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February 17, 2025
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Calling All Pennsylvania Artists – Applications Now Being Accepted for Images 2025 Exhibition
The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts has issued the Call for Entries for its prestigious 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.
Images 2025 is open to artists 16 and older whose primary residence is in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Eligible 2D media include drawings, paintings, pastels, mixed media, photography, hand-pulled prints, watercolors, fiber, paper, and digital art. Digital images of original work produced after January 1, 2022 may be submitted. The entry deadline is May 9.
The application and full Call For Entries may be found online at arts-festival.com/images-juried-exhibition. That’s also where you can find a link to last year’s Images 2024 online gallery.
Richard Rinehart, Director of the Samek Art Museum at Bucknell University, will be the juror for the Images 2025 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”.
The juror will award a total of $1,800 in cash prizes as follows: Best of Show ($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 10, 2025.
Double Parked, an oil painting by Nasir Young of Willow Grove, PA was awarded the Images 2024 Best of Show, sponsored by the Chamber of Business & Industry of Centre County.
“Pennsylvania has such a rich diversity of artists, and the Images Exhibition is a great display of what we have to offer the world”, said Nasir.
The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts looks forward to showcasing the talent and creativity of Pennsylvania’s artists and encourages all to apply.
The exhibition is just one facet of the 59th Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, which will be held July 9 through July 13, 2025. Watch for more information at arts-festival.com.
The Arts Festival receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and additional grant support from the Happy Valley Adventure Bureau and Centre County Commissioners.
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