Deadline is approaching!
Entry Deadline: April 5, 2024; details below or click for Minto website
Minto Juried Art Show 2024 is an annual event in Town of Minto. RUNNING from May 7TH till May 24TH, 2024. With featured artists from across Ontario, presenting an incredibly diverse mix of mediums, styles and subjects.
Minto Juried Art Show 2024 Awards Reception
The MINTO ARTS COUNCIL is very pleased to announce for the seventh time the Minto Juried Art Show. On the night of the Awards Reception the winners will be announced. The event will take place at the Minto Arts Gallery.
Apart from the money prizes, participation is the biggest award of joining the Minto Juried Art Show, that is gaining more national recognition each year.
The awards reception will be held on May 9th, from 6:30-8:00 pm.
The winners will be announced at 7 p.m., at the Minto Arts Gallery – 88 Mill St., Harriston.
Located upstairs in the Harriston Public Library
Minto Juried Art Show 2024 Awards
Sponsored by Minto Arts Council
1st Place – $200
2nd Place – $150
3rd Place – $100
Viewer’s Choice Award – $50
Privately Sponsored
Best Watercolor Award – $200.00
West Meadow Press and printmaking prize – $100.00
In an edition of 10 or more in any medium of the following media , etching, metal engraving, mezzotint, relief print, woodcut, wood engraving, silkscreen. Digital or photographic prints are accepted.
Jurors
Faith Hieblinger
Faith Hieblinger is an award winner for excellence in heritage arts and two-time nominee for the Kitchener Waterloo Arts Award.
Hieblinger studied Business at Wilfred Laurier University and has an honours fine art studio degree from University of Waterloo. Actively participating in exhibitions as curator, juror and artist throughout Southwestern Ontario and beyond.
She spent close to three decades as Executive Director/Curator of the nationally recognized Homer Watson House and Gallery. She has also curated shows with the Etobicoke Art Gallery and Art Gallery of Mississauga and is affiliated with City of Kitchener as guest curator in the Berlin Tower ARTSPACE.
Hieblinger has enjoyed working with Studio Art Quilt Associates international or SAQA, curating an exhibit that toured across Canada.
Her own artwork is exhibited with the Art District Gallery of Waterloo Region.
Scott McNichol
Scott McNichol is a successful working artist for the past 32 years in a variety of mediums such drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture. He has exhibited his works in solo and group shows from Toronto to Montreal and Buffalo, NY, with many works in both private and public collections. As a graduate of Fine Arts and Philosophy from the University of Guelph and Print Journalism from Conestoga College, McNichol has been actively curating, jurying and above all teaching visual arts. He has designed and taught children’s and adult art programs through Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge Art Galleries, as well as galleries in Stratford, Guelph, Niagara-on-the-Lake and Toronto.
For 28 years, McNichol was Associate Artist at Homer Watson House and Gallery and taught workshops and programs through Waterloo and Wellington school boards. In 2017, Scott received the Canada 150 Award of Excellence for youth arts engagement from the Government of Canada.
Currently, Scott is head of the Art Department at Scholars’ Hall Private School, which is also home to the McNichol School of Art.
Faith Hieblinger 