Artists are invited to participate in two juried art competitions sponsored by the Huntington Arts Council.
“Portrait of an Artist” with juror Dan Christoffel, who is a national and international exhibiting artist. Teaching both undergraduate and graduate arts classes at LIU Post. He is a guest lecturer at Metropolitan Museum of Art and past president of the Long Island Art Teachers Association.
* ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists including full time students.
* MEDIUM: Oil, Watercolor, Pastel, Graphite, Charcoal and Sculpture. (no photography)
*Deadline for entry: June 12, 2017 by midnight
*Exhibition will run July 21 – August 12, 2017
*Reception is July 21, 2017 from 6 – 8PM.
To enter.
The second competition is “Absolutely Abstract” with Juror Maxine Jurow, who has worked in the language of abstraction throughout her artistic career. She has traveled widely, bringing impressions and inspirations from as far away as Australia and as nearby as Long Island Sound to her colorscape paintings and pastels. Maxine sees abstraction as an imaginative process, rooted in observation,
tied by the thinnest thread to objective reality. Maxine holds a BFA and MFA from
Long Island University.
* ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists including full time students.
* MEDIUM: Oil, Watercolor, Pastel, Graphite, Charcoal and Sculpture. (no photography)
* Deadline for entry: July 10, 2017 by midnight.
* Exhibition will run August 18 – September 9, 2017.
* Reception is Friday, August 18, 2017 from 6-8PM.