Cash prizes Best in Show (2): $1,000 | Juror’s Award (3): $500 | Juror’s Award (2): $250 Washington County Arts Council, Inc. Award (2): $250 The Valley Art Association Award (2): $250 Clyde H. Roberts Memorial Award for Best Watercolor: $250 Director’s Award Given in Memory of Lee Weaver: $300 People’s Choice Award (2): $100 gift card
Art Juror: Mary Morton
Mary Morton is curator and head of the French paintings department at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. She received her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in history, and her doctorate from Brown University, concentrating on 19th- and early 20th- century European painting. Dr. Morton began her curatorial career in the European art department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and then as associate curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. At the National Gallery, she organized the presentation of Gauguin: Maker of Myth (2011), a reinstallation of the Gallery’s renowned 19th-century collection (2012); Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye (2015), Cézanne Portraits (2017-18), Corot Women (2018) and True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe, 1780-1870 (2020). In 2018, the French government awarded her the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Photography Juror: Leo Hsu
Leo Hsu’s life has been spent with photography. He is the Interim Executive Director of Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, and he is also an instructor in the photography program at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a managing editor for the online photography resource Fraction Magazine, and was the director of online development for the photojournalism/documentary photography magazine and website Foto8. Hsu holds a doctorate in anthropology from New York University and a certificate in the program in culture and media (New York). He has written extensively about photography and worked as a newspaper photographer.
Who may enter Open to artists in MD, VA, WV, PA, DC Entering
Each artist may submit up to four works.
All entries are submitted online at http://www.smarterentry.com/CallsForEntry
All work must have been completed in the last two years.
No artwork previously shown at the museum will be accepted.
Submit digital images not to exceed 8 MB. *
- Upload 1 image for each 2D object or up to 3 photos for sculpture. Use “Additional Notes” to enter descriptive information about medium (Mixed media – paper, paint, found object, etc...)