Juror: Annemarie Sawkins, PhD: Independent Curator
Exhibition on view February 20 – May 3, 2025
Public Reception: Thursday, February 20. 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Juror’s talk at 6:30 pm
Location: Masur Museum of Art, 1400 South Grand Street
About the Exhibition
The Masur Museum of Art’s Annual Juried Competition showcases contemporary artists throughout the United States of America working in any medium. The Annual Juried Competition is the Masur Museum’s longest-running tradition and one of its best-reviewed exhibitions each year. Annually, contemporary works of art are submitted by artists all over the nation, in all styles and media. The Masur Museum is proud to offer cash awards to exhibiting artists totaling $3,200.
Juror: Annemarie Sawkins
The Annual Juried Competition is also a chance to exhibit some of the United States’ best curatorial talent. This year, the Masur Museum is excited to have Annemarie Sawkins judge the submitted artworks and select the cash award winners.
Annemarie Sawkins, PhD, is a Milwaukee-based independent curator, who has curated several exhibitions for the Masur Museum of Art including Kogyo: Japanese Woodblock Prints (2022), Treasures of Art Nouveau (2019), and Afghan War Rugs: The Modern Art of Central Asia (2018). Her more recent projects include Profound Prints: Art by Exceptional Women at the Hilliard Art Museum and A Creative Place at the Trout Museum of Art. From 1999 to 2012, she was a curator at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University. A frequent juror and portfolio reviewer, Annemarie Sawkins earned an MA and PhD in Art/Architectural History from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Selected Artists:
Susan Aaron-Taylor (Pleasant Ridge, MI), Ayako Abe-Miller (Greenville, SC), Robert Andrews (Royse City, TX), Karen Appleton (Oakland, CA), Norman Aragones (San Jose, CA), Gail Arnold (Irving, TX), Paul Atkinson (Raleigh, NC), Jesse Aviv (Jersey City, NJ), Christopher Bachers (Texarkana, TX), Peter Baczek (Oakland, CA), Monica Banks (East Hampton, NY), Ernesto Beckford (Chadds Ford, PA), Mary Beiler (Sarasota, FL), Pamela Benham (Santa Barbara, CA), Ashlie Benton (Santa Rosa, CA), Jacquelyn Blackstone (Albuquerque, NM), Sally Blair (Chicago, IL), Kate Borcherding (Huntsville, TX), Marc Brechwald (Tampa, FL), Terry Brewer (Santa Fe, NM), Terri Bright (Greenville, SC), Lindsay Carraway-Clifton (Sterlington, LA), Gary Cawood (Little Rock, AR), Emily Clare (Winston Salem, NC), Bob Conge (Wayland, NY), Daniel Cosentino (Morristown, NJ), Dean Dablow (Ruston, LA), Lisa Devlin (Baton Rouge, LA), Debra Disman (Los Angeles, CA), James Ehlers (Waco, TX), Karen Eisele (Houston, TX), Aly Faber (Salt Lake City, UT), Alex FDEZ Fernandez (Bronx, NY), Patty Flauto (Rocky River, OH), Janavi Folmsbee (Houston, TX), Spencer Frazer (Seattle, WA), Julianne French (Jacksonville, FL), Eliza Frensley (Nashville, TN), Alan Garry (Sleepy Hollow, NY), Robert Gideon (Los Angeles, CA), Toby Lee Greenberg (New York, NY), Jason Guynes (Tuscaloosa, AL), Timothy Harris (Haslet, TX), Faith Hensley (Shreveport, LA), Steve Jacobson (Auburndale, MA), Kevin B Jones (San Francisco, CA), Brian Kreydatus (Williamsburg, VA), Adam Land (Houston, TX), Emily Leibowitz (Ruston, LA), Jeffrey Lewis (Opelika, AL), AnaMarie Liddell (Charlottesville, VA), TOGO LOVE (NYC, NY), Benjamin Madeska (Chicago, IL), Susan Mania (Stockton, NJ), Elizabeth Marsh Burkholder (Tucson, AZ), Jennifer Martin (Houston, TX), Laura Hunt Miller (Ruston, LA), Meghan Mirasolo (Melrose, MA), Frazier Moore (New York, NY), Dave Morgan (Jackson, MS), Joe Morzuch (Starkville, MS), Lake Newton (Memphis, TN), Soon Ee Ngoh (Mississippi State, MS), Amanda Norris (Monroe, LA), Gerry O’Meara (Augusta, GA), Brigid OKane (Cincinnati, OH), Walt Padgett (Grants Pass, OR), Laurie Peek (Tappan, NY), Marianne Petit (New York, NY), Wes Rankin (Oxford, MS), Sharon Reinckens (Rockville, MD), Mark Reynolds (Santa Fe, NM), Andy Ross (Fenwick island, DE), Liz Roth (Stillwater, OK), Edward L. Rubin (Los Angeles, CA), Nadine Saitlin (Boca Raton, FL), Lael Salaets (Eugene, OR), Mila Sketch (Austin, TX), Charese Smiley (Bristol, WI), Sarah Spillers (Guthrie, KY), Diane Staver (Kokomo, IN), Tom Stoffregen (Minneapolis, MN), Christina Szakonyi (Dunnellon, FL), Gabrielle Tito (New York, NY), Jeff Vincent (Arlington, VA), Ting Wang (Stillwater, OK), Rob Whitcomb (Ithaca, NY), Stephen Wozniak (Los Angeles, CA), Kiki Zhen (Long Beach, CA), Yicheng Zhu (Pasadena, CA), Anna Zusman (Magnolia, AR)
The Masur Museum of Art is the largest collecting and exhibiting institution of modern and contemporary art in
Northeast Louisiana. We are dedicated to bringing dynamic public programming to our community that
emphasizes artists from Louisiana, the Southeast, and around the world. The Masur Museum of Art is a division
of the City of Monroe’s Department of Community Affairs. Exhibitions and educational programs are funded by the Twin City Art Foundation. The Masur Museum’s mission is to provide a quality visual arts experience through temporary exhibitions, educational programs, and collections management for the citizens of Monroe and the community of Northeast Louisiana.
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