Archway Gallery's 17th Annual Juried Exhibition
July 5 - 31, 2025
Opening Reception and Awards:   July 12, 2025    5 - 8 pm
Artists' Forum & Music Evening:    July 26, 2025    5 - 8 pm

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Archway Gallery's Seventeenth Annual Juried Competition is an opportunity for area artists and non-members to participate in an exhibition in Archway's front gallery.  50% of sales from the show will go to the artist and 50% will be donated to our community partner.

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Exhibiting Artists

Alessandra Albin - Honorable Mention
​Lamia Aziz
Ron Bigony
Root Bradford
Bob Card
Glen Carpenter
​Maddie Casagranda - Honorable Mention
​Lenie Caston-Miller - Honorable Mention
Andy Dearwater
David Delgado - Second Place
​Helya Ebrahimi
​Patricia Edwards
​Karla Garcia Burgos - Honorable Mention

​​Patti Gary
Marsha Glickman
Malia Gomez
​Mathieu JN Baptiste - First Place
Maryanne Keeling
​Lawrence Lange
Tuong-Phi Le - Honorable Mention
​Leslie Magdaleno
Julianne Mahler
Julia Marcucci Wood
Pizo Meyer
Riley Miller

Wendy Moreland
​Marc Newsome
Carrie Olsen
Sevgi Oluk
Grant Pilon
Christopher Polanco
Emily Rensink
Tim Schneider
Cindy Shung
Arlishia Smith
Paula Vento
Michelle Vo - Third Place
​Julie Wright

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Our Juror
This year’s juror is acclaimed artist and social activist Rick Lowe.   Mr. Lowe was born in 1961 in rural Russell County, Alabama.  Among Lowe’s numerous community art projects are Project Row Houses, Houston (1993–2018); Watts House Project, Los Angeles (1996–2012); Borough Project (with Suzanne Lacy and Mary Jane Jacob), Charleston, SC (2003); Small Business/Big Change, Anyang Public Art Program, Korea(2010); Trans.lation, Dallas (2013); Victoria Square Project, Athens (2017–18); Greenwood Art Project, Tulsa, OK (2018–21); and Black Wall Street Journey, Chicago (2021–). Collections include the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Menil Collection, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the UBS Art Collection. Solo exhibitions include Art League Houston (2020–21). He also participated in Documenta 14, Athens (2017).  In 2013 President Barack Obama appointed Lowe to the National Council on the Arts, and in 2014 he was named a MacArthur Fellow. Lowe was a Visiting Fellow at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society from 2019-2021. He is currently a professor of interdisciplinary practice at the University of Houston.

Our Community Partner
Brave Little Company is Theatre for Everyone. Founded in 2013, BLC creates and produces theatre about, with and for all of Houston’s kids and their grown-ups.  Reflecting Houston’s diversity in the stories told and the artists who tell them, BLC creates theatre the way kids play. A recipient of the 2023 TYA/USA National Award for Artistic Innovation, Brave Little Company has achieved national significance in creating new works for young people and is a member of the Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Roster for 2020-2026.  BLC’s professional productions focus on bilingual work to spark audience imagination such as THE BIG “US” PROJECT, a collaborative piece by artists of all ages and experience levels from Houston’s refugee communities; WISH YOU WERE HERE, collaborations with individuals with disabilities and learning differences; and opportunities for all young people to express themselves creatively, wherever they are.  For more information, visit  www.brave-little.com