NEW IBERIA, La. --- The Shadows-on-the-Teche received 70 applicants from 25 states for the 8th Annual Shadows-on-the-Teche Plein Air Painting Competition (March 12-18, 2022), and is pleased to announce that 28 artists have been selected from the talented pool of applicants for this year’s competition.
In alphabetical order, the artists are:
Marc Anderson, Natalia Andreeva, Tom Brown, Claude Ellender, Mark Hemleben, Jeanette Herron, Catherine Hillis, Debra Howard, Shawn Dell Joyce, Kirk Larsen, Farley Lewis, Lisette McClung, Spencer Meagher, Mary Monk, Karen Philpott, Crista Pisano, Antwan Ramar, Craig Reynolds, Susan Bunce Ritter, Melissa M. Root, Julie Sanderson, Phil Sandusky, Mary O. Smith, Richard Russell Sneary, R. Gregory Summers, Barbara Tapp, Richie Vios, and Jeff Williams.
All 28 artists will be travelling to the Shadows Visitor Center (320 E. Main Street) on March 12 to have their blank canvases marked with the official Shadows Plein Air dated stamp before heading out into town and the surrounding six parishes to paint.
Artists can paint as many paintings as they wish from Sat., March 12 to Thurs., March 17. The artists’ works will be judged by Vermont based plein air artist and instructor Mark Boedges.
Exhibit:
Artists’ work painted throughout the week will be exhibited and available for sale at the Shadows Visitor Center. Competition winners will be announced, and prizes awarded on Friday, March 18 at 7 p.m. The ceremony, reception, and fine arts sale are free to attend.
Other festivities planned during competition week can be found below. Additional details about these events can be found on the Shadows’
website.
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March 12: Quick Draw at 3 p.m. in downtown New Iberia
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March 13: Paint Delcambre – more info coming soon
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March 15: Painting Demo at 1 p.m. at Hilliard Art Museum (710 E. St. Mary Blvd., Lafayette)
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March 17: Painting Demo at 2 p.m. near the Shadows
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March 18: Paint Out from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. in downtown New Iberia; Awards Ceremony & Fine Art Sale at 6:30 p.m. at Shadows Visitor Center
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 seven-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.
