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Member News, Kim M. Long

February 15, 2023

On December 1st “Sun Kissed” won 2nd place in the 2022 GPE Pastel Dust Off Show and November 12th won the “Associated Artist” award of Southport, NC in Oak Island Art Guild.

I created a still life of oranges on a green velvety material draped over a tabletop. This setup was inside a black box with a warm light bulb spotlight inserted into a open on one side. Sun Kissed is a 8.5″ x 10.5″ pastel painting of a orange and orange slices. I used hard pastels, variety of soft pastels, and pastel pencils on a gridded grey pastelmat paper.

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OPEN CALL – Arte Laguna Prize 17

October 13, 2022

Applications are now open for Arte Laguna Prize 17.

Arte Laguna Prize is the international competition, with international jurors, dedicated to visual arts and design that gives artists the opportunity to join a large network of collaborations, get free visibility and sell their works on the online platform artelaguna.world, win a cash prize of € 10,000, exhibit in Venice (Italy) at the Arsenale Nord.

The Prize is open to the following artistic disciplines:
painting, sculpture and installation, photographic art, video art and short films, performance, digital art, digital graphics and cartoon, environmental and land art, urban art and street art, art design.

THE INTERNATIONAL JURY
The jury is composed of important curators and directors of museums operating in different countries
The jury selects the 120 artists that will exhibit at the Arsenale Nord in Venice

THE NETWORK
Each year Arte Laguna Prize collaborates with high-level international partners to offer artists opportunities around the world. Each partner will choose an artist for the following special prizes:
– Art Residencies
– Art Galleries
– Business for Art
– Festivals and Exhibitions
– Sustainability and Art Prize
– Emerging Artists Award

Applications have no restrictions; they are open to all artists. The deadline is October 31, 2022.

For info:
info@artelagunaprize.com
Tel +39 0415937242
Announcement https://artelagunaprize.com/terms-and-conditions-22-23

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Call for Artists: Central Mass Pastel Society’s Marks of Distinction National Juried Show

May 26, 2022

All artists working in soft pastel are invited to enter their best work to Central Mass Pastel Society’s Marks of Distinction National Juried Show, now open for submissions until June 20 on ShowSubmit. The show will take place September 1-28, 2022 at Fivesparks, Harvard, MA.

Awards totaling over $5000 will be judged in person by pastel expert and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, painting curator Katie Hanson, and presented at a public reception on September 10, 4-6pm.

Selection jurors are Liz Balkwill and Natasha Isenhour. The gallery will be staffed for sales throughout the show; the show and sale will also be online.

For questions about the prospectus, contact info@cmpastels.org.

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Member News, Rita Kirkman

May 15, 2022

Rita Kirkman had a painting accepted into the IAPS 2022 Exhibition, 8th Masters Circle Division. The 2022 IAPS PastelWorld Exhibition will take place at the 2022 IAPS Convention in Albuquerque, NM, USA from June 22-25, 2022.

Rita has also won the Gold Award in the Established Artist Division of the Austin Pastel Society Spring Non-Juried Exhibition with her painting “Seeking Social Sheep” (pastel, 30×40″)

Thank you to show judge Mike Etie!

The show continues at Artworks Gallery in Austin TX through June 11.

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Member News, Toni Lindahl

May 3, 2022

I am incredibly honored to have received First Place in The Pastel 100 Landscape/Interior competition published in the current issue of the Pastel Journal. I wish to thank the juror, Nancy Nowak, for choosing Canyon Patterns and for her inciteful words.

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Member News, Emily Thompson

January 6, 2022

Latest Works

Short Stop’s Mitt and Ball: 9×11 charcoal and pastel drawing. This short stop’s mitt and baseball have been sitting on my husband’s dresser for a very long time. An occasion for a still life if there ever was one.

Old Dairy Road: 5.5×9″ soft pastel loose sketch. Exhibited at Captain White’s House – The Alamance Art Center 2021. Every morning, Brownie and Maggie and I walk this old dirt road. The original settler family had a dairy at the end of this road. History, art and a dog walk – all together – life is good.

