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International Juried Show Opens at Visual Arts Center
Twenty-fourth event features 139 different pieces of art.
The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey opened the 24th International Juried Show Friday night with an opening reception.
The Arts Center received approximately 2,000 entries, representing the mediums of painting, drawing, textiles, pastels, prints, ceramics, sculpture, mixed media, watercolor, and photography and only 139 works were accepted into the show.
Submissions came from every area of the United States entries were received from Australia, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, Chile, Columbia, England, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Peru, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey and Venezuela Each.
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This years juror is Susan Kismaric, curator, Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art. She first joined the Museum in 1976 as Study Center Supervisor and subsequently worked as Assistant Curator and Associate Curator. She served as Acting Director of the Department from 1980 to 1981 while its former Director was on sabbatical.
Kismaric attended Pennsylvania State University and worked for five years in the picture collection at Time & Life Corporation. She has periodically been a visiting Senior Critic of Photography at the Yale School of Art since the early 1980s, and most recently in the winter of 2008.
