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NEW IBERIA, La. --- The Shadows-on-the-Teche Plein Air Competition will welcome the Outdoor Painters Society to New Iberia on Oct. 20-22, 2022.
The Outdoor Painters Society creates opportunities for artists of like mind to paint together en plein air (outdoors). Artists from several states will try to capture the essence of New Iberia on canvas and paper.
The three-day painting extravaganza culminates in a Show, Tell, and Sell to be held at the Shadows Visitor Center (320 E. Main St., New Iberia) from 4-6 p.m. Visitors can view the broad selection of work completed throughout the artists’ stay, meet the artists, and take home a fresh painting that sings to the heart of New Iberia.
The Show, Tell, and Sell is free to attend. Proceeds from paint sales will benefit the artists and Shadows Plein Air.
The 9th annual Shadows-on-the-Teche Plein Air Competition will take place March 11-18, 2023. Dawn Whitelaw, renown plein air artist currently residing in Franklin, Tenn., will judge the upcoming competition. Shadows Plein Air is currently accepting applications for artists wishing to compete. Additional details can be found at ShadowsOnTheTeche.org/Plein-Air-Painting
About Shadows-on-the-Teche Plein Air:
The Shadows-on-the-Teche Plein Air competition debuted in 2015, introducing the community to painting en plein air. The tradition of “painting outside” is one explored by William Weeks Hall, the last private owner of the Shadows, who advertised for and taught painting classes in the gardens in the 1940s.
In the eight-year history of the competition, over 180 artists from 28 states, Canada, and the Philippines have applied to participate. Almost 100 of these artists have traveled to New Iberia for the opportunity to spend a week painting Acadiana, helping to preserve our unique landscape and historic, urban, and rural viewscapes. Painting sales, the driving force behind the event and a clearer measure of success, increase each year with a grand total of $140,000 over the history of the event, providing support to the artists and the Shadows.
About the Shadows-on-the-Teche:
The Shadows-on-the-Teche, National Trust for Historic Preservation site, opened to the public in 1961 with the mission to preserve the buildings, landscape, collections, and historical integrity of the site; to research and interpret through education programs a 19th century southern Louisiana plantation economy and community and their evolution; and to encourage an appreciation of and interest in historic preservation. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, which owns and operates the Shadows-on-the-Teche, is a private, non-profit organization. The Shadows does not receive funding from federal, state, parish, or city government. The site supports itself through admissions, special programs and events, and donations to the Friends of the Shadows. For more information, visit ShadowsOnTheTeche.org.
For more information, please contact Jayd Buteaux at (337) 369-6446 or JButeaux@savingplaces.org. Any funds raised from this event will be used for the continued preservation and maintenance of the Shadows.
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