2021 MOJA Arts Festival Juried Art Exhibition

This annual juried art exhibition highlights the recent work of artists across South Carolina featuring painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and photography. Artworks receiving prizes are presented alongside a limited selection of pieces identified by the juror as meriting display. This year’s juror is Andrea Hazel.

Hazel was born in Charleston, SC where she still resides. After years of teaching and running her own business, Andrea Hazel Photography, she began painting in 2001 and has been immersed in watercolors ever since. Her latest series entitled “How It Was…Charleston in 1963,” depicts scenes of homes and communities that have been demolished and displaced in the wake of Charleston’s rapid growth and development. “The idea was not to point a finger and blame, but to show what happened, and to remember these places,” she has said. Hazel is a member of the Southern Watercolor Society, the South Carolina Watermedia Society, and the Charleston Artist Guild. Her work is currently on view at the Charleston Artist Guild Gallery.

Invited artists for this year’s exhibition include: Kelly Atkinson, Kelvin Blufton, Maxine Brown, Julie Byrd Diana, Andrea Capers, Alfred Casciato, Jeleata Nicole Davis, Sonny Dugal, Lynda English, Kerri Forrest, LySandra Gathers, Rosemary Giusti Dillon, Alvin Glen, Bob Graham, Raven Greene, Malik Hayward, Katie Heatley, Shannon Hopkins, Ann Igoe, Lori Isom, Caseline Jenkins, Anne M. Jennings, Christine Johnson, Rachel Jones, Christopher Kyle, Cynthia Male, Robert Maniscalco, Ervin McDaniel, Harry McFadden, Zaire McPhearson, Robert B. Reed, Addelle Sanders, Gloria Smith, Stuart Tessler, La Toya Thompson, Simone Voelker, and Marvin Youngblood.