The Peach Belt Conference has announced the winners of the annual Art Exhibition and released the catalog.
The Art Exhibtion is split into a General category and a Campus Spirit category.
Please be aware that art is subjective, and as such, some of the images/wording included may be considered graphic, inappropriate or offensive to some. The views and opinions expressed in these works are soley those of the original artists and do not represent those of the Peach Belt Conference or any of its member institutions.
Please view at your own discretion and risk.
For the 11th year in a row, the PBC will present the exhibtion digitally. In response to changes in the timing of the determination of the host sites for the basketball tournament, the Art Exhibition has become a 'virtual' exhibition. Accordingly, each institution in the Peach Belt Conference was invited to submit digital images of 2 or 3 dimensional artwork completed by their students and faculty.In addition, all submitted images of artworks will be shown via a slideshow presentation at the sites of the 2024 Peach Belt Conference Basketball Tournament Championships.
The winners of this year's PBC Art Exhibtion are:
First Place
Natalie Bourgeois, North Georgia
"Ordered Organics"
Chalk Pastel on Paper
Second Place
Taylor Lawson, Augusta
"Earl Dante"
AutoDesk Maya and Adobe Substantial Painter
Third Place
Sydney Knight, Flagler
"Beyond the Shadows"
Monotype
Winners of the Campus Spirit category are:
First Place
Amber Whetstone, Lander
"Pablo the Pickle"
Steel, Cardboard, Glue, Paint, Resin
Second Place
Liz Elliott, Columbus State
"Ma Rainey's Musical Mind"
Digital Illusion
Third Place
MG Morrow, Lander
"Silviu"
Steel
Art Exhibition Judge: Chuck Hemard
Chuck Hemard has taught photography in the studio art programs at Auburn University in Alabama for the past 16 years. He is currently serving as the chair of the Department of Art and Art History. Hemard’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Southeastern Museum of Photography in Daytona, FL and the Whitney Center for the Arts in Sheridan, WY. His work is in public collections throughout the south including the Ogden Museum of Art in New Orleans, the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, GA, and the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel, MS. His monograph, The Pines: Southern Forests was published in 2018 by Daylight Books, and this work has been featured online in Smithsonian Magazine, Hyperalleric, and Garden and Gun.