On Friday, Dec. 6, the Studio Art Majors Alliance will host its 13th annual winter Print + Art Sale.
The event will take place on the third floor of the Hanes Art Center in the John C. Henry Print Shop, with additional art and refreshments available in the SAMple Gallery on the second floor.
“Essentially it’s just a big all-day event at the end of the fall semester where any student artists at UNC can enter and sell artwork,” said Anabelle Quarles, the manager of the Print + Art Sale. "We get a lot of turnout from students, but also from people in the surrounding area, including the staff of the Ackland."
Quarles said that at last year’s Print + Art Sale, the Studio Art Majors Alliance sold over $5,000 worth of student art.
Camilla Crane, a member of the Studio Art Majors Alliance, said that students keep most of the profit from their work while 10 percent goes toward keeping the gallery running.
“It’s a platform for student artists to be able to get their work out there for one and name recognition and for lack of a better word, exposure," Quarles said. "But it’s also an opportunity to make real money off of work that they’ve done over the course of the semester or even before — it gives people, even if they're not pursuing a career in art, an opportunity to experience what it’s like to make money off their art."
Quarles said that though the event was originally just for print sales, it has now been expanded to include a variety of different kinds of art.
“It lends itself well to people selling print, but it’s open to any kind of art," Quarles said. "We’ve had people sell perfume before, we’re going to have a specific section dedicated to apparel this year, there’s one artist that I’ve been talking to who is going to be selling custom poems. So it’s really all kinds of stuff."
Luke Collins, a member of the Studio Art Majors Alliance whose work will be featured at the event, works under the moniker Blue Boy. “It’s kind of the way I brand myself, “Collins said.
