Eligibility
The Darrell Williams Memorial Photography Competition and Exhibition is open to all photographers living in Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, or Nebraska. All Works must be original and not previously shown at the Carnegie Center. No substitution, exchange, modification or withdrawal of works is permitted after the works have been received.
Categories and Specifications
Black and white prints, color prints, photo silk screens, and alternative photographic processes are acceptable. Entries must be framed, with photo wires for hanging and be ready to hang. Entries not ready to hang will not be displayed. DCAAC takes no responsibility for glass.
Awards
Best of show...........................................$125
First Place (Color)..................................$100
Second Place (Color)................................$75
First Place (Black and White)..................$100
Second Place (Black and White)................$75
Special Awards
Jess and Juliet Denious Award...................$75
(sponsored by family members)
Darrell Williams Memorial Award...............$75
(sponsored by High Plains Publishers)
General Entry Fee
The general entry fee is $15 for the first two pieces. All pieces thereafter will be $5 each, with a limit of four works per artist. Please make check payable to Dodge City Area Arts Council. Entry fees are non-refundable.
Student Display (non-competitive)
Works will be accepted from area elementary, middle and high school students, with a limit of four works per artist. No entry fee is required and works are not eligible for cash rewards. Ribbons will be awarded. Entries may be dry-mounted or matted rather than framed, but must be ready to hang.
Delivery and Return
All works are to arrive by April 21, 2007. Hand-delivered work may be dropped off during the Carnegie Center's regular hours(Noon-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, and 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Saturday). If work must be delivered during non-open hours, contact Carnegie Center staff to make arrangements. Identification tags must be on the backs of all works. If the work is for sale, the price must include 30 percent Dodge City Area Arts Council commision in the selling price. All entries not picked up by June 16, 2007 will be repacked in original carton and shipped C.O.D. by UPS. Return shipment will be insured for purchase price unless otherwise stated.
Liability
Every precaution is taken to protect all photographs; however, works are submitted at the artist's risk. The DCAAC or the sponsors will assume no responsibility for loss or damage during the Exhibition.
The juror for this year's Darrell Williams Memorial Photography Contest and Exhibition is Stephen Workman. He is an associate professor of art at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, where he is the current chair of the Art Department and the former chair of the Mass Communications Department. His photographic career began more than 35 years ago at Emporia State University, where he sold his first news photograph to United Press International: a shot of actor Buster Crabbe, better known as Tarzan, who was visiting campus. Workman went on to work as a newspaper and television photojournalist in Kansas and Tennessee.
After leaving jounalism, he operated a studio in Atchison, where he photographed everything from portraits to aerials and commercial work to industrial video. He later returned to college, enrolling in graduate school at Fort Hays State University where he earned an M.F.A in art in 1997. Since then, he has taught visual communication, photography, print making, graphic design and video production for Benedictine College. He has received numerous awards for his photography and etchings from regional, national and international competitions.
Currently, he is working with a group of students on a Discovery Project that involves pinhole cameras ranging in size from an Altoid tin to a refrigerator box.
Workman will lead a workshop for interested photographers Saturday, April 28 from 9:00 a.m. to around 3:00 p.m. To register for the workshop call the Carnegie Center, 620-225-6388, Greg Nelson, 620-338-0232.
