17th Annual East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition
presented by the Knoxville Museum of Art
The ETRSAE showcases the strength and diversity of art education programs in East Tennessee, celebrates talented middle and high school students, and supports arts education. This annual exhibition provides the opportunity for students to participate in a juried exhibition and to have their artworks displayed in a professional art museum environment. We are so delighted by the quality of the artworks, the dedication of the teachers, and the commitment of the museum staff to establish a museum/school tradition for our community.
Public, private, and home schools grades 6–12 in 32 East Tennessee counties were invited to submit up to 15 artworks per teacher. Categories for the competition include ceramic, drawing, digital imagery/video production, mixed media, painting, computer graphics, sculpture, photography, and printmaking. Each participating school is represented by one work of art.
The Best-in-Show winner receives a Purchase Award of $500, and the artwork becomes a permanent part of the collection of Mr. James Dodson, on loan to the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Education Collection. The Best-in-Middle School winner receives $250. The teachers of the winning student will receive $100. Each student in the exhibition receives a certificate of participation and the “Best” in each of the 10 categories the winners receive a museum family membership.
Regrettably, the museum has no extra storage space, and therefore any artwork not picked up by Sunday, January 15, 2023, by 4:45pm, will be removed on the following Tuesday. Please make arrangements with fellow instructors to pick-up all artwork, or contact the museum for special pickup time to avoid any problems.
Pick-up dates after the exhibition closes:
Thursday, January 12, 2023 10:30am 4:45pm
Friday, January 13, 2023 10:30am–4:45pm
Saturday, January 14, 2023 10:30am–4:45pm
Sunday, January 15, 2023 1:00–4:45pm
This project is supported, in whole or in part, by the federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.