Fountain City Forward Presents
Total Eclipse of the Art
Juried Art Competition
Saturday, April 6, 2024
10 am - 4 pm
Art show location:
Fountain City Lions Den, 600 W Main Street, Fountain City, IN
Total Eclipse of the Art
Juried Art Competition
Age Categories: Adult (18+), Teen (13+), and Child (12 and under)
registrations must be postmarked by March 22, 2024
Total Eclipse of the Art: Jurors
Shaun T. Dingwerth, a Wayne County native and IU graduate, currently serves as the Executive Director of the Richmond Art Museum (RAM), where he has been since 1998. He has organized and curated numerous art exhibitions, including several historic Indiana artists. Most recently he curated the exhibition, Impressions of Love: J. Ottis and Winifred Brady Adams and provided an essay for the corresponding exhibit catalog for the David Owsley Museum of Art’s 100th Anniversary located on the campus of Ball State University.
Dingwerth is considered an authority on the Richmond Group artists. He wrote, The Richmond Art Group Artists, published by Indiana University Press, selling out of the first printing. He has also written articles in both the Plein Air Magazine and Fine Art Connoisseur over the years. Dingwerth has also given numerous lectures throughout the state about the development of the Art Association of Richmond and the Richmond Group.
Christian Adams, a Wayne County native and Indiana University graduate, currently serves as Earlham’s art curator managing the Earlham College Permanent Art Collection since 2018. The collection contains Midwestern art and craft, tribal art and artifacts, Quaker art, East Asian art and works on paper. He also helps coordinate acquisitions donated by members of the community and alumni to be preserved in Earlham’s permanent collection.
Adams spent 30 years of his professional career in Hawaii as a gallerist specializing in American Contemporary Art. He served as Gallery Director at Martin Lawrence Galleries from 1986-2000 and was Executive Director at Dolphin Galleries from 2000-2017.