Awards:  $4,000 total award money

1st  Place:  $2,000 in addition to a 2023 Solo Exhibition Invitation

2nd Place:  $1,000

3rd  Place:  $500 

Honorable Mentions: Two (2) $250 Awards

Chancellor’s Choice Purchase Award: Interim Chancellor Michelle Malott and included in the Indiana University East Public Art Collection.

 Award Winners will also receive additional special promotion.        

Entry Deadline:           September 18th, 2022

This Years Jurors:

Elizabeth M. Claffey is an Associate Professor of Photography at Indiana University in Bloomington, a 2019-20 Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction and a 2012 William J. Fulbright Fellow. She has an MFA in Studio Art from Texas Woman’s University, where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies. Before joining the faculty at IU, she participated in The Eddie Adams Workshop and freelanced for various organizations and publications including The Dallas Morning News, NBC Universal Studios, and the United Nations Women’s Fund. In 2017 her work was selected for a Center Santa Fe Director’s Choice Award by Kim Sajet of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. In 2021, she was awarded an Outstanding Junior Faculty Award and an IU Presidential Award for Research and Creative Activity. Elizabeth’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and focuses on identity, kinship, isolation, issues of the body, family history, and cultural/institutional practices.

Shaun Thomas Dingwerth is currently the Executive Director of the Richmond Art Museum (RAM), where he has been since 1998. He has organized and curated numerous art exhibitions, including several historic Indiana artists. Most recently he curated the exhibition, Impressions of Love: J. Ottis and Winifred Brady Adams and provided an essay for the corresponding exhibit catalog for the David Owsley Museum of Art’s 100th Anniversary located on the campus of Ball State University. Dingwerth is considered an authority about the Richmond Group artists. He wrote, The Richmond Art Group Artists, published by Indiana University Press, selling out of the first printing. He has also written articles in both the Plein Air Magazine and Fine Art Connoisseur over the years. Dingwerth has also given numerous lectures throughout the state about the development of the Art Association of Richmond and the Richmond Group.

Michael Goodson :

Michael Goodson first studied sculpture at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio continuing at the graduate level at Cranbrook Academy of Art. After Cranbrook Goodson moved to New York City as a practicing artist, and from 2002 to 2011 he taught sculpture, performance, and installation art at Hunter College. He began his career in the New York gallery world as a preparator at David Zwirner and eventually as manager of exhibitions at James Cohan Gallery. Goodson then returned to Ohio to serve as director of exhibitions at the Beeler Gallery at Columbus Collage of Art & Design.  In 2016 Goodson was named senior curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts. In 2020 Goodson took the position of chief curator and director of programming at The Contemporary Dayton, first presenting Nari Ward’s work We The People in the summer of 2020 while turning the galleries into a voter registration center in a collaboration with the League of Women Voters, the last exhibition in the gallery that The Contemporary Dayton had occupied for over 10 years. He organized the inaugural exhibitions in the institution’s new, multi-gallery location in April 2021 with Zachary Armstrong: Grids and Abstracts, Curtis Barnes, Sr.: Love and Peace and Cauleen Smith: Remote Viewing among others.

Eligibility

Artists must be 18 years or older and reside in Indiana or adjacent states of Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, or Michigan. All work must be original by the submitting artist and cannot have been exhibited in previous Whitewater Valley Art Competitions.

Registration Fee: $30 for up to 3 entries.

 Artists may choose to submit three different views of each art piece. Artists submitting more than 3 separate art pieces will be eliminated from consideration.

 Submission process via www.callforentry.org.

 All visual art mediums (except for video and sound) are allowed.  Examples of acceptable works include paintings, drawings, printmaking, digital artworks, photographs, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, textiles, installation,  and mixed media art pieces.

 Conditions and Rules

 By submitting work to be considered, artists grant permission to IU East Galleries to reproduce accepted artwork for promotional uses in both printed and electronic forms.

