Home Arts & Fine Arts

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.

Receiving of entries will be on Saturdays only from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 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.

Registration for our Fine Art juried show and other available departments is now open. Registration for other departments will be made available as they are updated.

2022 competition information will be posted as it is updated.

To view 2021 competition results, CLICK HERE.

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. 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 19, 2022. 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.

For online registration in available departments, please CLICK HERE. Other departments will be added as they are updated.

Registration for Youth Art is now available. Please CLICK HERE.