Opening Reception: Members’ Show

Friday, November 22, 5:30—7:30 pm
Free and open to all

In the Small Gallery: a solo-exhibition of 2023 Best in Show winner Josy Wright

PRINTS: NATURALLY INSPIRED  

Celebrate our creative community at the annual Members’ Show!

Awards will be announced by this years’ judge Conor Moynihan, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the RISD Museum during the Opening Reception.

The annual Members’ Show features artwork created by the talented artists in the JAC community and beyond. This is a community-driven exhibition where first-time artists, emerging, and established artists exhibit alongside one another.

Best-in-Show, Second, Third Place and Honorable Mentions will be annouced during the Opening Reception. Awards are selected based on blind judging by a notable guest judge each year.

ABOUT THE JUDGE

Conor Moynihan is the Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the RISD Museum and a Visual Studies PhD candidate at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He is interested in performativity and identity-based issues, especially related to sexuality, gender, and disability. His exhibitions include Drama Queer: Seducing Social Change in 2016 (Vancouver, BC), Ill at Ease: Dis-ease in Art in 2017 (Buffalo, NY), Three Acts, Three Scenes: My Care, Your Care, Careful Care in 2018 (Brooklyn, NY), and Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability (Providence, RI), and The Performative Self-Portrait, (Providence, RI, 2023).