Honored

The Mansfield Art Center holds an annual all-media juried art show, The May Show, open to artists living in Ohio and must be work completed within the past three years. The show is eagerly awaited by local art lovers. 

The entry process involves bringing work to the Center for jurying instead of submitting images of work online. I entered this year and enjoyed seeing the competing entries when I dropped off my work on Wednesday. Submissions were plentiful and impressive. I waited for juror Michael Martell to make his decisions on Thursday, then for a phone call to learn whether any of my work had been chosen.

The call came on Friday. Two of my three works had been accepted, “Hello Bufo”, and “Advertise”. I had won one of the  monetary awards, the Susan B. Smith Award for Fiber. I am honored!

When I went Saturday to claim my unaccepted work, I asked the question, “Which of the two works won the award?” The answer was that the award was made for both, recognizing them as a body of work. Since I have been working for several years to develop a more consistent ‘voice’, I am very pleased to learn that the juror saw the results of my efforts to define a personal style.

The May Show is open to the public from May 9 until June 6 on Tuesdays to Sundays 11 am to 5 pm. The Mansfield Art Center is at 700 Marion Avenue, Mansfield, Ohio 44906. Admission is free, masks are required and the building is wheelchair accessible mansfieldartcenter.org 

Mansfield Art Center

Jumpstart

I have said before that deadlines motivate me. A flyer arrived in the mail with a call for entry for an all-media May Show exhibition at a local art center. It seems worth the effort to enter because it is a prestigious exhibition at the state level. I view the exhibition every year to learn what is currently being created in my region. The goal of meeting the mid-April deadline should jumpstart forward progress on my current work that has been developing far too slowly.

Jurying for the show is not the usual process of sending a good quality photo of a specific size. Instead, potential exhibitors bring actual artworks to the venue and leave them for jurying. They are notified of acceptance or rejection within three days. Rejected work is picked up on day four, accepted pieces after the exhibit closes. Monetary prizes are being offered. I can enter four pieces of artwork, so here are photos of the four I’m considering. Two are done and have already been shown in other exhibits, one is newly finished, and the fourth is in-progress.

Hello Bufo

Glass Ceiling

Advertise

Wishes (in-progress)