COTTON DISTRICT ARTS FESTIVAL

2008 Juried Art Exhibition
Area artists are welcome to submit artworks for possible inclusion into the annual Juried Art Exhibition. The exhibition is selected and juried each year by the Festival's Distinguished Visiting Artist.

Wyatt Waters is the visiting artist and judge for 2008. Born in Brookhaven, Mississippi, Wyatt Waters creates paintings of the roadside South.  His work is distinguished by bright, saturated colors, and much of his subject matter of Mississippi where he grew up in the small town of Florence. He holds a Masters degree from Mississippi College, The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson and the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel have hosted solo shows of his work. He currently lives in Clinton and has a Gallery there. His work has been featured in numerous magazine articles including American Artists Special Watercolor Issues, Art and Antiques, and Mississippi Magazine. He is the past president and signature member of the Mississippi Watercolor society. Two books on his paintings have been published, and he was chosen to do the commemorative poster for both the Jubilee Jam festival in Jackson and the 1999 Mississippi on the Mall picnic in Washington, D.C.

2008 Juried Art Exhibition Rules
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2008 Juried Art Exhibition Entry Form
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