Enter the 2024 61st SWS Annual Membership Exhibition

(before time runs out!)

 

The Call for Entries for the annual membership exhibition of the Southwestern Watercolor Society opened on May 1, 2024 and will close on June 30, 2024. SWS is known as one of the premier regional watercolor societies in the United States. Watercolor painters from all over the country enter the competition for the opportunity to exhibit work and be selected for one of the coveted monetary awards.

This year’s exhibition will be selected and judged by acclaimed watercolor painter, Fealing Lin, NWS, https://www.fealingwater.com. After the call for entries closes, Ms. Lin will choose around eighty paintings to exhibit. Those paintings will be delivered to the Lillian Bradshaw Gallery at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX 75201 according to the schedule and directions in the prospectus. The exhibition will be open from September 3rd though September 27^th. There will be a slide show of all the entries on Sunday, July 14^th from 1:00 – 3:00 pm. The Awards reception will be Sunday, September 22nd from 1:00 to 3:00 pm.

Here is the exhibition schedule:

Registration Opens: Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Registration Closes: Sunday, June 30, 2024, 11:59 p.m. 

Preview Party:                          Sunday July 14, 2014, 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Acceptances Sent: Monday,  July 15, 2024

Shipped Art Due: Received August 1 and Before August 20, 2024

Paintings Drop-Off: Sunday, August 25, 2024, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Exhibition Opens: Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Awards Judging: Monday, September 9, 2024

Awards Reception: Sunday, September 22, 2024, 1:00-3:00 p.m 

Exhibition Closes: Friday, September 27, 2024, 5:00 p.m. 

Art Pick-Up: Sunday, September 29, 2024, 1:00-3:00 p.m. 

Shipped Art Mailed: Tuesday, October 1, 2024

To see the full 2024 Prospectus, please click HERE.

Entries will be accepted on the CaFÉ website. To enter, please go HERE.

 

Two SWS Members Earn Awards at 2024 Western Federation of Watercolor Societies Exhibit

 

Western Federation of Watercolor Societies Delegate for SWS, Gail Delger, and Alternate Delegate Dana Brock have returned from the successful Exhibition Gala Dance and Dinner and Awards presentation on April 20^th in Phoenix, Arizona. The show was in the Found:RE Hotel in downtown Phoenix. One of the most notable features of the venue was the larger than life nude poster of Burt Reynolds from the 1972 Cosmopolitan Magazine centerfold on the wall behind the check-in desk. You can see it for yourself on their website,  Foundrehotels.com.

 

The boutique hotel includes original artworks in the rooms and in all the hallways. The WFWS Show hung in two large rooms as you enter the hotel and it looked amazing. On Friday, all the delegates and alternates from the ten societies met for their yearly meeting to discuss the current show and the details of next years’ show. In the morning they discussed Western Fed By-Laws, future jurors and other topics that affect the societies. In the afternoon they shared ideas with each other about what each society is currently doing.

 

On Saturday evening the Awards Gala was in the dining room where the paintings were hung. It was designed to share the meal with artists and delegates surrounded by all of the accepted watercolor paintings on the walls. Two SWS members received awards, Ginny Hoppe won a Merchandise Award and Cheryl Baron won the 2^nd Place Award of Excellence. Congratulations to both of them. To see all of the 2024 WFWS Exhibition winners, go HERE.

 

Next years’ show will be the 50^th Anniversary of WFWS and will be in Lubbock, Texas.  Hope to see you there. The prospectus will be available online on August 26, 2024.