Compendium: SELF, a Juried Exhibition

October 19 – January 1, 2025 2024-10-19 09:00:00 2025-01-01 09:00:00 15 Compendium: SELF, a Juried Exhibition https://www.artsquest.org/event/16386/compendium-self-a-juried-exhibition/ Crayola Gallery true MM/DD/YYYY
Venue: Crayola Gallery

FREE

This exhibition will be closed to the public for voting from November 4-6.

Compendium: Self, ArtsQuest's eighth annual Compendium juried exhibition, features artists living within the Lehigh Valley where we ask the artist to become the subject! This year’s exhibition will feature a wide range of styles and mediums celebrating the art of the self-portrait. The work may be a traditional portrait, it may represent a personal narrative, how the artist relates themselves to the world around them, how they are perceived by others, etc. The exhibition aims to celebrate the idea of personal narratives and images and how artists create these narratives in visual form.

Awards will be announced at the opening First Friday on Friday, November 1, 2024

Compendium: SELF is juried by artist and arts administrator, Meg Wolensky (they/she).

Originally from West Chester, Pennsylvania, Meg Wolensky (they/she) is a queer nonbinary visual artist based in Philadelphia. Meg performs oil painting as a healing practice as they recover from CPTSD, translating colorful fragments of experiences, memories, and dreams into a cohesive whole that is reflective of queer identity. These investigative collage-like paintings layer cross-sections of colorful personal narrative, trompe-l’œil objects, and indicators of time as it whips by.

Wolensky’s work has been exhibited in venues across the country, including Drexel University, Kutztown University, University of Southern Mississippi, Moore College of Art & Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Woodmere Art Museum, InLiquid Gallery, Seraphin Gallery, Rodger LaPelle Galleries, William Way LGBT Community Center, Democratic National Convention, Painted Bride Art Center, Abington Art Center, the Banana Factory Arts & Education Center and many more. in 2023, Wolensky was the recipient of InLiquid’s Dina Wind Fellowship by a jury of outstanding curators, artists, and arts leaders from around the Greater Philadelphia area.

Meg serves as the Managing Director of Continuing Education at Moore College of Art & Design where they are passionate about designing accessible arts experiences and work-readiness opportunities for marginalized professional artists and youth in need. With a BFA from the PAFA (’14) and an MS in Arts Administration from Drexel University (’16), Meg provides holistic solutions informed by creative strategy, nonprofit management, and audience research. Meg is passionate about coaching teams to success in creating arts education experiences with big impact. Outside of creating and working, she lends professional curatorial, grant-writing, art handling, and arts nonprofit administration strategy services to other queer artists, students, organizations and initiatives.

Venue Information

Crayola Gallery
Banana Factory
25 W Third Street
Bethlehem, PA 18015
610-332-1300
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