ART. COMMUNITY. OPPORTUNITY.
The Durham Art Guild’s mission is to enrich and connect our communities by creating opportunities and providing leadership for current and future visual artists and art enthusiasts.
The Guild is a nonprofit member-driven visual arts organization established in 1948. For over seven decades we have supported local artists and advocated for the arts in our region. Each year, the Durham Art Guild produces:
Over 20 exhibitions across multiple public partnership venues showcasing over 300 regional artists.
Over 40 arts related events including receptions, lectures, community building gatherings and professional development workshops.
The Creative Mentorship Program, which pairs local high school students and professional artists in creative collaboration and exploration.
The Artist in Residence Program, which provides local emerging artists with free studio space and grant $.
The Art@Work Program, which connects local artists to local businesses for paid opportunities and enhances our creative economy.
For more information about the Guild, please visit our website durhamartguild.org. If you have any questions about DAG, the exhibition, or purchasing you can contact us at gallerydirector@durhamartguild.org.
About the MEMBERS' EXTRAVANGANZA:
The Durham Art Guild typically offers two free, non-juried member-centered exhibits each year in SunTrust Gallery, which are the Members’ Showcase in the spring (which couldn’t happen earlier in 2020 due to the pandemic) and the Members’ Holiday Market during the holiday season featuring more affordably priced art (again, couldn't happen in 2020 due to pandemic concerns while local cases were increasing). Each exhibit typically features 75-115 artists. To help keep our community safe during the pandemic and to focus our energies on executing sales of local artwork, we are combining both exhibits into ONE centralized ONLINE exhibition extravaganza. It is important to note that these two member exhibits are also typically DAG's best selling exhibitions, so we want to help ensure that artists and DAG can help regain some of that important lost/delayed revenue to help us keep doing what we all love and need. Artists were given the option to select their commission rate for this exhibit depending on their current circumstances. They could request 50% (a little extra for DAG), 70% (the typical rate), or 80% (a little extra to the artist).
Want to participate?
If you are a local artist or DAG member and you missed the previous call for art, please stay tuned for later in April when we evaluate an update or round two of submissions for this exhibition to help keep it fresh and help support more local artists!