31st Annual Omer T. Lassonde Open Juried Exhibition Call for Art

The New Hampshire Art Association is holding a call for
art for their 31st Annual Omer T. Lassonde Open Juried Exhibition. This exhibition is open to all artists in New Hampshire and Southern Maine. All mediums accepted.

For the first time this exhibition will have a theme: Live Free
or Die. No
other state motto has captured the popular imagination like New Hampshire's.
The bold, assertive phrase that greets you the minute you cross the border into
New Hampshire can be found emblazoned on everything from license plates to pint
glasses and has inspired the titles of countless books, films, advertising
slogans, and even an episode of The Sopranos. This exhibition seeks works of
art across all media that engage with and interpret this iconic phrase within
the context of our contemporary moment. What does it mean to "Live Free or
Die" in 2017 in New Hampshire, in the United States, in the world? Does it
mean the freedom to expressively move paint across a canvas or the freedom to
capture your vision through the camera lens or molded clay?

This year’s juror is Gordon
Dearborn Wilkins who joined the Peabody Essex Museum as an Assistant Curator
for Exhibitions and Research in 2015. Wilkins received his BA in Art History summa
cum laude from Hamilton College, writing his senior thesis on Marsden Hartley
and the marketing of Maine. He earned his MA in Art History from the University
of Chicago, where his thesis examined the construction of a Maine folk in fine
and vernacular art during the 1930s. He has worked as a Curatorial Research
Assistant at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, as well as a
Curatorial/Registration Department Intern at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts
Institute Museum of Art. He has also been a visiting student at the Ecole du
Louvre in Paris as well as an intern at the Mona Bismarck American Center for
Art and Culture in Paris, where he worked on a major Wyeth Family exhibition.

 Three prizes
will be awarded: First place, $1000; Second place, $800; Third place $550.

Submissions to be submitted online by
March 12 at 5 p.m. Go to www.nhartassociation.org
for a prospectus and entry form.

The exhibition will run from April 5-29,
with an opening reception and awards ceremony on April 7, 5-8 p.m. The Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery is located at 136
State Street, Portsmouth. For information call 603-431-4230, email
nhartassociation@gmail.com or go to www.nhartassociation.org.