Farm Textures: 12×18″ hard pastel. Exhibited at Captain White’s House – The Alamance Art Center in Autumn 2021. Old Basket, bricks, branches and black wasps from our farm. The bricks are from an 1850’s building razed in 2015. They are called “clinkers” because they were over baked.

Northumberland Beach: 9×11 Soft Pastel. Exhibited at Captain White’s House The Alamance Art Center. Sold.

Short Stop’s Mitt and Ball
Old Dairy Road
Farm Textures
Northumberland Beach

 

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Member News, Jim Hallenbeck

January 12, 2021

Sycamore Tree won the Claude Parsons Memorial Award in the American Artists Professional League’s 92nd Grand National Exhibition in November 2020. Normally held at the Salmagundi Club in NYC, this year’s exhibition was online. AAPL shortly after offered me an Elected Associate Member status which I accepted.

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Member News, Jeff Fahey

September 21, 2020

Recently, my painting, Genesis, won the Benefactor’s Award in the 29th Annual Waterway Art Association Show and Sale held in Calabash, NC. The show was judged by Kari Feuer of Wilmington, NC.

Genesis by Jeff Fahey

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Member News, Wendy Koehrsen

November 3, 2019

Wendy Koehrsen placed 3rd Place in the professional drawing category at the 2019 NC State Fair with a pastel painting Look at Me.

 

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Juried Show Announcement – Hillsborough Gallery of Art

August 28, 2019

The Hillsborough Gallery of Art is holding its annual statewide juried show. Please visit their website for more information and to download the prospectus.

Entry Deadline: October 1, 2019

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Pure Color 2019 Online Exhibition

June 10, 2019

International Juried Exhibition of Pastel Paintings
September 1, 2019 – September 30, 2019
Juror of Selection and Judge of Awards: Deborah LaFogg

Online Entry Deadline: August 2, 2019
$2000 in Cash Awards

Download the prospectus

Learn more and submit your artwork here: https://www.onlinejuriedshows.com/Default.aspx?OJSID=34089

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The North Carolina 2019 Pastel Exhibition has been juried.  See accepted entries!

March 26, 2019

A total of 190 entries were received from 103 artists. From those, 60 paintings from 45 artists were chosen for the Exhibition.  As expected, the quality of the entries was exceptional.

JUROR STATEMENT 2019 NC Statewide Show  Lyn Asselta:

“As a juror, there are several things that I feel contribute to the makings of an exceptional show. First and foremost, I look for originality, both in content and composition. I look for works that have an emotional quality to them. I look for works that are technically well presented but that go beyond technical perfection. I was pleased to find in this group of entries, paintings that were exciting, intriguing and that begged me to look closer.

“For those artists whose work was chosen, I offer my congratulations and I am pleased to have had the honor of selecting your work. I hope you are pleased, too, with the works that will hang beside yours in this show.

“For each and every artist who entered paintings, I offer my congratulations, as well. It is a feat of courage to enter a show and the confidence to do so only comes after the hard work of pushing yourself to greater heights with your work. In a field of many outstanding entries, there is always a limit to how many can be chosen. If 60 are chosen, you will never know if you were the 61st. I have long believed that those near misses are the fuel that makes us want to be better, to learn more, to put even more of our hearts into our paintings.

“To all the artists and to the coordinators of this statewide exhibit, thank you for entrusting me to this task. My hope is that the show will be an inspiring example of what can be achieved with our wonderful, unique medium of pastel.”

Congratulations to all whose artwork will be included!  Below is a list of the accepted entries.

