecturer in the graduate studio art department at the University of Kansas (2020-2021), and a juror for several artist awards. She was also a member of the inaugural class of the Association of Art Museum Curators’ Professional Alliance for Curators of Color. She has been a featured writer in several catalogues including 2019 Charlotte Street Visual Artists Awards (2019), Dyani White-Hawk: Speaking to Relatives (2021), The Regional (2021), and Lamerol A. Gatewood (2021).
Featured Artist of 46th Montgomery Art Guild Museum Exhibition
Meet Winfred Hawkins
Winfred Hawkins started drawing at an early age. He developed his drafting skills by watching his father and copying animals from nature books. “I was basically a copying machine. I would draw just about anything you put in front of me.”
While in high school, he was commissioned by the Troy University Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama to design 10 bronze roundels for the outside of the museum. He completed the project after graduating from Savannah College of Art and Design. Winfred has been working as a graphic designer since 2007.
After suffering from a nerve injury in 2012, affecting both arms, he has considerably changed his style to incorporate the use of both hands. Winfred mostly uses his non-dominant, right hand, for sketching, but sometimes paints an entire work. The left hand he reserves for work that is more involved, in style, as well as subject matter. With this technique, Winfred creates original characters, incorporating them into his own unique mythology and art style.
Above: Winfred Hawkins, courtesy of the artist
Organizer
Organized by the Montgomery Art Guild and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
Sponsors
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