MSEA-Sponsored Juried Art Show
Celebrating Young Artists
Every year, MSEA supports the Reginald F. Lewis Museum’s High School Juried Art Show. This year, students expressed themselves through painting, drawing, photography, and mixed media, focusing on the current and historic social issues that deeply affect them using the theme Commemorating 250 Years of the Black Experience as a prompt. Students researched other commemorations and visited the museum’s permanent exhibition and current exhibits as they developed their project for submission. The works they submitted reflected emotionally and painfully on the Black experience in America when contemplating the 250-year history of our nation.
This year, students from George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology in Baltimore County took home the top honors. The young artists won MSEA-sponsored awards of $1,000 (1st place), $500 (2nd place), $300 (3rd place), and $150 (honorable mention).
On Juneteenth, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum will open THE LINES WE CROSS: 250 years of Maryland Forging America, which traces the ways Black Marylanders have pushed boundaries, broken systems, and shaped the social, cultural, and political landscape of Maryland and the nation. This exhibition will unfold across three floors of the museum, guiding visitors through a narrative arc that moves from Abolition and Artisan to Artistic Expression.