Current Exhibit
Exhibit of Excellence
Feb. 4-28, 2025
The purpose of this exhibit is to display the BEST artwork from Suffolk’s 9-12th grade students.
The Exhibit of Excellence will recognize the talent of these students, encourage them, and promote them and their work.
Eligible students: 9th - 12th-grade students who live or attend school in Suffolk for the ‘24-’25 School Year including Homeschool students. Students do not need to be enrolled in art classes to be eligible.
Awards:
Best in Show: $200/ given in honor of Dana Adams
First Place: $150
Second Place: $100
Third Place: $75
Honorable Mention: $20/each
2025 Exhibit of Excellence Winners
Best in Show:
Kiley Whitworth “Self-Portrait” NRHS
First Place:
Mackenzie Moore “Power Corrupts” NRHS
Second Place:
Jayden Kebe “Self-Portrait” NRHS
Third Place:
Isabella Burton “Wheels on the Canvas” NSA
Honorable Mention:
Emiah Keene “Our Blood is on your Hands” KFHS
Jossy Byars “The Man in the Moon” NSA
Nevaeh Greene “Vaeh” KFHS
Kylie Palowski “Davion” NRHS
Twyla Mitchell “Clown” NRHS
Madison Goodwin “Walk in the Garden” NSA
Juror’s Choice:
Leina White “Bull O’Dreary” LHS
Samantha Ilich “Marlow” NRHS
Sanaa Darden “Sanaa” KFHS
Elizabeth Jenkins “Self-Portrait” NRHS
Ethan Hicks “Mask Off” NSA
Aden Woods “arMEageddon” NRHS
Kiley Whitworth “Passage” NRHS
Juror
Christina Rupsch
As a resident of Suffolk for the past twenty-five years Christina Rupsch has enjoyed participating in the local and regional art community. She moved to Virginia after she earned her B.S. in Visual Art from the University of Wisconsin, a Ed.M. in Special Education from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and finally earned her M.F.A. in Drawing and Painting at Southern Illinois at Carbondale. She has taught at most of the institutions of higher learning in this region including Norfolk State University, Old Dominion University, The Governor’s School of Fine Arts, and served as the Director of the Visual Arts Center and Program at TCC for seven years. Additionally, she spent many years serving as the Chair of the Visual Arts Department at Chowan University and most recently served as the Dean of Fine and Applied Arts at Chowan before her retirement. Chris has been a member of the Suffolk Art League since 1994 and currently serves on the Suffolk Fine Arts Commission. As a 2D artist, she works primarily in painting, printmaking, and mixed media.
Artwork will be on display for the duration of the show and must be picked up by March 4, 2025.
Feb. 4-28, 2025
The purpose of this exhibit is to display the BEST artwork from Suffolk’s 9-12th grade students.
The Exhibit of Excellence will recognize the talent of these students, encourage them, and promote them and their work.
Eligible students: 9th - 12th-grade students who live or attend school in Suffolk for the ‘24-’25 School Year including Homeschool students. Students do not need to be enrolled in art classes to be eligible.
Awards:
Best in Show: $200/ given in honor of Dana Adams
First Place: $150
Second Place: $100
Third Place: $75
Honorable Mention: $20/each
2025 Exhibit of Excellence Winners
Best in Show:
Kiley Whitworth “Self-Portrait” NRHS
First Place:
Mackenzie Moore “Power Corrupts” NRHS
Second Place:
Jayden Kebe “Self-Portrait” NRHS
Third Place:
Isabella Burton “Wheels on the Canvas” NSA
Honorable Mention:
Emiah Keene “Our Blood is on your Hands” KFHS
Jossy Byars “The Man in the Moon” NSA
Nevaeh Greene “Vaeh” KFHS
Kylie Palowski “Davion” NRHS
Twyla Mitchell “Clown” NRHS
Madison Goodwin “Walk in the Garden” NSA
Juror’s Choice:
Leina White “Bull O’Dreary” LHS
Samantha Ilich “Marlow” NRHS
Sanaa Darden “Sanaa” KFHS
Elizabeth Jenkins “Self-Portrait” NRHS
Ethan Hicks “Mask Off” NSA
Aden Woods “arMEageddon” NRHS
Kiley Whitworth “Passage” NRHS
Juror
Christina Rupsch
As a resident of Suffolk for the past twenty-five years Christina Rupsch has enjoyed participating in the local and regional art community. She moved to Virginia after she earned her B.S. in Visual Art from the University of Wisconsin, a Ed.M. in Special Education from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and finally earned her M.F.A. in Drawing and Painting at Southern Illinois at Carbondale. She has taught at most of the institutions of higher learning in this region including Norfolk State University, Old Dominion University, The Governor’s School of Fine Arts, and served as the Director of the Visual Arts Center and Program at TCC for seven years. Additionally, she spent many years serving as the Chair of the Visual Arts Department at Chowan University and most recently served as the Dean of Fine and Applied Arts at Chowan before her retirement. Chris has been a member of the Suffolk Art League since 1994 and currently serves on the Suffolk Fine Arts Commission. As a 2D artist, she works primarily in painting, printmaking, and mixed media.
