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TEXAS NATIONAL Art Competition and Exhibition is celebrating its 15th year on the national scene. It was created in 1995 by the Department of Art at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) as an annual event for artists living and working in the United States. Jurors for each year's event have been internationally known artists including: Leon Golub, Faith Ringgold, Doug and Mike Starn, Martha Erlbacher, James McGarrell, The Art Guys, Donald Sultan, Sandy Skoglund, Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor, Ed Moses, James Surls, Paul Brach, MANUAL and Roger Shimomura. The juror for 2009 is Mel Chin. Works may be of any medium (except video or performance). Participants are eligible for $4,500 in awards, and each will receive an illustrated catalog.
On average 800 artists enter the competition. Entries are received from all fifty states and the District of Columbia. The juror selects the exhibition from slides, and then attends opening events, selecting the prize winners, presents a lecture, and visits informally with art students and faculty.
"TEXAS NATIONAL 2009" juror Mel Chin was born in Houston Texas, received his B.A. from Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, and lives in North Carolina. From 1994 to 1997, he held the Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair of Art at the University of Georgia. Internationally recognized, he is known for creating artworks in a broad range of media and scale, including objects, temporary installations and permanent public artworks. Since the 1970s, Mel Chin has produced artworks that join cross-cultural aesthetics with complex ideas including art that addresses political and ecological issues. Mel Chin's artistic process is often highly collaborative; he has worked with biologists, psychologists, geologists, medical doctors and television producers. He is the recipient of many awards including Artist's Projects/New Forms, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Penny McCall Foundation Award, a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Fellowship, and the Cal Arts Alpert Award in the Visual Arts.
VIEW TEXAS NATIONAL ARCHIVES
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
- Path For Pain Archival—Laura Bennett of Pearland, TX
- Knockoff—Naushon Hale of Portland, ME
- Untitled—Soomin Jung of San Antonio, TX
- List of Goals for 2009, Lenova #1, and 5/2/08—Christie Blizard of Lubbock, TX