Lynette BettiniBeach Bikes
Cathyann BurgessPinnacle Ridge
Lucy Cobos Chicken Shack
Back to Dionis
Karen Cotler The Shape of Water
In Her Heyday
Linda CoulterCoffee House Corner
Jay DeChesereCody No. 4
Marilyn DwyerBoys of Summer
Lynn Ebanks Chuma of Africa
Tracy Ference Lumiere
Fred Fielding Mighty Niagara Sunset
Canola Field
J Kay GordonThe Offering
Alec Hall We have Lift-off
Jesse
Judy Harron Only Alive in Glass: Carolina Parakeets
Anthony Hedrick Bella Figura in Centro Monterosso al Mare
Sharon Roselle Howard 1.618
Gail Hurt Almost Home
Michael Jarman Once Upon a Princess
Tammy Kaufman Through My Lens – Self Portrait
Wendy KoehrsenSilverback
What Ducks
Toni Lindahl Possum Kingdom
Kim Long Dancing in the Sun
Roxanne Lorch Goat To It
Linda Medders-JacksonThe Guardians
Karen MelloJoy in the Morning
Meryl Meyer Sunlit Ravenna
Eve MillerTextures at Low Tide
Ashley MortensonMack Truck Steering Wheel
Summer Hydrangeas
Lyle MullicanA Stroll through the Kelp Forest
Karla PaceView from East Rim Trail
Kathy Pruett Those Skinny Beeches…
They Always Get Tipsy…
Debbie RasberryIn the Stillness
Fifty Shades of Gray Day
BF ReedSunny Side Up
Norma Rollet Between the Weeds
On the Fence Too
Gary Rupp Cool Days
Rolling Sky
Maria Rush Parnell Lost Solemates
Promise
Zoe Schumaker Howl
Susan Sinyai In the Grove
Ginny Stocker Wild Seed Wakeup
Valley Thaw
Anne StrutzSnap Chat
A Taylor Y
Anne Van Blarcom KurowskiThe Eyes Have It
Kurt WeiserWild Lavender
Dorothy WhitmoreAnne in the Garden
Barbara Kitty WilliamsShe Stands
Luana Luconi WinnerGreat Faces Series: Turquoise
Robe Series:Turquoise

The opening reception and presentation of awards will be in the gallery with the show Saturday, May 4th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. at the Hickory Museum of Art, 243 Third Ave, NE, Hickory, NC 28601.  Driving directions at http://hickoryart.org/.  Lyn Asselta, show juror, will be joining us for the reception. We hope you will be able to attend. If not, we encourage you to view the show during its stay.  Gallery hours are posted on the HMA website.

The 2019 NC Statewide Pastel Exhibition will run from May 4 to August 18, 2019at the Hickory Museum of Art

Lyn Asselta (juror) will conduct a live painting demonstration from 1pm till 4 pm on May 4th. The Demo will be in the Education Classroom area of the Museum.  Information about this Demo, and online registration are available on the APS website… mid-way down the home page., www.appalachianpastelsociety.org.  Tickets are $25 in advance; $30 at the door.

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Win a $100 Jack Richeson Gift Certificate!

June 1, 2018

JUST ANNOUNCED!

Early Entrants to the APS 2018 Juried Member Show will be eligible to win a $100 Jack Richeson Gift Certificate! (Donated by Jack Richeson Company)

Your Entry must be received by midnight, June 15th. A random drawing will take place on June 16th.

[The entry DEADLINE for the show is still July 1st.]

Links to the prospectus and all entry information is on the home page of the website… http://www.appalachianpastelsociety.org

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Call to Artists: Dimensions – 54th Annual National Juried Fine Art Competition (Winston-Salem, NC)

February 7, 2018

May 30 – July 24
At the Womble Carlyle Gallery inside the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts
251 N. Spruce Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101

Dimensions is a national juried art exhibition, established by AAWS in 1964 to showcase outstanding visual art in two and three-dimensional fine art media. This year’s exhibition will be held inside the Womble Carlyle Gallery at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts in Downtown Winston-Salem, NC, the City of Arts and Innovation. This year’s exhibition will be jurored by Jerald L. Melberg,

For more information and prospectus: ​http://www.associatedartists.org/dimensions-2018.

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Member News, Eileen Wilhem

January 31, 2018

I am pleased to announce that three of my paintings were juried into the latest show at Red Dog Gallery in Winston-Salem. It runs through the end of March.

Opening reception is February 2 from 7-10pm.

Address: 630 N Liberty St, Winston-Salem, NC 27101

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6th Annual PURE COLOR: Online International Juried Exhibition of Pastel Paintings
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Arizona Pastel Artists Association’s 2023 Open International Exhibition

“Don Keyfurry” Paint-Along with Rita Kirkman, on Zoom

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