The Juried Visual Art Exhibition showcases exceptional new art by regional artists and is one of the pillars for the Festival’s high-quality visual arts offerings. The exhibition will take place in SPACE Gallery (812 Liberty Avenue) in the Cultural District during the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, June 2 – 11, 2023.
The theme for the 2023 Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Visual Art Exhibition is "Taking Up Space"
"Taking up space means embodying the ability and perception that I can show up in whatever way I choose–verbally, physically, emotionally." — Kennedy Yanko
Taking up space is both a physical and psychological action. It can also be emotional, and relational. This exhibition considers the idea of taking up space and aims to highlight the ways in which artists choose to take up space within their own individual practices. This could include the use of scale as a means to take up space in the literal sense, to create works that are challenging, political in nature, or rooted in advocacy and social justice, or works that are identity-based. We ask artists to reckon with the difficulties with taking up space - the ways in which we are made to feel unworthy or undeserving and reflect on how artmaking can function as something that challenges that very notion, while considering their own practices in the context of taking up space.
2023 Award Winners
2023 Best in Show
Evangeline Mensah-Agyekum, Lorica (self portrait)
2023 Juror Awards
Steve Alexis - Jennifer Shin, How do you welcome yourself?
Lexi Bishop - Dyvika Peel, Weight Room
Tara Fay Coleman - Payton Brown, Hotel Flamingo
Jillian Daniels - Abbi Ruppert, You won't find me here
2023 People's Choice
William Karaffa, Punish ME
2023 Artists
Tom Aul
Jaime Bird
Benjamin Brady
Crystal Brown
Payton Brown
Cheryl Capezzuti
Lindsey Coffman
Jen Costello
Kennedy Deen
Kirsten Ervin
Teal Fitzpatrick
Jeanne Glanville
Howard Goldfarb
Alyssa Kail
William Karaffa
Jacquet Kehm
Lee Kennedy
Gadi Leshem & Annie Heisey
Naomi Lees Maiberg
Evangeline Mensah-Agyekum
Dyvika Peel
Abbi Ruppert
Ethan Samaha
Jiana Schemm
Brian Sesack
Jennifer Shin
Hillary Steffes
Zim Syed
James Tobin
Bradley Weyandt
2023 Jurors
Steve Alexis
Lexi Bishop
Tara Fay Coleman
Jillian Daniels
