The West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History will unveil the 2022 West Virginia Emerging Artists Juried Exhibition in the Commissioner’s Gallery of the West Virginia State Museum at the Culture Center, State Capitol Complex in Charleston on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022, at 2 p.m. The award winners also will be announced during the opening. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
This year’s exhibition features 58 creative pieces representing the talents of 44 West Virginia artists from 19 counties.
The juror for this year’s Emerging Artists Exhibition was Lauren Frances Adams. Adams teaches full-time at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she trained in mural painting, and from Carnegie Mellon University with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2007. Her work has been exhibited widely in artist-run spaces, historic houses, university galleries, museums and public spaces. Adams has been a visiting artist and critic at Valand Academy in Sweden, Funen Academy in Denmark, and at universities, colleges and museums throughout the United States. Adams has exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Warhol Museum, Nymans House National Trust in England, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, The Mattress Factory, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Smack Mellon, and CUE Art Foundation. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and has held residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, La.; Cité internationale des Arts in Paris, France; Sacatar Foundation in Bahia, Brazil; and Back Lane West in Cornwall.
Department will present three awards for the exhibition. The Best of Show/First Place Award will receive $1,000; second place will receive $500; and third place will collect $250.
Eligible artists had to be 18 years of age and older and maintain a permanent domicile in West Virginia. Each artist could submit two pieces for the exhibit jurying in painting, print/drawing, mixed media, craft/wall hangings, photography, digital art and/or sculpture. All pieces must have been created between 2020 and 2022.
The exhibit will be on display until April 15. The Culture Center is open Tuesday through Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information about the exhibit, contact Laiken Blankenship, exhibits coordinator for the department, at 304-558-0220 or Laiken.J.Blankenship@wv.gov.
Area Emerging Artists Exhibitors include:
Donald T. Earley
Monroe County
Crayon
Print/Drawing
and
March 32
Painting
Peggy Owens
Pocahontas County
Kandinsky’s Appalachian Symphony
Mixed Media
Jesus Perez
Monroe County
Morning Alderson
Photography
Jo Perez
Monroe County
Pandemonium
Crafts
