Home Arts & Fine Arts

Miller Murphy Howard & Heritage Hall
Open Daily 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM

Home Arts and Fine Arts Competitions are made up of several departments. You will find competitions in Fine Art, Wood Turning, Quilts, Decorative Painting, Spinning and Weaving, Wood Carving, Photography, Creative Crafts, Leathercraft, Needle Arts, Sewing, Food Preservation, Budding Artists, Woodworking, Youth Art, Collections, Hand Painted China, and Antiques, Culinary Baking and Live Competitions, Horticulture (Standard Flower and Camellia Shows), and Soap Carving.

All potential exhibitors are required to read the “General Rules and Regulations” in addition to the rules in the department they are entering. Check individual departments for deadlines.

Our office hours are 8:30 AM– 4:30 PM Monday – Friday. Please email any questions you may have about the Georgia Living Programs to contests@gnfa.com.

Online registration for most departments is now open. Other departments will be added as they are updated.
Registration for Youth Art will open on August 1.

Georgia Living Store - Are you an artist, crafter, creator? Enter the Georgia Living Competitions and showcase your work! Exhibitors can also take advantage of the opportunity to consign items for sale in the Georgia Living Store. Learn more about the Georgia Living Store in the Information section.


To view 2025 competition results, CLICK HERE.

A NOTE ON PRE-REGISTRATION - Online registration closes three days prior to receiving of entries for the contest (on the Wednesday prior to the Saturday department deadline for pre-fair competitions) to allow time for processing entries for receiving.

If you plan to bring entries on a Saturday before your department’s deadline, they must be registered by the preceding Wednesday to ensure they are included in the receiving list. Entries cannot be registered on the morning of receiving day and still be expected to appear on the list. They will have to be manually entered at receiving.

Example: If you have sewing entries you wish to bring early along with your quilt entries on September 12, those sewing entries must be registered by September 9 to appear on the receiving list for that date.

Receiving of entries will be on Saturdays only from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dates vary by department. To allow for better management of traffic flow and avoid long wait times, we ask that if you are bringing entries for a group, or bringing 20 or more entries, please contact us at contests@gnfa.com or call 478-988-6555 to make an appointment. Note: 10 a.m. is the busiest time for receiving.

Online Entries

Be sure to read your department’s information in the competition section; print to use as a reference during registration.

• Passwords: For all departments except Youth Art, you will choose your own password when you register. Please be sure to write down your password. The Georgia Living Department does not have access to individual passwords.

• Fine Art images will be submitted along with your online entry. The download option will appear after you pay entry fees and receive your confirmation. Please make sure the images are labeled with their title. If uploading multiple images for an entry, upload the front view first. You may review previous entries and reprint confirmation receipts from the online registration site.

• For Youth Art entries, teachers (or parents of students entering as individuals) must obtain a password by contacting contests@gnfa.com. Deadline to obtain password is September 21, 2026. Note: It may take up to two (2) business days to process passwords, so please do not wait until deadline date to request your password. When you get to the online registration site, choose “club” from the drop down menu. Choose your club name, and enter your password to proceed. We advise using the same password for all entries. You may review previous entries and reprint confirmation receipts on the online registration site.

• The Standard Flower Show and Camellia Show are processed differently than the other departments. To pre-register online, exhibitors follow the same process as for other departments, but make only one entry in the “Pre-registered (Standard Flower or Camellia) Entry” class for their particular show.

To register for all available Home Arts & Fine Arts departments CLICK HERE.