Nominations are currently being sought for the 44th Lubbock Arts Festival Jury Gallery Competition.

The event is part of the annual Lubbock Arts Festival scheduled for April 8-10 and is open to all artists working in any fine art medium.

Applications must be original in design and execution and must have been completed within the past two years. Work carried out in the workshop or under supervision is not eligible.

The registration fee is $ 30 per entry and each artist cannot have more than three works represented in the exhibition, but the number of entries is not limited. Registration fees are non-refundable. Registrations will only be accepted online via callforentry.org

The juror of this exhibition is Isadora Stowe, a multimedia artist and art teacher whose work focuses on the environmental narrative translated and encoded into complex psychological landscapes.

Stowe grew up in the Southwest, living and working in New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. She credits these experiences for providing an increased awareness of geographic and political boundaries, and a fascination with exploring self-identity and home-building in her work.

Stowe received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting with a double major in Cultural Anthropology, a minor in Native American Studies, and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing. She exhibits her work on a large scale and is represented in numerous collections across the country and in Mexico.

She has received several grants, scholarships, and awards for her work, including an Award of Excellence from the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She was recently featured in the book “The Motherhood of Art” published in April 2020 by Schiffer Publishing.

She sits on numerous local and national committees and the board of directors of the Texas Association of Schools of Art and Bordersenses, a nonprofit organization that promotes the arts in the binational region.

All submissions for the Jury Gallery Competition must be received by the Lubbock Arts Alliance no later than Tuesday March 15th. Selection notifications will be sent by post on Monday March 28.

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Selected works must be hand-delivered on Wednesday, April 6, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, 1501 Mac Davis Lane. All unsold and hand-delivered art must be picked up between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday, April 10 at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.

All accepted artwork must be hand-delivered, ready to hang securely with wire (no sawtooth hangers) for display. Alliance des arts will not accept shipped artwork. The framed size limit is 44 inches wide and 72 inches high.

All accepted works will remain on display for the duration of the 44th annual Lubbock Arts Festival. The jury gallery will be in the banquet hall 1/3 of the Civic Center.

Up to $ 1,000 in cash prizes will be awarded at the discretion of the jury.

All works of art must be for sale at the price determined at the time of submission and include sales tax. Lubbock Arts Alliance will retain a 33 1/3% commission on all gallery sales.

The Lubbock Arts Alliance reserves the right to reproduce the work for advertising purposes. The submission of an entry to this exhibition indicates an agreement on the part of the artist to these conditions.

For more information, visit lubbockartsfestival.org, call (806) 744-2787 or email [email protected]

This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Applications Wanted for the Arts Festival Jury Gallery Competition