Artwork will be on display for the duration of the show and must be picked up by March 4, 2025.
Artist Entry Fee $10 for your participation in our fine art fundraiser. This fee will ensure your space for 3 original artworks in our Mini M'Art art sale. 2-D works will meet our size restriction of 8x8 inches. 3-D works no larger than 8 inches. All artworks MUST fit within the size restrictions, if framed, the frame cannot exceed 8 inches square.
All artworks will be sold for $75. Each piece sold will be split 70% Artist and 30% SAL. Proceeds from the artwork sales will go towards our children's summer programs, Art Camps, and $1 Art Days. The submission deadline is April 13, 2025. Artwork drop off April 22-27.
Click here for canvases: https://www.jerrysartarama.com/paramount-professional-gallery-wrap-canvas
All artworks will be sold for $75. Each piece sold will be split 70% Artist and 30% SAL. Proceeds from the artwork sales will go towards our children's summer programs, Art Camps, and $1 Art Days. The submission deadline is April 13, 2025. Artwork drop off April 22-27.
Click here for canvases: https://www.jerrysartarama.com/paramount-professional-gallery-wrap-canvas
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31 Women
Inspired by the First U.S. All-Women’s Exhibition (1943)
May 17, 2025 – June 14, 2025
Suffolk Art Gallery
118 Bosley Avenue, Suffolk, Va. 23434
Theme: The Suffolk Art Gallery and Suffolk Art League are teaming up for a spring exhibition inspired by the first all-women’s exhibition in the United States, 31 Women, organized by Peggy Guggenheim in 1943. Although it has been over 80 years since Guggenheim’s seminal show, less than 15% of exhibitions at major U.S. museums in the last decade were of work by women artists.
Suffolk’s version of 31 Women aims to feature work by 31 of the most innovative women creating art in the Mid-Atlantic today. We welcome artists working in a diverse range of media who are breaking new ground in their approach to form, content, and ideas. This exhibition will highlight the rich breadth of talent by women artists.
31 Women will also pay tribute to Suffolk’s visionary artist Judith Godwin, known for her Abstract Expressionist paintings and involvement in the New York art scene of the 1950s and 60s. Godwin’s painting Red Support No. 15, acquired by the City of Suffolk in 1988, will be on view for a limited time during the exhibition.
Fees: Artists may submit up to three (3) entries for a one-time, non-refundable $35 entry fee. Fees can be paid through Café.
Juror Bio: Blythe King leads a diversified life in the arts. She works as an educator, mentor, collaborator, program director, and practicing artist. Blythe’s work is exceptional for its moving revelations in image transfer, collage, and the ancient art of gold leafing as she deconstructs images of women through the lens of Zen Buddhist practice. Her work has exhibited regularly throughout Virginia and beyond. In 2021, Blythe launched Open Space Education in response to the growing need for equitable access to nature, art education, and alternative modes of learning for Richmond youth. Blythe’s academic background combines an MA in Buddhism and Art from the University of Colorado, with undergraduate studies in Japanese religion and art at the University of Richmond. She currently serves as President on the board of Richmond Zen.
See full prospectus below
31 Women
Inspired by the First U.S. All-Women’s Exhibition (1943)
May 17, 2025 – June 14, 2025
Suffolk Art Gallery
118 Bosley Avenue, Suffolk, Va. 23434
Theme: The Suffolk Art Gallery and Suffolk Art League are teaming up for a spring exhibition inspired by the first all-women’s exhibition in the United States, 31 Women, organized by Peggy Guggenheim in 1943. Although it has been over 80 years since Guggenheim’s seminal show, less than 15% of exhibitions at major U.S. museums in the last decade were of work by women artists.
Suffolk’s version of 31 Women aims to feature work by 31 of the most innovative women creating art in the Mid-Atlantic today. We welcome artists working in a diverse range of media who are breaking new ground in their approach to form, content, and ideas. This exhibition will highlight the rich breadth of talent by women artists.
31 Women will also pay tribute to Suffolk’s visionary artist Judith Godwin, known for her Abstract Expressionist paintings and involvement in the New York art scene of the 1950s and 60s. Godwin’s painting Red Support No. 15, acquired by the City of Suffolk in 1988, will be on view for a limited time during the exhibition.
Fees: Artists may submit up to three (3) entries for a one-time, non-refundable $35 entry fee. Fees can be paid through Café.
Juror Bio: Blythe King leads a diversified life in the arts. She works as an educator, mentor, collaborator, program director, and practicing artist. Blythe’s work is exceptional for its moving revelations in image transfer, collage, and the ancient art of gold leafing as she deconstructs images of women through the lens of Zen Buddhist practice. Her work has exhibited regularly throughout Virginia and beyond. In 2021, Blythe launched Open Space Education in response to the growing need for equitable access to nature, art education, and alternative modes of learning for Richmond youth. Blythe’s academic background combines an MA in Buddhism and Art from the University of Colorado, with undergraduate studies in Japanese religion and art at the University of Richmond. She currently serves as President on the board of Richmond Zen.
See full prospectus below
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