The LaGrange Southeast Regional traces its roots to the LaGrange National Competition which began in 1964 when a competitive show known as the Gardens Art Festival was organized and sponsored by the Chattahoochee Valley Art Association, LaGrange College and Callaway Gardens. In 1974, the competition was moved to LaGrange, took the name LaGrange National, and was expanded from a regional to a national show. In 1984, the competition expanded again and displayed in two locations, with the Chattahoochee Valley Art Association Museum and the Lamar Dodd Art Center, of LaGrange College.
Over the years, the LaGrange National earned an excellent reputation numerous distinguished jurors including Lloyd Goodrich, Richard Lahey, Carl Holty, Joseph Rishel, Larry Poons, Jane Livingston, Cynthia McCabe, Linda Cathcart, Ted Potter, Roy Slade, Henry Hopkins, Patterson Sims, Peter Mirin, Siri Engberg, Benny Andrews, Robert Lyon, Jane Jackson, Eleanor Heartney, J. Richard Gruber, Robert E. Steele, Annette Cone-Skelton, Deanna Sirlin, David Houston, Curlee Raven Holton and Daricia Mia DeMarr.
The LaGrange Southeast Regional provides the citizens of West Georgia and East Alabama access to current artistic practice; offers artists exhibition opportunities and purchase possibilities; and affords the LaGrange Art Museum and the Lamar Dodd Art Center a means for the development of significant collections of contemporary American art. Both organizations have been extremely fortunate to have generous support from the Callaway Foundation of LaGrange who has provided purchase award funds to further their growing collections.
Juror Daricia Mia DeMarr
Daricia Mia DeMarr is from Los Angeles, California. She launched her collegiate career at Clark Atlanta University but received a BA in Art History from Georgia State University and master’s degree in Visual Arts Administration from New York University. She is an arts enthusiast, ideas fanatic, curator and visual arts consultant.
In 2015 she was invited to curate a special exhibition, ‘Respectfully Yours,’ at the Queens Museum, Bulova Center with renowned street artist Lady Pink. Daricia Mia was the Assistant Director at the NYU Kimmel Center Galleries organizing and curating over 100 exhibitions in six years, and has been a member of the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Art Program team.
She is the founder of Pi Arts Projects LLC, a visual arts consultancy providing a variety of services, from collection management to art programming development. DeMarr is currently gallery manager at Peg Alston Fine Arts in NYC. She is also the co-founder of Black Women in Visual Art, a social and professional development platform for Black Women working in visual art spaces.
AWARDS
Purchase Awards Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange College:
Brandon Dudley, I AM A MAN, Oil on canvas, 2021 Kinston, NC
Kariann Fuqua, Permeate, Graphite, ink, and digital print on paper, 2021 Oxford, MS
Nick Gruenberg, Schoolhouse and Cotton, Chambers County, Alabama, Photograph, 2021, Atlanta, GA
Keith Maltbey, Old Storefront in the Country, 4×5 Large format black and white photograph, 2021, Newnan, GA
Sarah Swanson, Vintage Switches & Stereoviews, Looking Like a Robot’s Head, Colored pencil and ink, 2021, Hogansville, GA
Purchase Awards LaGrange Art Museum:
Liza Butts, Veils, 04, Monoprint with fabric on BFK Rives, 2021, Birmingham, AL
Martin Chamberlin, Ball for Rolling, Plywood, casters, 2019, Athens, GA
Isabella Losskarn, Will You Cut That Up For Her, Soft pastel and pastel pencil, 2021, Asheville, NC
Aldo Muzzarelli, Unprejudiced and Colorless Rain, Mixed media, 2020, Mauldin, SC
Juror Merit Awards:
Jeffrey Burnley, End of Summer
JoAnn Camp, FULL CIRCLE
Susan Chambers, In the Garden
Steve Close, Rainy Night in Georgia
Dianne Cutler, When Scarlet Smiles: Wisteria
Cynthia Frigon, Looking Beyond
Corinne Galla, Yellow Sofa
Micah Goguen, Distant Memory
Jason Guynes, Plaza Virgen de Gracia
Charles Haynes, Donna’s Yard
Roxane Hollosi, Carried On Her Wings 1
Sooyeon Kim, Silent Treatment ( A Teapot with No Spout)
Stephanie Kolpy, A Solemn Waking
Kate Kosek, You’ve Really Got a Hold On Me
Ann Kozeliski, Tired of It
Leanna Lesley, Ethel Waters
Isabella Losskarn, Will You Cut That Up For Her
Elizabeth Mobley, Spec In The Universe
Dawn Inglis Montgomery, Work Space
Felecia Moore, Hot’s Barber Shop
Kate Hooray Osmond, Obvious Child, SPECTRA #5 (Serotonin)
Michael Sawecki, The Madness of Thomas Bernhard
Sara Schindel, Flying Away
Participating Artists
LaGrange Art Museum
Bryna Bobick
Neal Brantley
Hailey Brooks
Liza Butts
Alberto Carol
Armando Chacon
Arden Cone
Robert Coon
Erin Dixon
Carol Doenecke
Brandon Dudley
Toni Elkins
Sabre Esler
Shirley Fachilla
Kariann Fuqua
Cathy Fussell
Corinne Galla
Becky Guinn
Jason Guynes
Maxine Hess
Roxane Hollosi
Sooyeon Kim
Stephanie Kolpy
Kate Kosek
Marcella Kuykendall
Melinda Lampkin
Leanna Lesley
Isabella Losskarn
Elizabeth McFalls
Lisa McLaughlin
Elizabeth Mobley
Dawn Inglis Montgomery
Felecia Moore
Aldo Muzzarelli
Conrad Ross
Korey Rowswell
Michael Sawecki
Sara Schindel
Candace Hackett Shively
Thomas Swanston
Sandra Teepen
Cora Waterhouse
Gail Wegodsky
Gregory Wilkin
Lamar Dodd Art Center at LaGrange College
Jeffrey Burnley
JoAnn Camp
Martin Chamberlin
Susan Chambers
Steve Close
Dianne Cutler
Abby Edwards
Cynthia Frigon
Cindy Fulks
Nathalie Fuson
Joseph Gargasz
Micah Goguen
Nick Gruenberg
Charles Haynes
Franca Nucci Haynes
Nancy Jane Lee Jones
Ann Kozeliski
Nancy Jeanette Long
Devin Lovett
Keith Maltbey
Matthew Mogle
Kate Hooray Osmond
Terry Page
Andy Porter
Cheryl Sattler
Tommye Scanlin
Laura Smith
Diane Speight
Ashley Stewart
Brenda Sumpter
Sarah Swanson
Kathleen Varadi
John Vollenweider
Cynthia Wagner
Rick Yasko
Marian Zielinski
FOURTH LAGRANGE SOUTHEAST REGIONAL 2022 SCHEDULE
Deadline for entries: January 12, 2022
Acceptance Notifications emailed to artists: January 19, 2022
Deadline for receipt of works: February 7, 2022
Gala receptions at the LaGrange Art Museum and Lamar Dodd Art Center of LaGrange College: February 19, 2022, 6-9 pm
Exhibitions closes: April 16, 2022
All work shipped or picked-up: April 19 –May 3, 2022
Any work not claimed by this date automatically becomes the property of the sponsors: May 18, 2022