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Idaho artists selected for Women’s History exhibit
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Women across the country were encouraged to submit original works of art in any medium for display in the juried art exhibit in honor of Women’s History Month.
This is no ordinary exhibit, it is an art show only for women artists, and is juried, meaning the jurors who judged the work did not know the artist’s name or location.
Despite this blind judging, out of between 300-400 entries, four Idaho women were selected to exhibit their work in the SUB from March 1-22.
Over 30 pieces will be displayed in the art gallery upstairs in the Student Union.
Melissa Wintrow, Women’s Center coordinator said, “The juried exhibition was opened up nationwide this year, 106 artists entered. The jury was unbiased, but still four Idaho women were selected.”
One of the artists selected is BSU graduate student, Jaimy Stokes, who had three of her pieces selected.
Other Idaho artists selected are Andrea Sparrow, from Boise; and two Hailey residents, Kitrina Marcroft and Jennifer Galpin-Mikesh.
The exhibit was opened to all women artists, working in any medium.
The Best of Show award of $150, First Runner-up of $100, and Second Runner-Up award of $50 will be announced at the opening reception, March 8, from 5:30-7:00 p.m. in the Student Union Gallery.
The Jurors of the Art Exhibit are Alma Gomez, Diane Ronayne, and Heather Ferrell.
Gomez is an art professor at BSU. She has earned her Masters of Fine Arts and has received many art awards, including one from famous art critic Lucy Lippard. Her work has been shown across the country.
Diane Ronayne teaches photography and writing, and is listed in the Idaho Commission on the Arts.
Ronayne is currently the Boise City Arts Commissioner and co-chair of the BCAC Cultural District Committee.
She is also a founding member of the Log Cabin Literary Center as well as the Idaho Photographic Workshop.
Heather Ferrell works at the Boise Art Museum as the Associate Curator of Art.
She received her Master of Arts in Art History and Museum Studies from Case Western Reserve University in 1997.
Amy Wegner
