2024 Annual Juried Show

Feeling Blue: Navigating Challenges Through Art 2024 Annual Juried Show

2024 Annual Juried Show Jurors Lauren E. Peters Philadelphia-based Visual Artist

Heather Ziegenmeyer, MA LPC ATR-BC Board Certified Art Therapist & Licensed Professional Counselor Lisa Kelley Teaching Artist at Kensington Storefront and Prevention Point

Exhibiting Artists Lisa Auerbach Grace Bauder Caroline Beattie Jessica Bednarcik Reena Brooks Caleb Booth Hollie Brown Charles Compo John Costanza Kirsten Cunningham Eleanor Day Emily Ennulat-Lustine Andrea Finch Katherine Fraser Rah Gerg

Megan Giampietro Raegan Glaser Barry Good Cecelia Grant Jenna Hannum Theresa Heidig Rooney Sarah Kowalski Kendall Laurent Cony Madariaga Paula Mandel Kyle Margiotta James Anthony Mariano Denise McDaid Shane Monaghan Florence Moonan

Ginny Perry Charlese Phillips Jeni Prescott Logan Radcliff Birgit Raders-Eichinger Sondra Rosenberg Jessica Shannon Harin Song Susan Uccelletti Sharon Wensel Kathleen Wert Lisa Wilde Francesca Woolson Nina Yocom

Kyle Margiotta Anxiety Oil on wood $2,500 “My artmaking practice provides me with an outlet to express my emotions and memories. Often while I am still processing how I am going to consciously address them.”

Sarah Kowalski Samsara, 2024 Gouache, wax, and pigments on paper $350 “I began painting following two back-to-back concussions that left me unable to look at screens for months; I couldn’t drive or write without getting seasick, but I discovered I could paint. Moving a paintbrush became a daily act of faith, and the paintings themselves provided necessary visible proof that things keep changing. “

Cecelia Grant Will Not Last Like Stone, 2021 Acrylic on mylar $850 “During the 2020 Covid lockdown and subsequent years, my palette gravitated towards cool colors. These blues and greens were inspired by a scene outside my window that encapsulated the distorted sense of time I was experiencing.”

Emily Ennulat-Lustine Embracing Grief, 2023 Collagraph $1,250 “During times of grieving, loss, sorrow and depression, tender embraces become a sanctuary of solace and comfort. It is in the healing process of creating these works of deep connection, that I find calm and an ease from the ache of navigating life’s most vulnerable and emotional moments; a cathartic release allowing me to focus on the enduring bonds we shared.”

Kendall Laurent Phantom Hand, 2023 Oil on canvas $800 “Referencing my own experience with identity dysphoria, painting allows me to investigate how a person’s physical and mental presence in the world is malleable and fragile.”

Jenna Hannum Respiratory Tree, 2022 Oil, graphite, and embroider on linen NFS “These ‘histo-portraits’ combined scientific illustration and unconventional portraiture to map the biological journeys of loved ones... These new portraits on paper and linen, combinations of fine art and craft, are an elegy to the women I’ve lost and a way to retroactively be a caregiver through drawing and embroidery.“

Jenna Hannum The Dying of the Light, 2022 Oil, graphite, and embroider on linen $2,000

Sondra Rosenberg The Things John Berger Charcoal $800

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es, I have st, guiding ss of accessing age for their t practice has by that ages.“

Ginny Perry Patrice’s Melancholy, 2023 Acrylic, charcoal and pastel $1,500 “In 2017, I became a volunteer lay Chaplain at a local nursing home.

Inspired by the people I met, I began capturing images of the residents through my art... Patrice waits to hear from her daughter who she has very little contact with...[She] often feels anxious and sadness because she feel hopeless, unheard, and stuck... [she] is in her late 80’s and lives in a nursing home.”

Nina Yocom The Hardest Hope, 2023 Alcohol ink on paper $300 “I wasn’t until I met my birth mother at 21 that I learned my biological grandfather was bipolar; I was shortly thereafter diagnosed the same. I began medication management for my more severe depressive episodes... At age 50 an artist friend introduced me to a medium where I felt a natural affinity: alcohol inks.

The very first moment the inks hit paper... I was transported out of the muck and mire of depression and anxiety into the soothing, healing light of creative expression.”

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“[This painting is] an ode to m is a Hospice Nurse a generous person I know. She take care of herself, and exists in a lineage of po sleeping on the couch. This honest way to capture he moment between exhaustio

Rah Gerg sential, 2022 ylic on board $900

my Mom who and the most e struggles to this portrait ortraits of her s is the most er essence: a on and rest.”

Francesca Woolson Strike, 2023 Oil paint and oil pastels o $1,500

“I paint boiling guilty rage pain, scorched landscape symbolism. It transitions f serenity through desolati

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e, self-inflicted es, and fire as from wrath to ion.”

Charlese Philips Paper Thin, 2024 Mixed Media $850 “Color evokes an emotional response from the viewer by tapping into their subconscious memories associated with specific colors...colors can help to tell a more in depth story of the artwork allowing more ways for the viewer to emotionally connect with the various elements in the piece.”

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