The ArtSpace/Lima Spring Show 2013 will open Friday, April 26, with a public reception for the artists and their friends from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Ellen Nelson Gallery.

Spring Show 2013 is the 58th annual exhibit of that name at ArtSpace/Lima. Entries are accepted from within a 100-mile radius of Lima in the following categories: painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, ceramics, sculpture, textiles, digital art and mixed media.

Jurors for the Spring Show 2013 exhibit are Charlotte Gordon, Curator at the Springfield Museum of Art, and Julie Byrne, ceramist from Groveport, Ohio.  Gordon was responsible for the recent Jack Earl retrospective at Springfield; Byrne is a past recipient of the Ohio Arts Council’s Individual Artist grant.  She has exhibited with the Ohio Designer Craftsmen and numerous other galleries.

A highlight of the opening reception will be the announcement and awarding of prizes, including Best of Show ($500), First Award, Second Award, Third Award, The Martha Farmer Award for Sculpture, Photography Club Award, Award for Ceramics, Award for Painting, and “The People’s Choice Award” (chosen by polling guests in the course of the exhibit).  

The exhibit will also feature a Salon des refuses, mounted in the ArtZone Gallery, and consisting of work not originally juried into the show, but re-juried into the Salon.
Awards will be presented at 7:15 pm.

ArtSpace/Lima is a not-for-profit arts organization with a mission to promote the arts in northwest Ohio and to provide artists with a venue to present and to sell their work.   ArtSpace/Lima is supported in part by a grant from the Ohio Arts Council.