SAAC welcomes nationally recognized artist and curator Teresa Booth Brown as juror for this summer’s Juried Art Competition. The South Arkansas Arts Center hosts a biennial Juried Art Competition offering a chance for artists from across the nation to enter their work in an exhibition selected by a leader in the current art world. The juror for the 2026 exhibition is Teresa Booth Brown, who has been a teaching artist since 1985, comes to us most recently from Aspen Art Museum in Colorado. The exhibition will be on view in the Merkle and Price Galleries June 4 through 27, with an artist reception on the evening of the 27th, at 5:30 p.m.

Teresa Booth Brown is an artist and educator who served as the Director of Education and Community Programs for the Aspen Art Museum from 2022-2025. Previously she was the Artist Programs Coordinator and created the Aspen Art Museum Artist Fellowship. Teresa studied at the Portland Art Museum’s Museum Art School, and at Reed College, subsequently graduating from Bennington College. She has been awarded artist residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, the Ucross Foundation, Shark’s Ink, the American Academy in Rome, the Campo Artist Colony in Uruguay, La Napoule Art Foundation in the South of France, and Gullkistan Center in Iceland. In 2020 she received the Marion International Fellowship Grant, in 2022 the Art Base Achievement in the Arts Award, and in 2023 an Inaugural City of Aspen Cultural Vibrancy Fellowship Grant.

Teresa has been a teaching artist since 1985. She has had eighteen solo shows, has shown in numerous group shows, and has worked with artists and students nationally and internationally at the Aspen International Design Conference, Aspen Ideas Festival, the Denver Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Bennington College, the Yale School of Art, and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center where she was summer faculty and held the position of interim Director of Painting and Printmaking in 2017.

Teresa will select the works to be included in the 2026 SAAC Juried Art Competition from entries from across the country, with $2000 in prize money available. She will join us at SAAC for the artist reception and awards presentation, to trade inspiration and insights with the participating artists and patrons. Artists may submit any number of entries via digital image on SAAC’s online entry form. Each submission is $10. To enter artwork in any fine art medium, visit the Juried Art Competition Online Entry Form.

The deadline for artist entries into the competition is Wednesday, April 29. For more full details about SAAC’s Juried Art Competition, please visit the prospectus page for SAAC Juried Art Competition Prospectus.

While at SAAC, Teresa will lead “Drawing Foundations and Experiments,” a three-day workshop designed to help artists and creative improve this important visual skill. “We will build a stronger drawing foundation for all kinds of creative practice through this three-day workshop,” says Teresa.“Drawing Foundations and Experiments explores multiple methods for an in-depth understanding of drawing. Both traditional and experimental drawing techniques will be investigated to bring new approaches to personal practice.”

The workshop will meet from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday-Sunday, June 26-28. Limited to only 15 participants, the small group will work directly with Teresa each day, with materials provided by SAAC. Students will learn a variety of drawing techniques, including life drawing. Registration is $300 for current SAAC members, or $325 for new patrons which includes the workshop and a one-year SAAC membership. Registration Link

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