Come join us at the end of each term for our one-hour art challenge!

Winter/Spring= May     Summer= September      Fall= January

One hour.  12 Artists.  Crowd chosen winners! 

FREE DONUTS AND COFFEE!

Prizes!

RULES: 

• Bring your own supplies.  16 x 20 stretched canvases will be provided ( courtesy of our sponsor Blick art materials). You are welcome to bring in your own paper for watercolor or pastel work.  All substrates must be entirely free of any marks, sketches, stains, etc.   You are welcome to pre-gesso a canvas as long as it remains pure white with no other marks.  
• any methods are allowed besides spraying, pouring, flinging, or other potentially damaging methods of using materials that might dirty the gallery space, floors, or art being displayed on the walls or cause too many aromatic fumes to saturate the space.  (collage, oils, acrylics, pastels, charcoal, pencils, pens, markers, inks, watercolors, are all fine!).  If you use aromatic fluids to clean or thin your paint please keep it in a sealable container, with a lid over the fluids, when not in immediate use to reduce fumes.
• Participating artists' work must remain in the room for the entirety of the hour. 
• All artists are given one full hour to complete their artwork and must drop all brushes, pencils, and/or pastels when prompted to.  
• Artists are given the option to auction their finished pieces directly after the competition (MCAC earns 30% of all sales to go towards future events)  You do not have to auction your work.
• The audience will then vote for their three favorite artists (one vote per competitor- spread the love)
• Prizes are awarded to the top 3 artists with the most votes!  Ties are broken by curator and Director votes.  In the event that first or second place ties the tie breaking vote will establish the winner and the remaining placements will all shift down (eg. Two people tie for 1st place: one will be awarded 1st and the second becomes 2nd place.  The artist that was previously 2nd place moves down to 3rd.)

VIEWERS VOTE!

(votes are numbered and must be used one per unique contestant. Duplicate votes per contestant will be counted as one total vote. (eg. if that number appears multiple times within the same artists bowl all multiples will be ignored and one vote will be allotted to that artist. Please vote for a different artist with each vote!)

Donations go towards prizes, and funding future art challenges.  

Your generosity is appreciated!

Participation is FREE!

PAST EVENTS:

1st Challenge-  May 25th 2024, PROMPT: Landscapes, open medium, 16x20

Winners:  1st Place: Deana Moore Schoolcraft

2nd Place: Jenni Bateman, 3rd Place: Doug johnson

2nd Challenge - Sept 21st 2024,  PROMPT: Open subject, open medium, 16x20 

Winners:  1st Place: Allyson Frink

2nd Place: Dale Evans, 3rd Place: Becky Altic

3rd Challenge - Jan 18th 2025,  PROMPT: To Be Announced on Jan. 2nd!