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Founded in 1912, the Newport Art Museum is one of the oldest continuously operating and most highly regarded art museums and schools of its kind in the country.
The Newport Art Museum’s collection consists of approximately 3,000 works of art in a range of media including works on paper (prints, drawings, watercolors, and photographs), paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, installation works, and textiles and is expanding to include new media. Concentrated on American art and contemporary art, the Museum’s collection includes works of art from the 18th century to present.
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For over 30 years, the Newport Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition has been a highly anticipated event by artists, curators and collectors in Rhode Island and beyond.
This year, the Newport Art Museum is excited to expand the entry to artists throughout New England (Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine), showcasing an eclectic, regional survey of artworks in various mediums.
We’re very pleased to announce that Dr. Sharon Matt Atkins, Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Brooklyn Museum, served as our 2020 exhibition juror.
In addition to selecting featured artists for The Newport Annual exhibition, the juror also awarded the following prizes:
Best In Show: Elizabeth Duffy
2nd Place: Judy Haberl
3rd Place: Susan Lapides
Members’ Prize: Kathy Hodge
Elisa Adams Julie Angela Theresa Penny Ashford Robert Avakian Reenie Barrow Beth Braganca Bell Meg Birnbaum Susan Cabral Susan Clinard Robin Crocker Jennifer Day Linda DiFrenna Elizabeth Duffy Kara Dunne James Dye Elizabeth Ellenwood Susan Emmerson Mark Eshbaugh Kendra Ferreira Gail Fischer Ted Foster Ethan French Ira Garber Jodie Goodnough Deborah Goudreault Krista Guerin Paula Guida Judy Haberl Natasha Harrison William Heydt Kathy Hodge Abby Lammers Susan Lapides Louise Laplante Frank Lotito Soraya Lutes JR Lynch Jodi Manca Brittany Marcoux Brian McClear Paul Michael Dora Millikin Tim Nighswander Kat O’Connor Whitney Overocker Michael Peters Diana Barker Price Alicia Renadette Claudia Ruiz-Gustafson Michael Seamans Nancy Sepe Janice Smyth Tony Sullivan Roberta Uhlman Jenny Walker
Since joining the Brooklyn Museum in 2009, Sharon Matt Atkins has held the roles of Managing Curator of Exhibitions and, now, Director of Curatorial Affairs. At the Brooklyn Museum, she most recently organized Iggy Pop Life Class by Jeremy Deller (2016), Stephen Powers: Coney Island Is Still Dreamland (To a Seagull) (2015) and FAILE: Savage/Sacred Young Minds (2015). In 2014, she organized Swoon: Submerged Motherlands, as well as the Brooklyn presentation of Ai Weiwei: According to What?. In 2012, she co-organized GO: a community-curated open studio project with Shelley Bernstein. She has also coordinated exhibitions devoted to Andy Warhol and Norman Rockwell, and has facilitated numerous other special exhibitions. Before her move to Brooklyn, Atkins was the Assistant Curator at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire. Previously, she held positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. Atkins received an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
This exhibition is made possible by your contributions to the Annual Fund.