Jasper Community Arts seeking submissions for 25th Juried Art Show

The Krempp Gallery encourages artists to submit applications for the 25th Annual Juried Art Show; deadline June 29.

Only artists who are current or former residents of Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan or Ohio can apply.

Applications are now available on our website at, http://www.jasperarts.org and can be found on our Facebook page. To apply, send completed application and images by USPS or email to visualarts@jasperindiana.com. The application must be postmarked by June 29, 2018.

Louisville artist, curator and former gallery director, John Begley (BFA with Distinction, University of New Mexico, 1969; MFA, Indiana University, 1975) recently retired from the Hite Art Institute at the University of Louisville. Now working as an independent artist he currently maintains an active individual studio practice that combines a variety of his interests and training, including drawing, printmaking, book arts, installation and intermedia combinations that examine the nature of seeing, making and thinking about the world of art.

He also continues a variety of independent curatorial projects, including coordinating the incorporation of the International Honor Quilt, gifted in 2014 by Judy Chicago to the University of Louisville, into the Hite Art Institute’s art collection.

After joining University of Louisville’s Hite Art Institute in 2001, he directed its galleries until his retirement in June of 2014, including its expansion to the Cressman Center for Visual Art and became the lead faculty in establishing its Master of Arts program in Critical and Curatorial Studies.

The founding director of the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, now part of the University of Southern Indiana, he served for more than 18 years as director of the Louisville Visual Art Association.

Begley has produced hundreds of exhibitions, both for the institutions for which he has worked, and to travel to venues beyond his own, including shows that have toured the Midwest and South and internationally to Scotland, Germany, France and Taiwan.

In addition to directing the University of Louisville Hite galleries and expanding its facilities with a renovated Belknap campus gallery and a new downtown gallery, the Cressman Center, he has mentored dozens of Curatorial Studies graduate students who have assumed leadership positions after their graduation in museums and art organizations locally, regionally and nationally.

His teaching experience also includes summer museum courses with the Kentucky Institute of International Studies (KIIS) in Berlin. A recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany and Getty Museum Management Institute Fellowships, Begley oversaw the growth of the Louisville Visual Art Association from a five-member staff to a multi-function exhibition, education and advocacy art center with numerous art, community and corporate partners and over a million dollar budget.

He has also been an active advocate for the visual arts in Louisville and its state and region. He helped found the long-running Louisville co-operative gallery, Zephyr, facilitated and led the organization of the citywide art dealers and presenters organization, LOOK, and worked long-term as an advocate for the establishment of a city public art program, MetroLouisville’s Commission on Public Art (COPA).

He also serves on numerous community and regional arts advisory boards and panels as well as being a frequent adjudicator for state, regional and national arts exhibitions and granting agencies including the IMLS as well as many individual visual art institutions. $2,000 in prize monies will be awarded in the categories of BEST OF SHOW, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE, HIGH HONOR AWARD, and five HONORABLE MENTIONS.

The Krempp Gallery, located in the Jasper Arts Center, adjacent to the VUJ campus, is open to the public Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., until 7 p.m. on Thursdays, and Sunday from noon to 3:00 p.m. School groups, clubs, and students are welcome. Admission is free. For more information, please call the Jasper Arts Center at 812-482-3070.

The Krempp Gallery is managed by Jasper Community Arts, a department of the City of Jasper. JCA is supported by the Friends of the Arts, Inc., the Indiana Arts Commission, through its regional partner the Vanderburgh Community Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts