The ANNUAL International Competition | The Print Center

The Print Center’s ANNUAL International Competition is among the most prestigious and oldest competitions within the United States. The Print Center is especially fascinated with highlighting native, nationwide and worldwide artists who make the most of pictures and printmaking in intriguing methods, each in content material and course of. Artists who use printmaking and/or pictures as vital parts of their work, or whose work pushes the boundaries of conventional photographic and printmaking practices, are inspired to enter.

The Print Center has a robust historical past of welcoming artists, audiences and contributors of numerous backgrounds, races, religions, sexual orientations, genders, and gender identities and/or expressions. The Print Center values variety in staffing, management, programming and the vary of communities with which we have interaction. We are dedicated to the continued work of upholding these values and consider eradicating limitations to inclusion is vital to the way forward for our society. We assist and search to offer voice and visibility to rising and established artists of all races, ages, sexual orientations, genders and gender identities and/or expressions. We welcome and encourage the participation of people of all backgrounds who’re impressed by our shared objective. We honor the facility of pictures and print to boost and amplify a multiplicity of voices. We are dedicated to fostering that energy to advocate for change in addition to supporting artists working for fairness and justice in our exhibitions and packages.

Watch earlier award winners focus on their experiences with the ANNUAL!

ANNUAL AWARDS + PRIZES INCLUDE

– Three Solo Exhibitions at The Print Center
– Stinnett Philadelphia Museum of Art Collection Award
– Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Purchase Award
– The Art Museum of West Virginia University Purchase Award
– Callan/McNamara Award
– Fish/Pearce Award
– Jacqueline L. Zemel Prize for Printmaking
– Awagami Paper Award
– Stockbridge Fine Art Print Award
– Two-year Print Center Gallery Store contract
– Online Portfolio Exhibition
– Over $2,000 in different buy and materials prizes

Solo Exhibitions
Three Finalists are chosen by The Print Center to obtain solo exhibitions at The Print Center, Philadelphia.

Stinnett Philadelphia Museum of Art Collection Award
Selected by a curator from the Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs on the Philadelphia Museum of Art, work can be accessioned into the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Purchase Award
Selected by the curatorial employees, chosen work can be accessioned into the Museum’s everlasting assortment.

The Art Museum of West Virginia Purchase Award
Selected by Robert Bridges, curator, work can be accessioned into the Art Museum’s assortment by the Beth and Joe Hestick Acquisitions Fund.

Online Portfolios
The Print Center will mount a web based portfolio exhibition for Semifinalists and Finalists, together with as much as 5 pictures, biographical info and artist statements. Finalists can current an extra 5 pictures for inclusion (as much as 10).

a hundred and first ANNUAL International Competition

We are happy to share the Online Portfolio Exhibition, which presents the work of the ten Finalists and 25 Semifinalists, chosen by jurors Anders Bergstrom, Joshua Chuang and Lesley A. Martin

Past Competitions: 98th, 97th, 96th, ninety fifth, 94th, 93rd, 92nd, 91st, ninetieth, 89th, 88th, 87th, 86th

Information on competitions earlier than 2012 might be discovered right here, and might be searched by yr.