USCB's "Emerging Artists" Competition Recognizes Top High School Artists
The South Carolina Lowcountry is home to talented young artists and USCB seeks them out. Each year, the University of South Carolina Beaufort conducts its Emerging Artists Competition at the Center for the Arts on the Beaufort Campus. The USCB Emerging Artist Competition is a juried exhibition initiated by the Studio Arts Program of USCB in 2010 to support and showcase exemplary artistic achievements of area high school students.
High school juniors and seniors from public and private secondary schools throughout South Carolina and neighboring counties in Georgia and North Carolina submitted works of art for consideration by a panel of judges drawn from the university’s faculty in the Studio Art program. The works represented painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, ceramics and media arts.
On the day of the awards ceremony, young artists come to USCB, attend the ceremony, tour the campus and participate in workshops at the university’s ceramics and media arts studios. This year, the ceremony was accompanied by a live piano performance.
The Emerging Arts program is USCB's attempt to encouraging high school artists to pursue the arts and is a recruiting opportunity for the university. It showcases USCB's Studio Art degree program and arts scholarship funds. It is supported by the South Carolina Arts Commission. For more information contact Dr. Joanna Angell.
The 2023 Emerging Artists Awards ceremony took place at USCB’s Center for the Arts
in Beaufort.