79th Annual Painting Show

Welcome to the 79th Annual Juried Painting Show.  We are honored to exhibit the work of so many Philadelphia area artists.  

Juror: Jill Rupinski, 

Juror Bio: Jill A. Rupinski is a Professor in Painting and Drawing and Interim Chairperson of the Fine Arts Department at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). Jill attended PAFA, majored in painting, and received a four-year Certificate in 1977. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1981. In 2014 Jill was selected to participate in the Senior Artists Initiative Oral History Project. Her video of that project is online. Among her awards she is a 1997 recipient of the Percy Owens Memorial Award for a Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist, from the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and a 1976 William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Scholarship from PAFA. Her work is in the collections of the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Arcadia, Colgate, Villanova Universities, Pennsylvania Hospital, and the University of Pennsylvania. For the past decade Jill has participated as an instructor demonstrating her innovative techniques of Pastel painting in the Maurice River School at the Barn Studio, Millville, NJ. In 2013 and 2014 she has taught in overseas venues of Seillans, France, and the Isle of Arran, Scotland through No Boundaries Art Workshops. She is a member of the French Creek Art Colony, in Pennsylvania, which is a group of plein-air painters. Her work is represented by Cerulean Arts Gallery and Studio in Philadelphia, PA.

Congratulations to our award winners! (See slideshow below)

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