About ArtFields
In 2013, Lake City, SC engaged in an experiment to revitalize the town by using the arts to attract tourists. Since its inception, the ArtFields Collective has awarded 111 prizes to 98 artists from 12 Southern states. The ArtFields art competition celebrate Southern art and draws thousands of visitors from throughout the Southeast and beyond during its 10-day run. Artworks exhibited in a combination of traditional gallery spaces, businesses, local non-profits, and outdoor spaces transform Lake City into a vibrant creative environment. Throughout the year, ArtFields manages rotating exhibitions in Jones-Carter Gallery, TRAX Visual Art Center, and Crossroads Gallery, along with a robust public art program and youth arts programming. For more information, visit www.artfieldssc.org.
About South Arts
South Arts advances Southern vitality through the arts. The nonprofit regional arts organization was founded in 1975 to build on the South’s unique heritage and enhance the public value of the arts. South Arts’ work responds to the arts environment and cultural trends with a regional perspective. South Arts offers an annual portfolio of activities designed to support the success of artists and arts providers in the South, address the needs of Southern communities through impactful arts-based programs, and celebrate the excellence, innovation, value and power of the arts of the South. For more information, visit www.southarts.org.
This exhibition is proudly supported by:
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Jones-Carter Gallery Sponsor
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Crossroads Gallery Sponsor
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General Supporter
Meet the Curators
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Co-Curator
Amalia K. Amaki is an artist, art historian, curator and writer. She holds the Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Georgia State University, Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography from the University of New Mexico, and the Master of Arts degree and Doctor of Philosophy in Modern European and American Art and Culture from Emory University, where she completed a Foreign Study Fellowship in France.
Dr. Amaki has taught art history at Spelman College, Morehouse College and the University of North Georgia; and, art history and visual studies at the University of Delaware and the University of Alabama. She was Scholar-In-Residence at Student Art Centers International (SACI) in Florence, Italy in 2004, and has consulted on exhibition projects with the Robert W. Woodruff Library in the Atlanta University Center, Birmingham Museum of Art, Carlos Museum of Art, Gilcrease Museum, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Marietta-Cobb Museum of Art, and the Historically Black College and University Museum and Gallery Alliance. As a curator, Dr. Amaki has organized more the twenty museum and gallery exhibitions.
Her publications include: A Century of African American Art: The Paul R. Jones Collection; Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, and the Academy; African American Folk Art in Kentucky; three books with Arcadia Publishers, two on Tuscaloosa, and one on Tuskegee in Alabama; and, numerous chapters and essays to texts on American art topics for books and exhibition catalogs.
She has lectured extensively, most notably at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York University, National Museum of Art, Hunter Museum, Atlanta History Center, and High Museum of Art.
As an artist, her more than thirty solo shows include a retrospective held at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC and the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. In addition to the U.S., her work has been shown in Paris, London, Florence, Montreal, Hong Kong and various African and South American cities. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and Christi Award recipient, she has won art commissions from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (2), the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Committee, U.S. General Services Administration, the Coca Cola Company, Seagram’s Gin, Absolut Vodka, Miller Brewing Company and the High Museum of Art, among others.
Her artwork is in the permanent collections of several museums, a few being the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Minnesota Museum of Art, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Mead Museum, Georgia Museum of Art, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art in Georgia.
Her service includes work on numerous art museum and gallery boards, grant panels and art advisory committees.
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Co-Curator
Eleanor Heartney is a curator, cultural writer, lecturer and critic with a long association with South Carolina and with the field of Southern Art. In 2003, she curated Thresholds: Expressions of Art and Spiritual Life, which opened at the Waterfront Gallery and various sacred spaces in Charleston, and also toured the South for several years. In 2013, she curated Contemporary Conversations, a traveling exhibition of work from the South Carolina State Art Collection and in 2017 the South Carolina Visual Arts and Crafts Fellowship Retrospective. In 2018, Heartney served as a judge for ArtFields 2018, a competition for artists residing in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Heartney was also a juror for the 2001 Louisiana Open in New Orleans, the 2004 LaGrange Biennial in LaGrange Georgia and the 2009 Southern Open in Lafayette, LA. In addition, she authored a major essay for the award-winning catalog for the 2019 show Southbound at the Halsey Institute at the College of Charleston.
Eleanor Heartney is a contributing editor for Art in America and Artpress and has written extensively for other publications including Artnews, The New Art Examiner, the Washington Post, and The New York Times. She is author of many noteworthy books including Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads, Art and Today, Postmodernism, Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art and Doomsday Dreams: the Apocalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Art. She is co-author of the award winning books After the Revolution: Women who Transformed Contemporary Art and The Reckoning: Women Artists in the New Millennium.
The recipient of the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism, Heartney is also a past President of AICA-USA, the American section of the International Art Critics Association. In 2008 she was honored by the French government as a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Heartney has lectured extensively at universities and institutions in America and abroad. These include Dartmouth College, Skidmore College, Middlebury College, Massachusetts College of Art, Taipei Cultural Center, Korean University, the Public Art Fund of New York City, the Whitney Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. She has taught at RISD, Bard College, Tyler School of Art, the Parsons School of Design, Montclair State University, the University of New Mexico and Hunter College in New York.
A Pastiche Of Good Intentions (detail) by Lori Larusso
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Join the ranks of artists whose lives have been changed by applying at each organizations respective website.
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This exhibition will be on display September 23rd to December 3rd. You can visit each week Tuesday - Saturday from 11AM to 5PM.
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All artists who had won prizes at ArtFields or had been a South Arts State Fellow were eligible to be selected by our curators, Amalia Amaki and Eleanor Heartney, for this exhibition.