Images 2024 Juried Exhibition

The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is pleased to once again present our popular juried fine art exhibition, Images 2024.  The exhibition runs from July 1 – 31, 2024 at the Schlow Centre Region Library in downtown State College, Pennsylvania.  It is located in the heart of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, which runs July 10 – 14, 2024 and attracts an anticipated 125,000 visitors.

Images 2024 is the Arts Festival’s juried gallery exhibition of fine art featuring drawings, paintings, pastels, mixed media, photography, hand-pulled prints, watercolors, fiber, paper, and digital art from artists aged 16 and older whose primary residence is in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Next year’s Images 2025 deadline will be May 2, 2025.

A total of $1,800 in cash prizes was awarded as follows: one Best of Show Award ($500), Best Painting ($200), Best Pastel ($200), Best Photograph ($200), and 4 merit awards ($150 each).  There is also an award for Best Student Submission ($100).  

The Images 2024 juried fine art exhibition is made possible in part by sponsorships from the Chamber of Business and Industry of Centre County, Benson and Christine Lichtig/Lion & Cub Store, Central Pennsylvania Pastel Society, State College Photo Club, Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania, Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County, Joyce Robinson and Norman Spivey, Chris and Gail Hurley, and the Schlow Library Foundation. Thank you to our sponsors for their generous support!

2024 Exhibition Juror

Danny Volk, Assistant Curator of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, PA will be the juror for this year’s exhibition. 

Previously he was the Terra Foundation for American Art Curatorial Fellow at The Westmoreland where he organized Breaking Ground: Landscape and Labor in Southwestern Pennsylvania in 2023. Previous curatorial projects include Made-Up with Danny Volk at Screen Share at the University of Chicago, The Baby Gap, at Outhaus (Urbana, IL), Submissive Exhibitions at The SUB-MISSION (Chicago), and The News Gallery at SPACES (Cleveland).

He has received grants from the Knight Art Challenge Grant through the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Akron Community Foundation Grant, DCASE (City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events) Individual Artist Program Creative Project Grant, Propeller Fund Grant, and the Mary E. Hofstetter Legacy Scholarship for Excellence in the Visual Arts from the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, and he completed an MFA from The University of Chicago in 2014.

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