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. The exhibition 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 Juried Exhibition
Images 2024 is a 2-D gallery exhibition 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.
The Images 2024 Exhibition application deadline was May 3, 2024. Next year’s Images 2025 deadline will be May 2, 2025.
A total of $1,800 in cash prizes will be 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). Winners will be announced at an Awards Reception during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts on July 11, 2024 sponsored by CBICC.
The Images 2024 juried fine art exhibition is made possible in part by sponsorships from the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania, Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County, Central Pennsylvania Pastel Society, State College Photo Club, Joyce Robinson and Norman Spivey, Chris and Gail Hurley, Benson & Christine Lichtig/Lion & Cub Store, 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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