River City Art Association invites Indiana and Illinois artists to enter the 17th Annual RCAA Juried Art Exhibit to be on display Aug. 1 through 29 in First Financial Bank Plaza at Sixth Street and Wabash Avenue, Terre Haute, Indiana.
Competition is open to ages 18 and older. Entry deadline is midnight Sunday, July 20.
An opening reception is set for 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1 with an awards ceremony at 6:30. Admission is free during the reception and regular banking hours through Aug. 29.
Artists who place in the art exhibit will have the option of displaying their artwork in a “Winner’s Show” in First Financial’s Springhill branch through Sept. 30.
ABOUT THE JUDGE
Rhonda Yochum is a retired Vigo County School Corp. art educator with degrees in photography and fine arts from Indiana State University and Indiana University. The Terre Haute native has studied equine imagery for more than 30 years, experimenting with a wide variety of materials including acrylics, pastels, watercolors and photography. She studied with photographer Ansel Adams and worked with Ruth Bernard as an assistant at the Carmel Valley Summer Photography workshops as well as with Ginger Katherns from the Cloud Foundation, a 30-year non-profit advocacy organization based in Colorado Springs, Colo. After receiving a Lilly grant for the study of wild horses, she traveled for five weeks and documented and created an art exhibition at Swope Art Museum titled Wild Horses Our National Heritage Species. She continues to study wild horses and educate the public about them alongside the Cloud Foundation. Yochum’s work combines mixed media and photography. She currently exhibits her art throughout the local art and equine art communities.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Categories are Drawing, Oil Painting, Water-Based Painting, Mixed Media, Photography, Digital Art and 3-D Art.
Each entry must be entirely original, completed within the last five years, and not previously entered in a juried RCAA exhibit.
All two-dimensional artwork must be suitably framed and wired for hanging. Art with “sawtooth hangers” and “clip frames” will not be accepted. Gallery-wrapped canvas paintings or photographs qualify.
RCAA reserves the right to reject work that is not suitably framed or is not suitable subject matter for public display.
HOW TO ENTER
Entry fees are $30 for RCAA and Wabash Valley Art Guild members, $36 for non-members, and $15 for students (with valid student ID) for up to three entries per artist.
The entry form with non-refundable fee (and copy of student ID) are due midnight Sunday, July 20.
An online entry form with payment option is provided at RiverCityArt.org/annualartexhibit.
The entry form also can be downloaded, printed and mailed to RCAA 17th Annual Exhibit, P.O. Box 3605, Terre Haute, IN 47803-0605; or, bring printed materials and payment to the 6 p.m. July 8 open membership meeting at the Vigo County Public Library, Seventh and Poplar streets.
Printed participation requirements, entry form and drop off/pickup instructions also will be available at Arts Illiana, 23 N. Sixth St., The Golden Frame at 509 E. Voorhees St. and MuseArt Terre Haute, 2101 Hulman St.
DROP OFF/PICK UP
Artists are to deliver artwork to First Financial Bank’s Sixth Street entrance between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday, July 28. Art/artist identification tags must be attached to the back or bottom of each piece. Art can be picked up between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29. To schedule early pick-up, contact Todd Stokes at The Golden Frame at 812-232-0048.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
Email rivercityartassociation@gmail.com for more information.
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