The Florence Regional Arts Alliance invites submissions to its Small Works Juried Exhibition and Competition. This competition is open to 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional artists working in all mediums in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia, ages 18 and older. Final artwork may not be larger than 12” x 12” x 12” in order to be considered.

Entering its ninth year, the Florence Regional Arts Alliance is pleased to partner with ArtFields at Acline Studios located in Lake City, SC as its host venue for 2025. Three cash prizes will be awarded: First Place $600, Second Place $350, Third Place $250 and Honorable Mention. Submissions must be submitted through the Florence Regional Arts Alliance’s website by 12 midnight on June 23, 2025. The Small Works exhibition and awards will be juried by acclaimed artist Michaela Pilar - Brown. The Small Works exhibition will be on display at Acline Studios August 1 through September 20 with an opening reception on August 1. Competition winners will be announced at the opening.

About the Juror

Michaela Pilar Brown is an image and object maker. She studied sculpture and art history at Howard University, though she has always been a maker of things. Born in Bangor, Maine and raised in Denver, Colorado, she cut her teeth in the halls of a museum where her mother worked as a security guard, and has been immersed in the culture of objects, their making and interpretation ever since.Brown is an independent curator and multidisciplinary artist using photography, installation, collage, painting and performance. Brown in a 2024 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellow. She is the 2018 grand prize winner of Artfields juried art competition. She is a 2018 inaugural resident artist of the Volcanic Residency, Whakatane Museum, Whakatane, New Zealand. She was one of the six American artists selected to participate as a Resident Artist for OPEN IMMERSION: A VR CREATIVE DOC LAB produced by the CFC Media Lab, The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and JustFilms | Ford Foundation in Toronto, Canada, an Inaugural Resident Artist at the 2016 Sedona Summer Colony and a 2016 Artist in Residence, Kunstlerwerkgemeinschaft Kaiserslautern, Germany.Brown has been a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center and the McColl Center for Art and Innovation. Her work can be found in private and public museum collections in the United States. She is the former Executive Director of 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, South Carolina., where she has served since 2020-2022. She has served on the board of directors for One Columbia SC, One Columbia for Arts & History is a non-profit organization formed to support and promote tourism in Columbia, South Carolina, and the Barabara Deming Memorial Fund, the oldest ongoing feminist granting agency. She is the owner/director of Mike Brown Contemporary Art Gallery formerly If ART. 

ArtFields Acline Studios is the community hub for artistic conversation and creativity. In addition to its gallery space, Acline Studios houses 9 studios and a shared ourdoor workspace. It aims to serve the ArtFields artist community and provide year-round programming. Acline Studios is located at 132 North Acline Street in downtown Lake City, South Carolina.

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