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The Print Center announces its 101st ANNUAL International Competition, to be juried by Pepe Coronado and Shana Lopes.
The ANNUAL is one of the oldest and most prestigious art competitions in the United States. Open to local, national and international artists, The Print Center is particularly interested in highlighting the use of photography and/or printmaking in new and intriguing ways, including in content, form and process.
Any artist using Photography and/or Printmaking as critical components of their work can enter. Artists whose work pushes the boundaries of traditional photographic and printmaking practices are encouraged to enter. 2D and 3D works, including artist books, are eligible.
The Print Center honors the power of photography and print to raise and amplify a multiplicity of voices. We are committed to fostering that power to advocate for change as well as supporting artists working for equity and justice in our exhibitions and programs. The Print Center welcomes artists, audiences and participants of diverse backgrounds, races, religions, sexual orientations and gender identities. We value diversity all facets of operations and in the range of communities with which we engage. We welcome and encourage the participation of individuals of all backgrounds who are inspired by our shared purpose.
This year the ANNUAL has two excellent jurors:
Pepe Coronado: Director and Master Printer, Coronado printstudio, Austin, TX
Shana Lopes: Assistant Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
MORE ABOUT THE JURORS
Pepe Coronado is Director and Master Printer at Coronado printstudio, a collaborative, mission-driven workshop serving artists since 2006. He has an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. In his own decades-long practice as a printmaker, he has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. His work is held in many public and private collections including the Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX; El Paso Museum of Art, TX; Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, CA; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; and the Library of Congress and Smithsonian American Art Museum, both Washington, DC. Coronado is a founding member of the print collective Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA.
Shana Lopes, PhD, is Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. She has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, an MA from The University of Arizona, Tucson, and a PhD from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. She has curated / co-curated exhibitions such as Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue; Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection; A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA; Zanele Muholi: Eye Me; The SECA 2024 Art Award; People Make This Place: SFAI Stories; and Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules. Over the past sixteen years, she has gained curatorial experience at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.