Teen Art Show 2022

On behalf of Joelle and I, we wanted to commend all artists that participated in this year’s virtual exhibition. We are both professional artists in the sense that we have managed to build our livelihood around our creative passions and the first step to becoming a “professional” is the willingness to share your work in the public realm. We applaud you on your bravery.

Judging this year’s show is both exhilarating and challenging. We were impressed with the breadth of media and scope of the work, but also enjoyed the emotional range of many of your efforts.

The criteria by which we juried the work included: composition, technical execution, concept and creativity within a medium, but also the ability for the work to communicate an emotion, a point in time, a narrative. Granted many award winning pieces exhibit a skilled technique, but we also chose work that ran the gamut of the creative endeavor. Art can be both expressive and introspective, a cathartic path rather than the goal. Sometimes the measure of success is whether the medium you are working with is speaking back to you.

Our award selections are a fraction of the work that we found to be inspirational, energetic, thoughtful, and most of all worthy of continuing the Artist’s path. You are all in the first chapters of what hopefully becomes an epic maker’s story. Good Luck!

Thanks,
Gabe