09/11/2010-10/08/2010
The 11th Annual Will's Creek Survey is a juried art exhibition that is open to visual artists from across the United States. The exhibition is held in the Allegany Arts Council's Saville Gallery, located at 9 North Centre Street in Downtown Cumberland's Arts & Entertainment District. The exhibit showcases a wide variety of contemporary art and fine craft, and always draws an enthusiastic audience from the local community and the surrounding region. Our juror is currently reviewing the entries for this year's exhibition. The names of accepted artists will be posted to this web site by August 4.

The juror for the 11th Annual Will's Creek Survey is Eric C. Shiner. Shiner is the Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. His scholarly focus is on the concept of bodily transformation in postwar Japanese photography, painting and performance art. Shiner was an assistant curator of the Yokohama Triennale 2001, Japan's first ever large-scale exhibition of international contemporary art, and the curator of “Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York” at Japan Society in 2007. He is an active writer and translator, a contributing editor for Art AsiaPacific magazine, and an adjunct professor of art history at the University of Pittsburgh.

For questions about the Will's Creek Survey, please contact Emily Thomas at ethomas@allconet.org, or call her at 301-777-ARTS (2787).