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2020 Emerson Young Artists’ Showcase

March 12 - March 28, 2020

Emerson Young Artists’ Showcase is a juried all-media exhibition of artwork created by high school students between 15 and 19 years old residing within 150 miles of the St. Louis Artists’ Guild. The annual Young Artists’ Showcase has supported artistically inclined students for over 60 years. We aim to promote a career in the visual arts while providing an opportunity to exhibit in a professional gallery.

Juror: Phil Robinson

Phil Robinson is a Chicago native who has exhibited throughout the Midwest in Chicago,Indianapolis, Memphis, and various places throughout Missouri. Robinson’s creative practice has included sculpture, installation, 3D design, and cross-disciplinary media. He has also created public artworks for numerous state and local agencies and worked as a design consultant. Robinson earned his BFA in painting and drawing at TheSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

He served as an adjunct instructor of art,and then the Henry L. and Natalie Freund Fellow of Painting, at Washington Univeristy in St. Louis before joining the University of Missouri - St. Louis. In 1998, he performed Hot Buttered Blackman for the ContemporaryArtists’ Series at the St. Louis Art Museum. In 2009, he created Ornamental Bodies forGallery 239 at Chadron State College, as wellas The Codex Project at the Contemporary Art Gallery at Florissant Valley Community College in Ferguson, Missouri. In 2010,Robinson participated in the 23rd Annual Nude show for the Kentucky Art League at Gallery 209 in Lexington, Kentucky. He also exhibited his artwork at the North FloridaCommunity College gallery in Madison,Florida in 2010.

List of Participating High Schools:

Affton High School, Brentwood High School, Central Visual & Performing Arts High School, Clayton High School, Cor Jesu Academy, De Smet Jesuit H.S., Incarnate Word Academy, John Burroughs School, Kirkwood High School, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Lafayette High School, Liberty High School, Lindbergh High School, Mehlville High School, Metro Academic and Classical High School, MICDS, Nerinx Hall High School, Oakville High School, Parkway Central High, Parkway North High School, Parkway South High School, Parkway West High School, Pattonville High School, Principia School, Salem High School, St. John Vianney High School, St. Joseph's Academy, Thomas Jefferson School, Timberland High School, Villa Duchesne High School, Whitfield School

Award Winners

Emerson Scholarship $500 BEN HERRELL Rebirth, 2019

Frani Weinstock Scholarship $500 HANNAH FINNAN Original and Best, 2019

Nada Silva Prize $250 CHLOE OUELLETTE Blue Lace Vase, 2019

Connie Hume Award $250 ISABEL ROMAN Society, 2019

Cynthia Berg Prize $150 MADDIE WINTERS It’s Me and Ray, 2019

Creigh Patrick Bisson Memorial Award $150 KATIE PROVINSE I’m No Good For You, 2019

Clay Eugene Jordan Prize $100 KATIE GRUNLER You are what you eat, 2019

William and Elaine Small Award $100 MADELYN BIRKHEAD Neuter, 2019

Joanne Stremsterfer Annual Prize $50 MAGGIE VAN EMDEN Composition 1, 2019

Viola M. Longmire Award $50 MIKE GARRETT The Oculus, 2020

Honorable mention $25 IAN ANDERSON Reach Out, 2019

Honorable mention $25 AMEEN QAZI Life and Death, 2020

Honorable mention $25 RAVEN SCHODL Silence, 2020

Honorable Mention $25 JAYDEN NORRIS Self Portrait, 2020

Important dates

Exhibition Dates: March 12–March 28, 2020

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 12, 2020, 5pm–8pm

Portfolio Review: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 7pm (must RSVP to participate) CANCELLED

Delivery of Artwork Deadline: February 28, 2020 by 6:00 pm

April 2, 2020: Begin artwork pickup. Exhibited artwork cannot be removed from the gallery until April 2, 2020. All works must be retrieved from STLAG’s galleries by April 30, 2020, or else the work will become the property of the St. Louis Artists’ Guild.

Exhibition sponsors

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