Landscape art submissions due to Biggs Museum by April 15
The Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover is now accepting applications for its juried Biggs Picture Regional Landscape Competition set Friday, June 2, to Sunday, July 23. This exhibition will present art works from all media such as painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, craft and video. Winners will be the works that most successfully interpret the theme of Landscape. Applications will be accepted through Saturday, April 15.
"Our Biggs Picture exhibition, which happens every three years, features some of the best artistic talent in the region," said Charles Guerin, museum executive director. "We encourage artists across all mediums to enter their best work for an opportunity to exhibit work in this fun, diverse exhibition at the Biggs Museum."
Depending on size, the exhibition will display between 40 and 60 works. Each work must fit within at least one of these sub-themes: Perceived Landscapes: interpretations of actual spaces at particular times; Imagined Landscapes: interpretations of spaces from the past, memory, make-believe and/or the future; and Landscapes of the Mind: interpreting psychological states of being through creations of space.
This exhibition will be supported by a number of educational programs including, but not limited to: curator-led tours of the Biggs Museum's landscape paintings, juror talks, workshops in the museum's galleries and Biggs Kids programming.
Juror will be Jason Rosenfeld, PhD, chair and professor of art history at Marymount Manhattan College and co-curator of River Crossings at the historic homes of landscapists Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church.
One work will be selected as Best in Show for a $1,500 purchase prize to be added to the Biggs Museum collection. A nonrefundable fee of $35 entitles the artist to submit three works to the competition. Additional works may be submitted for $10 each. The Biggs Museum accepts cash, check, VISA, MasterCard or Discover.
The competition is open to all artists, both amateur and professional, of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Completed applications, along with a copy of artist statement/biography and resume, and electronic files may be mailed to Biggs Museum of American Art, Attn: Biggs Picture Competition, P.O. Box 711, Dover, DE 19903. For more information, contact Ryan Grover, curator, at rgrover@biggsmuseum.org or 302-674-2111, Ext. 108, or go to www.BiggsMuseum.org.
