The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is pleased to once again present our popular juried fine art exhibition, Images 2025. The exhibition runs from July 1 – 31, 2025 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 9 – 13, 2025 and attracts an anticipated 125,000 visitors.
Images 2025 Juried Exhibition
Images 2025 is the Arts Festival’s juried gallery exhibition of two-dimensional 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.
The Images 2025 application period is now closed. Next year’s deadline will be May 8, 2026 at midnight.
The Images 2025 Opening Reception will be held at Schlow Centre Region Library on Thursday, July 10, at 5:30 p.m. All are welcome!
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).
Visitors to the Images Exhibition will be able to vote for a Viewers’ Choice Award. Voting ends July 31, 2025.
Images 2025 juried fine art exhibition was 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, Schlow Centre Region Library, and The Gallery Shop. Thank you to our sponsors for their generous support!
Students of The Music Academy will present musical performances in the Images 2025 galleries Thursday, July 10 and Friday, July 11.
2025 Exhibition Juror
Richard Rinehart, Director of the Samek Art Museum at Bucknell University, will be the juror for this year’s exhibition.
Richard has served as Digital Media Director & Adjunct Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and as curator at New Langton Arts and for the San Jose Arts Commission. He juried for the Rockefeller Foundation, Rhizome.org, and others.
He has taught courses on art and new media at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, the San Francisco Art Institute and elsewhere. He served on the boards of the Berkeley Center for New Media, New Langton Arts, and the Museum Computer Network.
He led the NEA-funded project, “Archiving the Avant-Garde”, to preserve digital art and has co-authored a book with Jon Ippolito for MIT Press on collecting and preserving media culture, “Re-Collection: Art, New Media, & Social Memory”.
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