Welcome to the Artists' Guild of Columbia County

The Guild is a group of professional and amateur artists and patrons of the visual arts located in Columbia County, Georgia. We provide opportunities for artists to exchange creative ideas and business information, to show and sell their work, and to increase their knowledge through workshops. We promote the visual arts, sponsor exhibits and offer projects of interest to artists and those interested in the arts. Membership is open to anyone age 17 or older who is a resident of the Central Savannah River Area.

LATEST NEWS

Next Meeting/Speaker

Tuesday, May 8, 6:30 pm. This will be a potluck picnic at the Columbia County Ampitheater, behind the library. Please bring a dish to share!

Art in the Park

Artists will showcase their talents at Art in the Park 2012, a festival highlighting the visual and performing arts in Columbia County, Saturday, May 5 at the Columbia County Amphitheater, 10 - 5pm.

New Exhibits

May exhibits include Casey Szocinski at Queensborough Bank; Casey Pearson at ASU's Reese Library; and Wenquing Cao at the Government Complex. Lois James will be showing watercolor scenes and abstracts at the Inner Bean starting March 29,2012-May 9,2012.

Check out the Members' Exhibits page to see more upcoming shows.

Scholarship Info

For more information and applications on the Guild's art student scholarship, see here.

Exhibiting Your Art on the Website

Thanks so much to everyone who sent in images for their online galleries! And for those of you who don't know about this feature, one of the many benefits of joining the Artists Guild is that you can display you art here on the website in an online image gallery. It's like having a mini-website of your own where potential customers can view your portfolio.

To start your gallery, just send jpgs of your art to Christina Rice, along with a short bio, and she will add your page. Please name your images with lowercase letters, underlines, numbers or dashes, for example, my_work23.jpg or beach-sunset.jpg. The software displays the images in alphabetical order, but it won't do capital letters - so if your camera names the image 001.JPG, please change it to 001.jpg. You can have up to 25 pictures in your gallery.