IU East will through pre-recorded & live-streamed video productions allow everyone throughout the country to view every piece of art that is accepted to our 44th Annual Whitewater Valley Art Competition.

Indiana University East Art Galleries and its staff adhere to a professional standard of art display and curatorial practices. The safety of our patrons, students, faculty, and staff is our first priority.

All 2D and 3D wall mounted work must be ready to hang and include the appropriate or specialized hardware. Work must be professionally framed, firmly wired, prepared for hanging, and professionally presented. Please refrain from using sawtooth hangers.

All reasonable care will be given to objects in the custody of the IU East Galleries. Works are insured while on exhibition in the Tom Thomas Gallery and Meijer Artway exhibition spaces. Please note that our gallery spaces do not feature constant controlled humidity. Indiana University East cannot assume responsibility for the damage or deterioration incurred before or after exhibition, or for possible loss in transit. Prices submitted will be considered as insurance value unless otherwise noted. For works to be labeled "NFS" please include an insurance value on your list of works. If the work has an insurance price of over $500 USD, any insurance claims must be accompanied by documentation or past sales or professional 3rd party appraisals.

All artwork must remain available and installed for the duration of the exhibition.

The Artist / Lender maintains all responsibility of insuring all work and accompanying materials during shipping and travel and is responsible for all associated costs. It is imperative that proper arrangements are made before the exhibition including prepayment of all return shipping costs and that work arrives just prior to installation dates. Due to limited space, we will not be able to store work for extended periods. Barring special arrangements agreed upon between the Artist/ Lender and Gallery Technician, artworks and any equipment or materials related to the installation of the show remaining on campus for more than 30 days from the closing exhibition date will become the property of Indiana University East Galleries.  Please use the following address for shipping:     

Indiana University East Galleries                                                       

Attn: Nate Kuznia, Gallery Coordinator                              

Whitewater Hall 137                                                                    

2325 Chester Blvd.      

Richmond, IN 47374

Important Dates:

September 18, 11:59pm: Deadline to submit artwork via www.callforentry.org.

 We cannot accept cash or entry fees paid through CallforEntry.org. Entry fees can be paid by calling our campus Bursar’s Office at (765) 973-8345 Monday through Friday between 9am – 11am and 1pm – 4pm, and specify the “Whitewater Valley Art Competition”.  If you pay by credit card, please enter “0000” as your check number on the website.  Entry fees can also be paid by personal check, cashier's check, or money order and sent to the following address:

Indiana University East
c/o Nate Kuznia, Gallery Coordinator
2325 Chester Blvd. 
Richmond, IN 47374

Attn: WVAC

September 30th, 2022 ; 10am –12:30pm:  Prerecorded juried rounds shared on Facebook Live. Breaks between juried rounds will allow time for live questions from the audience.

 Friday, October 7th, 5 pm: Deadline for accepted entries to be received at IU East (shipped or physically brought).

 Friday, October 14th, 6-8 pm: Artist’s reception and awards presentation, Tom Thomas Gallery @ IU East

October 14 – December 16: Whitewater Valley Art Exhibit in Tom Thomas Gallery and Meijer Artway.

 December 19 – 23, 10 am – 5pm: Exhibit artwork collected by artist or shipped back to artist with return shipping label.

 All questions should be directed toward Art Director, Carrie Longley, clongley@iue.edu.

Application Requirements

Registration Fee: $30 for up to 3 entries.

Artists may choose to submit three different views of each art piece. Artists submitting more than 3 separate art pieces will be eliminated from consideration.

 Submission process via www.callforentry.org.

Eligibility Criteria

Artists must be 18 years or older and reside in Indiana or adjacent states of Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, or Michigan. All work must be original by the submitting artist and cannot have been exhibited in previous Whitewater Valley Art Competitions.

All visual art mediums (except for video and sound) are allowed.  Examples of acceptable works include paintings, drawings, printmaking, digital artworks, photographs, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, textiles, installation,  and mixed media art pieces.