Call for ARTISTS – Thomasville Center for the Arts

Due South 2025 
Public Art Exhibition + Competition
Stop & Smell the Roses!
April 3 – May 1, 2025

            CALLING ALL FIBER ARTISTS…

Stop & Smell the Roses!, a public art exhibition + competition in the Creative District, is designed to complement the Center’s Due South 2025 Music, Food, & Art Festival, set to take place on April 5, 2025.  It will be on display during the 104^th Rose Show Festival and will focus on the sights and sounds of Thomasville as we celebrate roses, the symbol of our city.

16 teams of fiber artists (1-2/team) will compete to yarn bomb 16 lampposts along the West Jackson Street corridor by staging a rose-inspired yarn bomb. Each team will create a fiber art sleeve for the lamppost with an embellishment of a fiber art bouquet of roses along with other local flowers – crocheted, knitted, felted, or created with any fiber art medium. We challenge all artists to create something new and modern for this exhibition.

Three awards including Best of Show: $1,000, 1^st Place: $750, and 2^nd Place: $500 will be granted to the top three fiber art teams. Honorable Mention awards will also be given to two additional teams for “community favorites.”