Tentative 2026 Exhibition Schedule

• September 15, 2025:  Art Call opens
• October 15, 2025:  Art Call closes
• January 20, 2026:  Art Intake, Noon – 7:00 pm
• January 21, 2026:  Art Intake, Noon – 4:00 pm
• Saturday, January 24, 2026:  The Opening of the Exhibition – Noon – 5:00 pm 
• Saturday, January 24, 2026: Awards Ceremony 2 PM
  Artist Talks 2:30 PM
• Sunday, January 25, 2026:  Exhibition open, Noon – 4:00 PM
• Tuesday, January 27, 2026:  Exhibition open, Noon – 9:00 PM
• Wednesday, January 28, 2026:  Exhibition open, Noon – 4:00 PM
• Thursday, January 29, 2026:  Exhibition open, Noon – 4:00 PM
• Friday, January 30, 2026:  Exhibition open, Noon – 6:00 PM
• Saturday, January 31, 2026:  Exhibition open, Noon – 6:00 pm
• Sunday, February 1, 2026:  Exhibition open, 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
• Sunday, February 1, 2026:  Juror Talks, 2:00 pm
• Sunday, February 1, 2026: Exhibition closes – 4:00 pm
• Sunday, February 1, 2026: Art Pickup, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
• Monday, February 2, 2026: Art Pickup, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Fine Art Painting Jurors

Jim Welu – Jim is Director Emeritus of the Worcester Art Museum where he served as chief curator and director. He began his career as an artist and taught studio art in college before pursuing further studies in art history. A specialist in 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art, he has published and lectured widely and organized a variety of exhibitions.

Jo Ellen Reinhardt – A classically trained fine art artist, Jo Ellen has a unique gift of capturing beauty in a portrait, still life and landscape painting. Her work has received many awards including 2025 Juror’s Choice, Small Stones Festival of the Arts (SSFA), 2023 Clarence and Helen Prince Award, Academic Artist Association, 2022 Elliot Listen Memorial Award, Rockport Art Association & Museum and 2020 Best in Show, Fine Arts, SSFA. She is a member of several art associations including Copley Society of Art, Rockport Art Association & Museum and Academic Artists Association. Jo Ellen’s artistic career began with watercolors but in recent years she has gravitated to oils. In 2015, she co-founded the New England School of Fine Art, where she is the director and principal instructor. The school is dedicated to teaching and preserving the traditional methods of realistic drawing and painting. She enjoys teaching abroad in Italy and at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Janet Montecalvo – Janet Montecalvo, a commercial and fine art artist, has worked in a variety of disciplines including children’s book publishing; print, TV and film production graphic design; and fine art painting. She was the first licensed journeywoman sign painter in Boston and established a commercial design business working with retailers, design firms, ad agencies, real estate developers and broadcast producers. Her illustrations for the children’s book, “Sofie and the City” were featured in a solo exhibit at Danforth Art. Janet won an Emmy for graphic design contributions to the television movie, “I’ll be Home for Christmas.” She won the Alden Bryan Memorial Award for her oil landscape painting at the 2024 Academic Artists Association’s 74th National Exhibition. Janet’s paintings are often described as “contemporary archeology.” She explores the spaces and physical objects associated with day-to-day life from the mid-20th century to the present. Her art reveals a penchant for detailed work and appreciation of design and craftsmanship.

Fine Art Photography Jurors

Nancy Kathryn Burns – Nancy is the Stoddard Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Worcester Art Museum, where she oversees the museum’s collection of pan-Atlantic prints, drawings, and photographs. She has been a curator or co-curator for 18 exhibitions including Cyanotypes: Photography’s Blue Period (2016), Photo Revolution: Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman (2019), and Us Them We | Race Ethnicity Identity (2022). Nancy has received many accolades including a first-place Award for Excellence for an Outstanding Exhibition from the Association of Art Museum Curators (2017). She is the co-author of Rediscovering an American Community of Color: The Photographs of William Bullard, 1897-1917 and winner of the 2018 Historic New England Book Prize. Earlier in her career, Nancy taught art history at the College of the Holy Cross and Clark University.

Ron Rosenstock – Ron’s photographs are in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The International Center of Photography, The Peabody Essex Museum and numerous private collections.  He has been honored with over 100 exhibits in the United States and Europe in the past 50 years, including the Worcester Art Museum and the National Museum of Iceland. Ron has published six books of his photographs. Ron is a frequent lecturer to social, community and professional groups as well as an international photo tour leader in Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, Morocco, Italy, Greece, Cuba, New Zealand and Vinalhaven, Maine.

Pip Shepley – Pip is a lens-based artist who is fascinated by the interplay of the artistic and technical sides of photography. He often photographs using infrared, his imagination piqued by capturing a subject which the eye cannot perceive. His photographs delve into the unseeable feeling of a place or object by paring it down to a simpler level. Currently, he is exploring the capabilities of camera obscura which he designed and built. A lifelong photography student, Pip has studied at the Maine Media Workshops + College, New England School of Photography, Griffin Museum of Photography and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His photography has been in over 60 exhibits including the Griffin Museum of Photography, Center for Photographic Arts, PhotoPlace Galley, Black Box Gallery and Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts.