Competition and Exhibition
Sachin Pannuri, You're My Home, etching and aquatint, 8" x 10"
Peggy Doole
National Small Works
including work from 36 artists, representing 22 states, including DC
Reception & Awards: August 10, 2:00-5:00
Kanika Sircar, Free Speech 1 stoneware, 6.5" x 3.5" x 3.5"
It is with great pleasure that we announce the 26th year of the National Small Works Show. The exhibit honors Peggy Doole (1934-2021), long-time resident of the DC area who shared her love of art by giving lectures, sponsoring exhibits, and leading tours at the Hirshhorn, the National Gallery of Art, and other museums throughout Europe and the U.S. Her post-graduate museum work led her to a focus on, and a special passion for, printmaking.
The exhibition includes 36 pieces – fine art prints, photographs, and printed objects chosen by our juror Ann Shafer, an independent curator, art historian and writer.
About the Juror
Ann Shafer is an independent curator, art historian, writer, and a leading expert on intaglio printmaking by Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17. Formerly, Shafer was associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Baltimore Museum of Art, where she curated a variety of exhibitions and hosted myriad classes and visitors. She also organized the museum’s Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair in 2012, 2015, and 2017, featuring an international array of twenty presses, publishers, and dealers. In April 2022, she mounted a new, independent print fair in Baltimore. She also hosts the podcast Platemark and writes a blog about favorite works of art (annshafer.com). Shafer has a BA from The College of Wooster and a MA from Williams College, both in art history. In addition to the BMA, Shafer has worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art.
In addition to the Peggy Doole Family Foundation, special thanks to the Washington Print Foundation, Blick Art Materials, McClain's Printmaking Supplies, Jack Richeson & Co., Framers Workroom, Plaza Art, and Dixon-Ticonderoga-Strathmore for support and providing the prizes for the juror selections for outstanding works.
Anne McInnis, Find the space that makes you never want to leave, screenprint, pochoir on silk organza, paper, dyes, pigments, 6.125" x 6.125"
Read the review of the exhibit by Mark Jenkins in the Washington Post.
Download the exhibit catalog.