Wildlife Artists Invited To Submit Works For Kentucky-based National Art Exhibit

FRANKFORT, Ky. - The Ohio Valley Art League and the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources are inviting artists to submit entries for the 2012 Kentucky National Wildlife Art exhibit.

Artists may submit works depicting birds, mammals, reptiles and aquatic life native to United States in multi-media, oil, acrylic, graphite, bronze sculptures, woodcarvings, pastel, serigraph and watercolor.

Examples from the 2010 exhibit may be viewed online at: www.ohiovalleyart.org.

Susan T. Fisher, former director of the Art Institute at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, will judge artworks submitted. Awards totaling more than $10,000 will be presented to artists. Artists must be U.S. residents and at least 18 years old.

Entries will be accepted by email and CDs from June 29 to July 27. Interested artists should go online to www.ohiovalleyart.org to download a prospectus.

Wildlife artwork will be displayed at the 10th biennial Kentucky National Wildlife Art Exhibit, held at the Henderson Fine Arts Center in Henderson, Ky. The exhibit opens to the public at 6 p.m. October 13.

The Ohio Valley Art League, in partnership with Kentucky Fish and Wildlife, sponsor this national wildlife art exhibition.

For more information, contact: Jule McClellan, executive director and curator of the Ohio Valley Art League at (270) 860-1930, or email: jule@ohiovalleyart.org.