Delta Exhibition starts Friday; Dombek juror

Arkansas artist George Dombek, an internationally acclaimed watercolorist, is the juror for this year’s Delta Exhibition at the Arkansas Arts Center.
Arkansas artist George Dombek, an internationally acclaimed watercolorist, is the juror for this year’s Delta Exhibition at the Arkansas Arts Center.

The 57th annual Delta Exhibition, juried by noted Arkansas watercolorist George Dombek, opens Friday and runs through Sept. 20 at the Arkansas Arts Center, Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock.

An Arts Center members-only preview will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday.

The annual exhibition is open to artists in all media from Arkansas and surrounding states. Artists must either have been born in one of these states or reside there.

Forty-six Arkansas artists are among the 68 chosen by Dombek.

The Delta Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture was founded in 1956; today the exhibition's scope includes all media. A total of 882 works were submitted by 380 artists for this year's exhibition.

Dombek is a previous Delta award winner and a watercolorist whose works have appeared at the Arts Center, Butler Institute of American Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Scottsdale Center for the Arts.

His work is in many museums and private collections; Dombek has won more than 80 awards, including recognition by the National Endowment for the Arts. He will also select the exhibition's $2,500 Grand Award and two $750 Delta Awards.

Additionally, a $250 Contemporaries Delta Award will be selected by the Contemporaries, an auxiliary membership group of the Arkansas Arts Center.

The exhibition is sponsored by Lisenne Rockefeller, Bourbon & Boots, The Brown Foundation Inc. of Houston, Dianne and Bobby Tucker, Janet and Sam Alley and the Capital Hotel. The Grand Award is supported by the John William Linn Endowment Fund. The exhibition is supported by the Andre Simon Memorial Trust in memory of everyone who has died of AIDS.

More information is available at arkansasartscenter.org or call (501) 372-4000.

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