2019 Open Juried Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: April 5 – June 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, April 5th, 5:30 to 8:30pm

The Vermont Center for Photography is proud to announce its 2019 Open Juried Exhibition – on display from April 5th through June 2, 2019 with an opening reception on Friday April 5th during Gallery Walk. This exhibition features a broad range of photographic work, including both traditional and non-traditional approaches to photography. Guest juror Bruce Myren has selected eight artists for exhibition, listed below.

Artists Chosen for Exhibition:
Tom Condon  (Johnson, VT)
Elizabeth Ellenwood  (Pawcatuck, CT)
Madge Evers  (Haydenville, MA)
Forrest Holzapfel  (Marlboro, VT)
Tira Khan  (Newton, MA)
Marc Newton  (Binghamton, NY)  Juror’s Choice Award
Craig Schwanfelder  (Santa Cruz, CA)
Dawn Watson  (Hastings on Hudson, NY)

Awards
One Juror’s Choice Award will be chosen by Bruce Myren and will receive a $250 award. Additionally, one artist will be selected by our Director, Joshua Farr, to receive a solo exhibition of their work at VCP in 2020 (scheduling and details to be worked out between VCP and the artist).

Catalog
In conjunction with the exhibition, the selected works will be published in a professionally designed limited edition exhibition catalog which will be available for purchase on and after the opening of the exhibition. Copies of these catalogs are also dispersed to local and regional public and university libraries.

About the Juror

Bruce Myren is an artist and photographer based in Cambridge, MA. He holds a BFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and earned his MFA in studio art from the University of Connecticut, Storrs in 2009. Shown nationally and published internationally, Myren’s work has been featured in Fraction Magazine, afterimage, and View Camera Magazine as well as group exhibitions at the Phoenix Art Museum, RISD Museum’s Chace Center, Houston Center of Photography, and the William Benton Museum of Art, among others. His numerous solo exhibitions include showings at the University of the Arts, Danforth Museum of Art, and Gallery Kayafas in Boston, where he is represented. In 2012, he launched a successful Kickstarter fundraiser to complete his project “The Fortieth Parallel” and it has since been highlighted in the Huffington Post, Petapixel, Slate, Slate France, and the Discovery Channel online. Myren has presented on panels at the national conferences of the College Art Association and the Society for Photographic Education, spoken at colleges across the country as a visiting artist, and served as a juror for exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography and Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Festival. He is a recipient of a 2014 Cambridge Arts Council Grant. Currently, Myren works at the Boston Public Library’s Digital Lab and Palm Press and teaches at Fitchburg State University. He has taught at Amherst College, the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and Northeastern University. He was the Chair of the Northeast Region of the Society for Photographic Education from 2010-2016, and was on the board of directors of the Photographic Resource Center.