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The State Museum of Pennsylvania Announces Finalists for 55th Annual “Art of the State” Exhibition

08/05/2022

Harrisburg, PA – Finalists have been announced for Art of the State 2022.

 

Art of the State is an annual juried exhibition that has been showcasing the work of Pennsylvania’s artists at The State Museum of Pennsylvania since 1968. The body of art that has been exhibited reflects over a half-century of creative endeavor in the Keystone State. Through the years, artists have shared their ideas and engaged viewers in the categories of painting, photography, craft, sculpture and work on paper.

 

Art of the State 2022 will be on view from September 11 until January 15, 2023. It will open to the public at noon on Sunday, September 11, in conjunction with Harrisburg’s Gallery Walk. Museum admission will be free on September 11. 

 

Award winners will be posted on Facebook and Twitter. An exhibition catalogue pdf and programming announcements can be accessed on the Art of the State 2022 landing page.

 

The exhibit includes 92 works of art by 92 artists from 31 counties of Pennsylvania. Finalists were selected from 1,850 entries from 542 artists.

 

Selection jurors reviewed and scored all of the submitted works. Those with the highest ratings in each category are featured in the exhibition. The awards juror will determine the first-place, second-place and third-place winners in each of the categories.

 

This year’s selection jurors are Sheila Cuellar-Shaffer, Michele Carlson and Roland Graf. 

 

Sheila Cuellar-Shaffer is a Colombian American artist who graduated with a degree in architectural design from the Fundación Academia de Dibujo Profesional and studied fine arts at the Instituto Departamental de Bellas Artes in Cali, Colombia. Sheila’s practice represents her interest in identity, diversity and human rights. Her work has been shown at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Susquehanna Museum of Art, Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and The State Museum of Pennsylvania. Sheila has been invited to show her work at the Pennsylvania State Capitol and the United States Department of Energy. In 2018 her design Democracy Is Power was chosen by the Amplifier Foundation curatorial team, which includes Shepard Fairey and America Ferrera, to travel around the country with #powertothepolls.

 

Michele Carlson is an associate professor of printmaking at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. She was born in Seoul, Korea, and raised in Seattle, Washington. She is a multidisciplinary practitioner working across the fields of art, writing, publishing and collective practice. She is formally trained as a printmaker but works across many mediums and approaches. Her visual work has been exhibited nationally at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Korean Cultural Center LA, Cerasoli Gallery LA and Kearny Street Workshop. She has received residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Kala Art Institute and Montalvo Center for the Arts. 

 

Roland Graf is an Austrian media artist, designer and associate professor at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design. He crosses many disciplines to design objects, intervene in public spaces, and develop novel interactive systems that reframe the body and interactivity in the built environment. Graf’s doctoral research focused on tracing a convergence of artistic and ludic (playful) engineering approaches at the intersection of interactive art and human-computer interaction.  

 

This year’s awards juror is Cynthia Haveson Veloric, who will select recipients in each of the categories.

 

Cynthia Haveson Veloric, Ph.D., is an art historian, curator, writer, lecturer and environmental advocate. She has worked in the curatorial departments of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She recently combined her passion for art and environmental advocacy by pursuing a Ph.D. focused on international contemporary artists’ responses to climate change. Her dissertation is titled “Prolonged Looking and Sensing: How Ecoartists Are Shifting Consciousness Around the Climate Crisis.” In 2018 she curated the exhibition Repairing Our Earth, Diane Burko Artist/Environmental Activist and this fall she will curate the exhibition Risky Beauty: Aesthetics and Climate Change at the Main Line Art Center in Haverford, Pennsylvania.

 

Cash awards of $4,550 will be distributed to artists. A first prize of $500 and second prize of $300 will be awarded in each of the five categories. The William D. Davis Memorial Award for Drawing in the amount of $250 and the Art Docents’ Choice Award of $300 will also be awarded. 

 

Art of the State is presented by The State Museum of Pennsylvania in association with the Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation.

 

The Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation is the nonprofit partner of the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, the state agency charged with collecting, preserving, researching and interpreting the treasures of Pennsylvania. Through private contributions, PHF supports PHMC in protecting and providing access to 24 historic sites and museums, approximately 9 million objects, and more than 250 million archival items.

 

The State Museum of Pennsylvania, adjacent to the State Capitol in Harrisburg, is one of 24 historic sites and museums administered by Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission as part of the Pennsylvania Trails of History. The State Museum offers expansive collections interpreting Pennsylvania’s fascinating heritage. With exhibits examining the dawn of geologic time, the Native American experience, the Colonial and Revolutionary eras, a pivotal Civil War battleground, and the commonwealth's vast industrial age, The State Museum demonstrates that Pennsylvania's story is America's story.

 

For more information about Art of the State 2022 and The State Museum, visit www.statemuseumpa.org or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

 

MEDIA CONTACT: Howard Pollman, 717-705-8639

 

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Artists selected to exhibit at Art of the State 2022 are listed by county:

 

Adams

Joh Ricci        

 

Allegheny

Kenneth Batista         

Dan Droz

Robert Huckestein

Andrew Julo   

Laura Krasnow           

Sandra Moore

Evan Rumble

Robert Sholties

Sarah Simmons

Clare Mears Stefanini

 

Berks

Cheryl Elmo

E. Douglas Wunder

 

Bucks

Jō Adachi

Carter Sio

Dave VanBlarcom

 

Cambria

Norman Ed

 

Centre

Stephen Althouse

Jennifer Kelly

Stephen Tuttle

 

Chester

John Meehan

 

Cumberland

Anya Benninger

Nicole Dube

Gay McGeary

Carol Reed

Quay San

Jeff Wiles

Harold Zabady

 

Dauphin

Alexander Bellotti

Karen Commings

Paul Gallo

Carlotta Miller

Kourtney Stone

 

Delaware

Eli Smith

 

Erie

Matthew Coté

Passle Helminski

Fred Scruton

 

Lackawanna

Bernie Andreoli

 

Lancaster

Denny Bond

Malcolm Corley

Jerome Hershey

Becky McDonah

Janell Olah

Joseph Roach

Barry Steely

Brian R. Tolbert

Mark Vogel

Shelby E. Wormley

Daniel Zdilla

 

Lawrence

Paige Hemke Kleinfelder

 

Lebanon

Claudia Rojas

 

Lehigh

James A. DePietro

 

Luzerne

Lois Pluskey

 

Lycoming

David Moyer

Brian Spies

Jackie Thomas

 

Mercer

Stephanie Martin

 

Monroe

Heidi Hooper

 

Montgomery

James Biglan

Rosalind Bloom

Scott A. Foster

Elizabeth Hamilton

Tom Herbert

Walter Plotnick

Deborah Riccardi

 

Northampton

Amy Blair

Chris Vilardi

 

Northumberland

Sanh Tran

 

Perry

Biruta Hansen

 

Philadelphia

Margery Amdur          

Kevin Bennett

Michael Carr

Morgan Dummitt

Mindy Flexer

Bonnie MacAllister

Nancy Middlebrook

Keely Nilan

Chantal Westby

 

Schuylkill

Valerie Perez-Prosick

Michael Pyrdsa

Robert Stickloon

 

Sullivan

H. M. Levan

 

Union

William Miller

 

Washington

Connie Clutter

 

Westmoreland

Patty Kennedy-Zafred

Stephanie Oplinger

 

York

Shane Bahn

Allen Brenner

Peter Danko

Richard Chandler Hoff

Jo Margolis

Catherine Prescott

 

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