2025 JURIED EXHIBIT
The 2025 41st Annual Juried Exhibit is online beginning November 3rd, 2025.
The jury viewed 352 collages and assemblages, entered from 35 states and 3 countries. Sixty two pieces were selected for this exhibit.
Jeff Katzin, Ph.D.
Akron, OH
Dr. Jeffrey Katzin is Senior Curator at the Akron Art Museum. He specializes in modern and contemporary art, with research spanning painting, photography, film, and video. Katzin has received a certificate in Art Museum Studies from Smith College, a BA from Wesleyan University, an MA from the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Todd Bartel, M.F.A
Watertown, MA
Todd Bartel, a dedicated collage-based artist since 1983, is a teacher, curator, writer, and historian of collage. His studio practice examines the roles of landscape and nature in contemporary culture.
Andrea Burgeay, B.F.A
Brooklyn, NY
Andrea Burgay creates collage-based works and collaborative projects that explore paper and print media as sites of communaresonance and exchange, tracing cycles of destruction and renewal through their transformation. She is the founder and editor of Cut Me Up Magazine, a curatorial project that invites readers to respond to published artworks by reimagining and reshaping them, creating an ongoing visual dialogue.
Awards Judge - Anderson Turner, M.F.A.
Anderson Turner currently serves as the Director of Exhibitions & Collections for the Kent State University School of Art.
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Diane Anglim | Grand Junction, CO
The Guardian
paper mache, metal, wood, acrylic, tissue paper
20.5 x 9.25 x 10.5
$700 -

Debra Arter | Damariscotta, ME
Truth Dissection
collage with book spine, paint, sewing and graphite
16 × 16
$500 -

Gary Barton | Provo, UT
Personal Notes Reused, Reorganized, and Redacted #26
collage and mixed media
11.5 × 8
$750 -

Helen Becker | Lamy, NM
Reveal
Acrylic collage painting on wood panel
30 × 40
$2,100 -

Tom Calenberg | Durango, CO
House of Cranes
chopsticks and slats, Japanese and custom origami papers
21 × 12 × 10
$785 -

Lou Camerato | Akron, OH
Bullseye - The Arms Race
a narrative woven through found objects and meticulously choreographed
18 × 18 × 10
$400 -

Lynne Conrad Marvet | Seattle, WA
Sinewy Pathways
collage & markers on black handmade paper
11 × 8.5
$155 -

Pál Csaba | Budapest, Hungary
Emptiness 01
29.7 cm x 21 cm
collage, mixed on paper
NFS -

Deborah Dana | Denver, CO
Beyond The Pale
mixed media/collage
14 × 11
$600 -

John Diephouse | Lansing, MI
Mass Transit (Exodus)
collage on metal
24 × 36
$900 -

Ben DiNino | Minneapolis, MN
Bully Target
vintage papers, tape, crayon, spray paint, and an acrylic printed negative
33 x 27.5
$500 -

Sharon Dundee | Lyndhurst, OH
HOME
mixed media/collage
22 × 22
NFS -

Janas Durkee | Orlando, FL
Saddle up at Daybreak
cut paper
16 × 16
$650 -

Shirley Ende-Saxe | Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Sophonisba's Garden
art history reproductions, antique, and other papers.
12 × 8
$400 -

Kathy Ferguson | Edwards, CO
Falling Apart
acrylic, paper, and graphite
20 × 20
$700 -

Jan Filarski | Ray, MI
Elegance
woven painting attached to canvas
36 × 36
$2,000 -

Torea Frey | Clackamas, OR
Rainbow Connection
vintage books, chipboard, Scotch glue
18 × 18
NFS -

Rebecca Ganz | Tucson, AZ
Memories Abroad
mixed media collage on canvas
40 × 16
$500 -

Amanda Gautreaux | Houma, LA
Caught Bayou
collage on board, map, decorative paper, magazine pages
12 × 6
$150 -

Gayle Gerson | Grand Junction, CO
Bridge
gel print photo transfers and found images on an LP record cover
12 × 12
$500 -

Elizabeth Gorn | Tappahannock, VA
Canvas of Intentions
collage/torn newspaper, painted paper cut strips, paint
20 × 16
$450 -

Susan Grinels | Lander, WY
If Wishes Were Horses
acrylic mixed media collage
6 × 6
$400 -

Susan Hart | Cozad, NE
Stone Speaks, Earth Embraces
acrylic, pencil, conte crayon, hand-stained papers, string
10 × 11
$400 -

David Johnson | Skaneateles, NY
Bill
acrylic, paper, cardboard, ephemera, and household on canvas
30 x 30
$3,800 -

Mekhi Kalil | Auburn, AL
Porsche No.2
found ephemera collage
16 x 12
$425 -

lynne kroll | Parkland, FL
She Tree
collage
21 x 19
$800 -

Louise Lachance | Quebec, Canada
Steps Beyond the Misty Shore
collage and acrylic
14 x 14
$1,200 -

