Member Art Show 2023

We are thrilled to announce that this year’s 2023 Annual Member Art Show will now coincide with the 2023 Brown County Art Colony Weekend, Sept 9^th-10^th.

The is the 11^th year for our Member Art Show and the 4^th year in a row that it will be held at the Brown County Art Gallery, in the Bob and Barbara Stevens Art Education Studio.

The Art Colony Weekend is a well-established marquee seasonal event that celebrates the rich history and enduring artistic community present, in Brown County. It is our hope that by hosting our member art show during this time we will increase participation and visibility of the show as well as the mission of the Friends of T.C. Steele.

In addition to a new show date, we have expanded our categories, delineating between professional and amateur artists, and have also increased the opportunity for prizes. We are also continuing with our student category again this year – which we hope to expand.

Finally, we are excited to announce that the judge for this year’s Annual Member Art Show will be Tim Kennedy – Senior Lecturer of Painting at Indiana University. You can visit his website here.

judge’s bio

Kennedy has received individual artist grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Indiana Arts Commission, the Arts Council of Indianapolis and the Clark Hulings Fund. His work has been reviewed in The New York Sun, The New York Observer and the Indianapolis Star. Articles on his work have appeared in The Artist’s Magazine, American Artist Magazine, Watercolor Magazine and an interview with him was featured on Larry Groff’s blog Painting Perceptions. He exhibits his work at First Street Gallery in New York where he has had seven solo exhibitions.

Kennedy is a Senior Lecturer of Painting at Indiana University in Bloomington where he has taught since 2000. He previously held an Assistant Professor position at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan and was a Visiting Artist at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1997. During the summer of 2015 he co-taught  the workshop Tonal Painting / Modernist Grid with the artist Eve Mansdorf at the Jerusalem Studio School in Civita Castellana in Civita Castellana, Italy.

Tim Kennedy primarily works with material from the observed world. His work embraces all of the genres, but he has repeatedly returned to themes of the figure found in domestic interior and landscape settings. Most of his work is done from observation and directly from the motif.

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