81st Annual Spring Show

The Third Rail by Jayson Bimber

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The deadline for entries to the 81st Annual Spring Show is Monday, April 5. Entries will be accepted at the Erie Art Museum Annex, 20 East 5th Street, on Saturday, March 20 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, March 27 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, April 3 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, April 4 from 1 to 5 p.m.; and Monday, April 5 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. The exhibit is open to works in all media, by artists living within 250 miles of Erie. For further information regarding entries please call 459-5477.

Gregory G. Knight serves as juror for the 81st Spring Show. Knight will give a lecture at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday, April 6 in Louis Cole Auditorium, Memorial Hall at Edinboro University. For 25 years, Knight has been with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs where he is Director of Visual Arts and Chief Curator of the exhibitions program at the Chicago Cultural Center. He holds a B.A. in art history from Arizona State University (1974) and an M.A. in art history from The University of Chicago (1978).

Knight has curated such exhibitions as Jin Soo Kim: Twenty Years, 1983-2003; John Buck: Woodblock Prints and Sculpture; Sowers of Myth: Abakanowicz, IRWIN, Jetelova, Kovacs, von Rydingsvard; and Bill Traylor Drawings. In addition to his curatorial work for the Chicago Cultural Center, Knight has curated exhibitions freelance, lectured, served as a juror for exhibitions and fellowship programs, and contributed to several different publications.

The 81st Annual Spring show will be open in the main floor galleries from April 24 through June 27. An artists’ reception will be held on Saturday, April 24 from 7 to 9:30 p.m.