Laura Lein-Svencner | Darien, IL
Compiled Shapes
altered papers, acrylic paints
18 x 18
$295 -

Tanya Lieberman | Davis, CA
Mushroom Paper - Mycelium I handmade paper from phaeolus schweinitzii mushroom
12 x 12
$300 -

Denise Lindgren | Richardson, TX
St. Xavier's Signatures Box
ollage of original vintage signatures on wood panel
40 x 40
NFS -

Dannell MacIlwraith | Emmaus, PA
Extinction in View Passenger Pigeon
paper collage
36 x 36
NFS -

Dennis Mastrangelo | Mentor, OH
Morning Sail
cut paper collage
20 x 24
$400 -

Pat Mayer | Redwood City, CA
Bouquet
various papers on wood panel
12 x 12
$300 -

Janice McDonald | Denver, CO
Inventory of Possibilities
torn paper fragments from a single-page advertisement
14 x 11
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Michael McFadden | Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Collage 3409)
vintage gay porn, hunting, floral and fauna magazine
10 x 8
$400 -

Melanie Mills | Savannah, GA
Regulated #3
mixed media collage
13 x 5.5
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Carol Mullen | Albuquerque, NM
I Saw You Dancing in the Meadow
collage
10 x 8
$1,200 -

Laurie Newman | Rutherford, NJ
Flourishing
paper collage
11 x 9 Inches
$125 -

Jan Noden | Ravenna, OH
Effervescent Moment
paintings, photos, prepared papers, leaf
22.75 x 11.50
NFS -

John Nyberg | Tucson, AZ
Wall Collage
paint peels and found objects
48 x 48
NFS -

kasandra pantoja | Orange, NJ
The Heavy Lifting
fabric, cowrie shells on canvas
36 x 24
NFS -

Cynthia Petry | Ashland, OH
Unknown Series_Thinking of the Skates Family 1870
found photos, knives, and beeswax
10 x 9 x 3
NFS -

Virginia Primozic | Gallup, NM
Slow Horses
paper on canvas
24 x 18
$850 -

Trey Reis | Des Moines, IA
Mimoids
paper collage
16 x 12
$350 -

Bonnie Ruttan | Palm Springs, CA
By the Sea
deconstructed book materials
6 Inches 6 Inches
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Patricia Schroeder | Cleveland Heights, OH
Nothing but the Blues
paper, fabric, and paint
16 x 9
$950 -

Mary Ann Sedivy | Newbury, OH
Blue
hand-painted papers
24 x 24
$800 -

Shelley Smolen | Houston, TX
Fatherhood
cut scraps of my drawings, paintings, wood veneer, and my daughter's scribbles in select sections
24 x 24 Inches
$1,000 -

Emily Sortor | Wilmington, DE
Horizon Line
handmade paper, machine-made paper, ink, acrylic, mod podge
15.15 x 11
$1,500 -

Nancy Sotka | Cleveland Heights, OH
The Pith
vintage ephemera, acrylic paint
18 x 24
$350 -

Claire Standish | Uniontown, PA
Right Where You Are
vintage and painted papers
11.75 x 8.75
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Vanessa Svihla | Albuquerque, NM
Intersect I
liquid watercolor papers, alcohol ink on vellum, and citrasolved National Geographic pages on cradled wood board
12 x 12
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Erica Trabold | Lynchburg, VA
Toast with Jam and Almonds
collage, book, and magazine pages
9.75 x 7.75
$350 -

ZK Truth | Salisbury Mills, NY
Fastbreak
collage
12 x 12
$5,000 -

Michele Unger | Edmonds, WA
The Long Way Round
found magazine image, hand-painted and inked papers, digitally printed paper, and commercial paper
11.4 x 14.25 Inches
NFS -

john vinklarek | San Angelo, TX
Concussion
collage
30 x 22
$700 -

Miranda Vitello | Cambridge, MA
Plessy vs Ferguson Mural, New Orleans
gouache, collage
11 x 14 Inches
NFS -

Gwen Waight | Peninsula, OH
Bird is the Word
organic materials, wood filigree, utilitarian objects, chain, a car emblem, an alarm bell, candy wrapper foil
24 x 10 x 3
NFS -

Kate Widmer | Fate, TX
Eat Me (Part Two)
vintage images and illustrations, pencil, crayon, and UHU glue on hardcover.
11 x 8.5
$250 -

Helen Wilson | Akron, OH
Grassland Vessel-Sanctuary
paper mache, acrylics, unryu paper
6 x 7 x 7
NFS -

Lauren Yandell | Pearland, TX
He Can Fly
collage, oil paint, acrylic paint, tape and rock on panel
12 x 9
$500 -

Brandi Young | Shoreline, WA
Summer of ‘67
painted paper collage, acrylic paint
20 x 20
NFS