May All-Media Exhibition 2025

May 2025 Juried All-Media Exhibition 

Juror: Reni Gower

Professor Emerita of Art Virginia Commonwealth University
Curator, Wylie Contemporary, Inc  

Reni Gower is an artist, curator, educator. Her work has been exhibited at international and national venues for over 40 years and represented in collections such as the Global Centre for Drawing, Melbourne, Australia; the Library of Congress Print Collection; the American Embassies in Lima, Peru and Osaka Japan; Capital One; and the Federal Reserve Bank.   She is the recipient of numerous awards including a 2023 Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship for Works on Paper and a 2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.  In 2017, she was awarded SECAC’s Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement.  In 2014, she received the College Art Association’s Distinguished Teacher of Art Award, as well as distinguished teaching awards from Virginia Commonwealth University and VCUarts.  Gower also curates award winning traveling exhibitions that include COLLECTive Concerns: Collage and Assemblage; The Garden: Thistle and Thorn, FLASHPOINTS: Material/Intent/Fused, Geometric Aljamía: a Cultural Transliteration, and Pulped Under Pressure: the Art of Handmade Paper. After 37 years, Professor Emerita Gower retired from Virginia Commonwealth University in December 2018.  Gower is represented by Chroma Projects, Charlottesville, VA. She holds an MFA from Syracuse University, an MA from the University of MN-Duluth, and a BS from the University of WI-Madison.

       

Artists Notified via Email by: Friday, April 25, 2025

Artwork Drop Off: Wednesday, May 7 – 10, 2025 by Noon

Exhibition Opening: Friday, May 16, 5pm – 8pm

Exhibition End Date: Sunday, June 29, 2025

Artwork Available for Artists to Pick Up: Tuesday, July 1, 2025