Juried Fine Art Show
Adult & Youth Categories!
Located at The Abingdon Arts Depot
July 24 - August 2, 2026
Daily 10am to 5pm, Sundays 1pm-5pm
Did you spend the past year creating new art in any 2-D medium?
We have a space to share it with the world!
Mark your calendar for Art Intake at The Arts Depot:
Saturday, July 18/Sunday, July 19, 2026: 2-5pm
Opening Reception Friday, July 24, 2026
Patrons Exclusive Preview & Reception, 4:30-5:15pm. Public viewing begins at 5:15pm.
Juror’s Remarks at 5:30pm
Check Out Winners from 2025:
Jeff Chapman-Crane, Gravedigger, Egg Tempera
Peoples’ Choice Award, 2025
Best in Show
Annamarie Buchanan, The Birds and the Bees, graphite on paper
1st Place
Richard Shrewsbury, There was a Crooked Girl, ceramic, found objects
2nd Place
Shawn C. Whiteside, Fading Future, acrylic
3rd Place
Ken Johnson, EFFNA-Big Walker North, oil
Honorable Mention
Carole Ferris Blevins, Gotic, watercolor
Greg Howser, Birds and the Bees, watercolor
Youth Awards
1st Place
Emma Lawson, Slice of Still Life, watercolor
2nd Place
Olivia Jackson, The Sketchy Snake, pencil
3rd Place
Joshua Bond, Blackburnian Warbler, watercolor
Honorable Mention
Congatulations to This Year’s Winners!
Charlotte Sullivan, Me, watercolor
2026 are in the planning stages…check out the fun from 2025!
Monotype Workshop with Professor Emeritus, Charles Goolsby (scroll for more info)
Meet our 2025 Juror: Charles W. Goolsby
Charles W. Goolsby, Professor Emeritus of Art at Emory & Henry College and former Chair of the Division of Visual & Performing Arts, has been a practicing professional artist for more than forty years. He held the Allen & Agnes Rowlett Chair of Creative Studies from 2015-2018. He earned his B.F.A. in Art from Radford University in 1980 and the M.F.A. in Art from James Madison University in 1994. Goolsby’s work has been featured in more than 45 solo exhibitions throughout the southeastern United States at various college, university, fine arts center, museum and commercial galleries. Blue Spiral I Gallery, in Asheville, North Carolina represents him.
Marathon, oil on canvas, 60” x 72”, 2020
Monotype Workshop with Charles W. Goolsby
Two Day Workshop, July 29 & 30, 9am to Noon at William King Museum of Art Lab
Monotyping is a type of printmaking made by drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface. The surface, or matrix, was historically a copper etching plate, but in contemporary work it can vary from zinc or glass to acrylic glass. The image is then transferred onto a paper by pressing the two together, using a printing-press, brayer, barenor by techniques such as rubbing with the back of a wooden spoon or the fingers which allow pressure to be controlled selectively.
“Monotype combines the immediacy of painting with the graphic character of printmaking. First, I paint my image onto a printmaking plate that has not been engraved or etched. Once I finish the painted image, I transfer the image from the plate to paper using an etching press. The resulting image is a one-of-a- kind print. This medium allows me to experiment quickly with a variety of ideas. I explore etching plates as physical objects with the intention of the printed images functioning as liminal ports.” —Charles W. Goolsby
Fort Loudoun Dam, monotype, 18” x 24”, 2013