Competitions
43rd Annual Smoky Hill Art Exhibition

Sponsored by
Emprise Bank, Northwestern Printers, and Jeter Law Firm LLP

JUROR - Louis Copt is an artist, educator, arts advocate and juror whose own award-winning work is in museum, corporate and private collections worldwide.  He taught at the University of Kansas, served as a member of the Kansas Arts Commission and Kansas City Artists Coalition.  His work has been published in American Artist Magazine and he received the Governor's Arts Award for individual artist in 2011

CATALOG - A catalog listing the accepted works and photographs of winning works will be published. Each accepted entrant will receive a copy of the catalog when the works are returned. Copies are available to any entrant upon request.

OPENING RECEPTION - All artists and their guests were invited to the opening and reception, which was held Friday, April 27 from 7 to 9 pm at the Hays Arts Center   

This show is dedicated to Ann Jeter
HAC Founder, Patron, and Friend

Ann Jeter was a passionate arts advocate and patron who, for more than 50 years, actively supported and promoted the arts in her own community and across the state.  

Ann helped found the Hays Arts Council and the Association of Community Arts Agencies of Kansas (ACAAK), proudly serving on the board of directors for both organizations, with a tenure as president for each.    She also served on the board of the Mid-America Arts Alliance and was appointed to the Kansas Arts Commission by Governor Carlin in 1980, where she served four years, with one as Chairman.  Her involvement in the arts served other organizations as well.  She was a member of the board of advisors to the KU School of the Fine Arts and the steering committee for the Lied Center of Kansas.

Ann had many other accomplishments in culture and the arts. As chairman of the Interior Design Committee of Hadley Regional Medical Center, she helped introduce to Western Kansas the concept of Institutional Patron of the Visual Arts. Today the Hadley Foundation Art Collection at Hays Medical Center is the largest collection of original art in the Western half of Kansas. Along with her husband, Norman Jeter, she received the 1997 Governor’s Arts Award for her outstanding contribution to the art community, presented by the Honorable Bill Graves, Governor of Kansas, and the Kansas Arts Commission.

Ann and Norman were Purchase Patrons of the Smoky Hill Art Exhibition each of the previous 42 years.  This year, the 43rd Annual Smoky Hill Art Exhibition, will be the first time in its history they are not included on that distinguished roster of community arts patrons.   Their legacy, however, will continue to serve and define the arts in our community and region for many years to come. 

The Hays Arts Council proudly dedicates the 2012 Spring Gallery Walk and Smoky Hill Art Exhibition to the memory of our friend, Ann Jeter.

Below is a sampling of the exhibition
Click on any photo to enlarge

  
Photos (Left to Right)
1 - “Patchwork” -Katrina Florell Hays, KS  $500 Cash Award
2 - "Trailer Park Happy Hour" - Joel T Dugan, Hays  $300 Cash Award
3 - "Unreality" - Ned Day, Hays  $300 Cash Award
 

   
Photos (Left to Right)
1 - "Stephanie" - Patrick Schlotterback, Lawrence  $300 Cash Award
2 - "To Whom It May Concern" - Casey Stueber, Hays  $300 Cash Award
3 - "Wide Open" - Adrienne Hays, Plainville  $300 Cash Award
 

  
Photos (Left to Right)
1 - "Figure Study I" - Jeann Lim, Hays  $300 Cash Award
2 - "The Rambler" - Isaac Sandoval, Hays   $300 Cash Award
3 - "Polarity" - Michael Jilg, Hays  $100 Cash Award
 

Photos (Left to Right)
1 - "In the Face of Opposition" - Ted Krone, Wichita  Juror's Merit Recognition
2 - "San Diego Abstract" - Dale Strattman, Wichita Juror's Merit Recognition
3 - "69ers" - Gordon K Sherman, Hays  Juror's Merit Recognition

Photos (Left to Right)
1 - "MWS: Two Pandoras (POP!)" - Barbara Waterman-Peters, Topeka  Juror's Merit Recognition
2 - "Going Green" - Landon Schmidt, Wichita  Juror's Merit Recognition
3 - "Allen" - Tobias Flores, Hays  Juror's Merit Recognition
 

Photos (Left to Right)
1 - "The Meal" - Frank Nichols, Hays  Juror's Merit Recognition
2 - "Evil in my Hands" - David Kyle Barnum, Hays  Juror's Merit Recognition
 

  Download the Entire 2012 Smoky Hill Art Exhibition Catalog