Deadline to Apply: October 1, 2024
The Annual Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition & Meyer Family Award for Contemporary Art, presented by Main Line Art Center, honors three artists annually with an exhibition in the Center’s gallery and an award of $1,000. This juried award and exhibition program is an effort to support talented contemporary artists, to honor deserving artists in the field, and to encourage excellence and experimentation in artistic practice, presentation and community involvement.
The exhibition will be on view at Main Line Art Center, 746 Panmure, Haverford, Pa 19104, from November 9 – December 13, 2024. All fine artists are eligible to apply. All mediums are welcome and artists are encouraged to submit work that pushes the boundaries of their medium. Artists must attend the opening reception and artist talks on the evening of Saturday, November 9 and be available to help install their work in the galleries, if necessary, between November 6 – 8.
Main Line Art Center does not ship or transport work under any circumstances. Artists are responsible for delivering their work to the gallery and retrieving their work after the exhibition. The application deadline is Tuesday, October 1, 2024.
Winning artists will be notified by Friday, October 4, 2024.
Meet our Juror: Constance McBride!
We are honored to announce that Constance McBride will be the juror for the 21st Annual Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition.
Constance McBride has been active as an artist, writer, curator and educator for over 16 years. In her work as an artist, she examines gender-based issues with ceramic sculpture and installations. She has had solo exhibitions at Abington Art Center (PA), Rehoboth Art League (DE), Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art (AZ), Shemer Art Center (AZ), Estrella Mountain Community College (AZ), Royse Contemporary Gallery (AZ) and Eye Lounge Contemporary (AZ). Her work has appeared in group shows at notable museums and galleries throughout the USA including at Phoenix Art Museum (AZ), The Delaware Contemporary (DE), Woodmere Art Museum (PA), The Clay Studio (PA) San Angelo Museum of Fine Art (TX), Las Cruces Museum of Art (NM), Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport Museum (AZ) and Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts (MT).
She has curated exhibitions for The Art Trust Gallery in West Chester, the Chester County Art Association, and for several galleries in downtown Phoenix. McBride has juried art for the Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show, the annual Congressional Art Competition, PA District 2, The Cheltenham Center for the Arts, and for several organizations in Arizona.
Recent awards include the Jacques MacCuiston Dowling Award for sculpture (Woodmere Art Museum), a Center for Emerging Visual Artists Teaching Fellowship in Philadelphia, PA, a position in the 2021 Chautauqua Visual Arts Residency Program in Chautauqua, New York and grants from The Puffin Foundation and Philadelphia Sculptors.
McBride’s work has received attention from several publications including Yahoo News (Cities Rising Series), Philly Artblog and Phoenix Magazine. As an arts writer, she has written for the online publications Chadds Ford Live and The Arts Beacon. Currently based in West Grove, PA, she teaches sculpture and hand building in Chester County and Philadelphia and is a guest host of the show Art Watch at WCHE Radio Station in West Chester. McBride earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Arcadia University, Glenside, PA.