Each year, any student enrolled in a PHT class at Alexandria in the current academic year is eligible to enter up to four works in lens-based media, from which an outside juror selects work to be displayed in the AFA Gallery. The juror also selects certain students to receive cash awards in recognition of overall achievement. We wish to thank all of our students who submitted work this year: 44 students submitted 149 works, from which the juror selected 67 pieces: 54 prints, two GIFs, one artist book, one video and 9 digital images presented as a slideshow.   

 

We also wish to thank this year’s juror Dawn Whitmore.​

 

Dawn Whitmore is a Washington, DC based interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the dynamics between mythology, identity and the environment. Using soundscapes, photography, video, sculpture, performance, painting, and drawing, she creates immersive spaces that invite the participant to enter an altered emotional landscape. Dawn received a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art in 2005. Her work has been shown nationally including: the Mesa Museum of Contemporary Art (AZ), Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (VA), Hemphill Fine Arts (DC), Area 405 (MD), Spring Gallery (NY) and published in The Guardian, The Washington Post and The Virginia Quarterly Review. She is a recipient of multiple Artist Fellowship Grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and an CAH-NEA CARES Act Grant.

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The 2024 Juried Student Show was organized by Aya Takashima, Cristin Hand, and Page Carr. We wish to thank our Provost, Annette Haggray, our Division Dean, Jay Steere, as well as Bob Hull, Coordinator, and Kelly Persons, Executive Director, from the Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation for their support.