CALL FOR ENTRY: OPEN OCTOBER 29 – DECEMBER 1
Over the years, the Women of Appalachia Project Fine Art Exhibition has presented remarkable pieces from established, emerging, and amateur artists. For the upcoming 2025 biennale, a distinguished jury will meticulously choose artwork across various mediums, to create an exhibition that showcases Appalachian women.
This show, held biennially, is organized by The Dairy Barn Arts Center in collaboration with the Women of Appalachia Project.
How to Apply:
Meet the Jurors:
Jolene Powell
Jolene Powell is a McCoy Professor of Art, and Director of Gallery 310 at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. She is an established artist with an extensive exhibition record and is currently represented by Brandt-Roberts Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. In 2021, Jolene received Marietta College’s Innovative Teaching Award, in 2018, the Edward G. Harness Outstanding Educator Award, and in 2007 the school’s highest honor, the McCoy Teaching Excellence Professorship.
As well as an artist-educator, in her role as Director of Gallery 310, her mission is to work with a variety of campus and community entities to create a space for current and relevant conversations in exhibitions such as “I Embody…” The exhibition title, and concept, stems from Adrian Piper’s 1975 piece, “I Embody Everything You Most Hate and Fear;” “People of a Darker Hue,” by MacArthur Fellow, Carrie Mae Weems, and “Privilege Audit.”
She has an MFA is from Boston University and a Diversity and Inclusion certificate from Cornell University. In 2023 she served as a juror for the Ohio Arts Council’s Biennial Exhibition at Riffe Gallery, in Columbus, OH, and in 2020 she was featured on the podcast, I Like Your Work. Her exhibitions include Weather Flux, at Reservoir Art Space in Ridgewood NY; Landscapes: Plein Air to Abstraction, Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH; Natural Expressions, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH; Landscape Real and Imagined, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, and Melange Abstract Invitational, There’s No Place Like Home, Peaks and Pinnacles, and most recently, Unearthed, all at Brandt-Roberts Gallery.
Patty Kennedy-Zafred
Patty Kennedy-Zafred has been telling stories through the medium of textiles and art quilts for over thirty years, creating thought provoking narratives using fabric, dyes, silkscreens, and ink to develop a visual dialogue with the viewer. The interpretation of each piece is conceived through the lens of individual experiences, memories, or perspectives. Her quilts marry a lifelong fascination with photography, history, and stitch, often reflecting faces of pride and dignity, sometimes under challenging circumstances.
Kennedy-Zafred’s award winning work has been exhibited in major internationally recognized exhibitions, including Quilt National, Visions, Fiberart International, Artist as Quiltmaker, CraftForms, Fantastic Fibers, Quilts=Art=Quilts, Fiber Options, Art Quilt Elements, New Legacies, Art of the State PA, and numerous juried and invitational exhibitions. Her work has won top prizes at American Quilt Society competitions and International Quilt Festival, including the prestigious Masters Award. Her work has traveled across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, China, and Australia, and is part of the permanent collections of the State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, The Clinton Library & Museum, Little Rock, AK, San Jose Museum of Textiles, CA, Heinz History Center/Smithsonian Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, as well as multiple private collections. She was recently honored as a Master Visual Artist in Pittsburgh, as part of the Arts Legacy Project.
Julie Rae Powers
Julie Rae Powers is from West Virginia and Virginia. They come from a working-class family of homemakers, teachers, coal miners, and railroad laborers. Their photographic and written work has focused on family history, coal, Appalachia, and queerness. Additionally, they are the author and editor of a forthcoming collection of Queer Appalachian photographers “Reclamation: Queering Appalachia’s Visual History” UPK ’24 and a collection of personal essays “To Thine Own Self Be True” UPK ’24.
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