Drawing Works 2025-26
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DRAWING WORKS 2025-26: Call for Entries
Overview:
SCAD Savannah seeks submissions from undergraduate students studying across an array of discipline and majors. The exhibition spotlights traditional and unconventional approaches to mark-making, innovative techniques in varied media, and the finished work and process sketches utilized in design.
Students are encouraged to submit 1 to 3 entries of drawings or sketches, using any combination of analog, digital, and/or unconventional drawing methods. Works selected for the exhibition will be reviewed for Best in Show winner and other award categories by an invited guest juror for a chance to receive prizes with up to $1,000 in value. Undergraduate students from all SCAD majors who are based at the Savannah campus are eligible to submit.
Submission Deadline: Sunday, September 21, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ET
Notification of acceptance: Week of September 29, 2025
Exhibition: November 7, 2025 – February 1, 2026, Alexander Hall Gallery
Email SCAD MOA curator Haley Clouser at hclouser@scad.edu or Professor Raymond Gaddy at rwgaddy@scad.edu for any questions or more information.
Award Categories
- Best In Show: $1000 valued prize
Awarded to outstanding and inventive contemporary aesthetic, conceptual qualities, composition and media techniques, fully expresses the unique attributes of drawing.
- Process Award: $500 valued prize
Demonstrates exploration into concept and composition using preparatory sketch methods to inform and support research and development processes.
- Explorative Play Award: $500 valued prize
Experiments creatively with traditional and/or nontraditional drawing media, expressive mark making, and gestural approaches.
- Composition Award: $500 valued prize
Displays exemplary drawing abilities in the production of a fully realized finished work.
Submission Requirements
- Must be a current undergraduate student enrolled in any major/minor at the Savannah location.
- Works must be created anytime during enrollment at SCAD.
- Submit 1 - 3 images by 11:59pm ET, Sunday, September 21, 2025. More than 3 will not be considered.
- Jury is seeking drawings and sketches, using any combination of analog, digital and/ or unconventional drawing methods. Diverse drawing practices are encouraged, showing traditional and unconventional use of media, experimentation, aesthetic expressions, styles and formats, including but not limited to sketchbooks, drawings intended for digital display, illustrations, fine art drawings, storyboards, prints, conceptual and process sketches and technical working drawings and 3D drawings.
- AI tools may be used to spark ideas or refine details, but they must be credited and must not replace your own creative work. Uncredited or excessive AI input violates SCAD’s academic-integrity standards.
How to enter:
1. Upload 1 – 3 works for consideration with the following information: Title of work, Medium, Dimensions (2D works: H x W or 3D works H x W x D), Artist Price, Is this work intended for digital display? If yes, explain.
2. If you would like to have more than one work considered, please submit each work as its own separate entry.
**If your work is accepted for exhibition, you must abide by the following requirements and timeline:
· Students are responsible for framing of accepted work. All accepted physical drawings or digital prints must be professionally framed and ready to hang prior to drop off/delivery. Ready to hang includes wiring or D rings.
· Digital prints must be high quality and color corrected from RGB to CMYK.
· Digital works will be displayed on an LCD screen and must be formatted for optimal viewing. Email accepted digital works to Haley Clouser at hclouser@scad.edu by Wed., October 15th.
· If actual work differs from submitted images, it may be rejected from exhibition.