Virginia Artists 2018 Juried Exhibition

Boles_Dare_1_ Water is Key.jpg This annual competition, one of the largest and most comprehensive in the state, showcases the talents of many of Virginia’s finest artists and craftsmen. It features a total of $7,500 in cash awards, including a $1,500 Best in Show, David J. Levinson Photography Award-$1,000 and awards in each media including drawing, printmaking, painting, crafts, watercolor, mixed media, and sculpture. 108 artworks in all styles, genres, and media were selected, and some presented with awards by Seth Feman. Seth Feman is the Curator of Exhibitions and Curator of Photography at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia.

JUROR'S AWARDS

$1,500 Best in Show (One person Show in 2019): Sherman Watkins - Danville, VA

$1,000 First Place Award: Peter Allen - Zoetrope

David Levinson Photography Award: Thomas Moore - Our New Addition

$750 Second Place Award: Sandy Curran - Polarization Pain

$500 Third Place Award: Micah Scott - Bound

$500 Award of Excellence: John Alan Stock - In Search Of, No.14

$500 Realist Painting Award: Gemma B. Wallace - Burn the Barriers

$250 Award of Distinction Drawing: Emily Christoff-Flowers - Listening to Toccata by Widor

$250 Award of Distinction Painting: Ellis Dunbar Hinnant-Will - Susanna and the Elder

$250 Award of Distinction Sculpture: Sherry Willis-Littlepage - Talisman

$250 Award of Distinction Printmaking: Liz Bahl-Moore - His Everyday Needs

$250 Award of Distinction Crafts: Staci Katsias - New Age

$250 Award of Distinction Mixed Media: Dare J. Boles - Water is Key

$250 Award of Distinction Watercolor: Sharolyn Hayes - Bamboo Party

Honorable Mention: Ken Daley - Existential Spectrum

Honorable Mention: Wayne Dodson - A Half Sown Field

Honorable Mention: Mike Brewer - Icon of the Buddha Tara Western Style

Honorable Mention: Joann Sybil Lawson - The Party’s Over

Honorable Mention: James Warwick Jones - The Way We Were Bookshop

OTHER AWARDS

$300 Sandra & David Hillerson Memorial Award: Akiko Tanaka - Star Catcher

On view concurrently: JASON STICK: Night Shift

Jason Stick A Bundle of Flowers in the Grass.jpg Photographer Jason Stick recognizes the allure held by the cover of night. Just as a painter chooses elements to create a landscape or still-life, Stick manipulates darkness and light to cut away visual noise and give shape to his compositions. Jason Stick lives in Virginia Beach, VA with his wife and two children. He earned an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from James Madison University and studied art at Tidewater Community College. Stick recently exhibited the first chapter of his Night Shift series at the Virginia MOCA satellite gallery. The exhibition is a result of Jason Stick’s Best in Show Award in the Virginia Artists 2017 Juried Exhibition.

Join us for creative Arts Happenings centered around the Virginia Artists 2018 Juried Exhibition!

Gallery Talk with the Artists

Sunday, September 16 at 2:30pm

Meet the artists featured in the Virginia Artists 2018 Juried Exhibition, and learn more about the artworks on display.

Poetry Inspired by Art

Sunday, September 30 at 2:30pm

Poets are invited to write poems inspired by the artworks in the exhibition and participate in a poetry reading here in our galleries. The poems are displayed adjacent to the artworks, with the permission of the artist and are also available in notebooks for perusal by our visitors.

The exhibition is on display at The Charles Taylor Visual Arts Center through October 7.