Artist Submissions
The Breath & The Clay 2025
Art Exhibition
with Juror Craig Hawkins
Each year as part of our annual creative arts gathering, The Breath and The Clay hosts an interactive art gallery for artists of all backgrounds and mediums. We believe that your art contains the ability to change lives, inspire generations and foster deep, spiritual encounters. See the details below and submit your works for consideration for this year’s event.
-Entry Deadline: Friday, February 16, 2024 by 11:59 PM.
-Notification of Juror Results: Monday, February 24, no later than 7 p.m.
-Exhibition dates (Conference Dates): March 21-23, 2025
-Entry Fee: $25 (Entry fee includes submission of 3 pieces)
All media are eligible, including but not limited to: painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, drawing, fiber, installation, and sculpture. Video and sound work will require the artist to send/bring their own equipment for display. Work that includes sound will be displayed at a volume appropriate for the gallery, as decided by The Breath and The Clay staff. There are no size restrictions for this exhibition. This exhibition will be held physically and will also be represented as an online gallery at www.thebreathandtheclay.com/bc25gallery
About The Juror
Craig Hawkins serves as Professor of Art/Drawing, Painting, and Foundations at VSU. He earned his B.F.A. from Valdosta State University. While at VSU, he spent a semester studying in Newcastle, England. He continued his studies at the University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, where he earned an M.F.A in Drawing and Painting.
Craig has exhibited and published his work both nationally and internationally, and has participated in numerous group, solo, juried, and curated exhibitions across the nation and overseas including the national juried exhibition 2023 Contemporary Art Survey at the Lincoln Center in Colorado, Emmaus Road by Craig Hawkins, a solo show at Square Halo Gallery in Pennsylvania, Craig Hawkins, a solo show at the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Art in Florida, inclusion in New American Paintings, No. 160, South, inclusion in Juxtapoz Magazine n132 along with published work in Every Moment Holy Volume III by Douglas Kaine McKelvey, Rabbit Room Press, 2023, and Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations of Art, Faith, and Mystery by Gregory Wolfe, Square Halo Books, 2018. Mason Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA has represented his work since 2007 and Anne Neilson Fine Art, Charlotte, NC represented his work from 2014 – 2021.
