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63rd Young Arkansas Artists

May 18, 2024 – July 7, 2024

For over 60 years, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts has highlighted the remarkable talent, creativity, and perspective of Arkansas students through the Young Arkansas Artists exhibition. This legacy program showcases artwork from kindergarten through high school in a wide range of media and technique.

The 63rd Young Arkansas Artists exhibition in 2024 will continue this tradition of supporting and recognizing the power of art education and art educators across the state. In addition to the presentation of the full 65-work exhibition through an online gallery, a selection of awarded artworks from the exhibition will return to the Museum this year.

Selections from the 63rd Young Arkansas Artists exhibition will be on view from May 18, 2024, to July 7, 2024, in the Robyn and John Horn Gallery. The online gallery will go live on this page after the awards ceremony on May 18, 2024.

Please note: The submission window for this year’s exhibition has closed. Teachers with accepted artworks will be notified by April 8, 2024.

Awards

Five works per grade, totaling 65 works, will be selected for the exhibition by a panel of Museum educators and faculty. The grand juror will then select one Best in Class and two Honorable Mention awards for each grade, along with one Mid-South Watercolorists Best in Show Watercolor Award. Each winning artist’s school or program receives a monetary award to support its art program.

Best in Class

13 Best in Class winners will receive $350 for their school or program.
Honorable Mention

26 Honorable Mention winners will receive $200 for their school or program.
Best in Show Watercolor Award

1 Mid-Southern Watercolorists Best in Show Watercolor Award winner will receive $250 for their school or program.

Grand Juror Jeannie Hulen will highlight each student’s work in the exhibition, present awards, and more at the awards ceremony on May 18, 2024. Please join us to celebrate the exhibition and enjoy activities for all young artists!

Creative Saturdays

May 18, 2024
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Stop by the Windgate Art School to explore the exhibition selections, enjoy free make-and-take activities, and watch live art demonstrations.

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Awards Ceremony

May 18, 2024
11:00 a.m.

Educators, students, and their families are invited to attend an awards ceremony honoring this year’s student artists and art educators.

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About the Grand Juror

Jeannie Hulen

Professor Jeannie Hulen is the Studio Art Program Director in the School of Art at the University of Arkansas. Her past leadership roles have been Associate Dean in Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences from 2017-2023 and chair of the Department of Art.

During her administrative leadership, she stewarded historic gifts for the School of Art, including $120 million from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation and over $72 million from the Windgate Charitable Foundation, for the establishment of an endowed world-class School of Art and new state of the art facilities.

Her first appointment at the University of Arkansas as a ceramics faculty member was in 2002. She received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1995, and an MFA from Louisiana State University in 2000.

She has exhibited internationally, including many exhibitions in conjunction with the National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts.

In 2009, she was a Resident Visiting Artist at the Tainan National University of The Arts in Tainan, Taiwan. She currently has ongoing research in West Africa following her 2018-2019 US Fulbright Scholar post at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana.

62nd Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition

Get inspired for this year's exhibition by exploring last year's winning artworks.

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