2024 Juried Fine Art Student Exhibition
March 18 – 29, 2024
Biggin Gallery’s annual Juried Fine Art Student Exhibition features selected works by current art students, with an awards presentation featuring the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and a distinguished visiting juror. Included works are eligible for numerous awards, including the Dean’s Choice Purchase Award, the Davis-Frye Annual Award in Art, and the Department of Art & Art History Merit Awards.
Exhibition Entry Deadline: 4:30 pm, March 11, 2024
Students enrolled in Fall 2023 and/or Spring 2024 semester ARTS classes in the Department of Art & Art History are invited to enter up to three artworks in the 2024 Juried Fine Art Student Exhibition.
February 29 – March 11, drop off entries in Biggin Gallery 8am–4:45 pm, Monday–Friday. Submit online form and images by 4:30 pm on March 11.
These times are strict, and late entries will NOT be accepted.
Prospectus - Detailed exhibition entry instructions, and the hard copy form to attach to your artwork.
Online Form - Enter the same information you attach to your artwork on the hard copy form.
Image Submission - Upload artwork images.
Juror's Lecture, Presentation of Awards and Reception
When: Monday, March 18, 2024, 5:00-7:00 pm CDT
Where: Juror's Lecture and Presentation of Awards in 005 Biggin Hall; Reception in Biggin Gallery, 101 Biggin Hall
This event is free and open to the public. 005 Biggin Hall and Biggin Gallery are handicap accessible.
About the Juror
Left: John Alleyne; Right: John Alleyne, . . . In a perfect world, I would be perfect, world. 2021, silkscreen on arches 88 paper, 36 x 22 inches. Images courtesy of the artist.
John Alleyne—born in St. Michael, Barbados and living and working in New Orleans, LA— is an artist, independent curator, and Assistant Professor of Art at Southern University and A&M College. His practice and curatorial work are rooted in explorations of freedom and sanctum, connecting his lived experience with an intuitive, experimental process of silkscreen mark-making. These marks reflect the complexities of Black life as they are perfectly imperfect. Through the exploration of Black nostalgic images which already exist in the world, Alleyne reimagines hauntingly new depictions that long for and reflect love, care, and a sanctuary for Black bodies.
He received his MFA from Louisiana State University, with a concentration in painting and drawing. He has been Artist-in-Residence at Ox-Bow, ACRE, and Anderson Ranch Arts Center. He has exhibited work throughout various galleries and museums in the South, including Sulfur Studios in Savannah, GA, The Masur Museum in Monroe, LA, The LSU Museum in Baton Rouge, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and The Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. He has also exhibited work in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Ireland, and Barbados. His work is featured in New American Paintings (South Issue), Southern Cultures, The Chicago Reader, The Shepherd Express, Studio Visit Magazine, 225 Magazine, Savannah Now, and Issue #23 of The Hand Magazine.
Alleyne is an artist member of Baton Rouge Gallery and a member of Antenna Artist Collective in New Orleans. Alleyne has taught experimental silkscreen techniques at Anderson Ranch Arts Center.