Inaugural Endowed Jane Shanahan Hill Offutt Members’ Exhibition
Apr 25, 2026 - May 10, 2026
Inaugural Endowed Jane Shanahan Hill Offutt Members’ Exhibition
April 25th – May 10th 2026
This year’s Members’ Exhibition will be held April 25th through May 10th at the Academy Art Museum—during the exciting final weeks of our Rauschenberg 100: New Connections exhibition.
Thanks to a generous gift from Thomas E. Hill and Catherine Hill, we are deeply honored to celebrate the life of Jane Shanahan Hill Offutt with this exhibition for the first time this year. Jane was a beloved artist and art instructor in Talbot County. Her family has thoughtfully endowed the Members’ Exhibition so that her legacy of advocacy for the arts would endure; encouraging other artists to reach for new heights, dig deeper for inspiration and take courage in sharing their works with others.
Registration will open March 1st and continue through March 31st. Capacity is limited, first-come, first-served.
Submission Guidelines
- Entry Fee: $30
- Size requirements: Maximum dimensions for 2D: 32 x 32 inches including the frame. Maximum dimensions for 3D: 32 x 32x 32 inches
- Submissions are limited to one piece of artwork per artist completed in 2025 or 2026
Timeline
- Art drop-off: April 21st from 2-7 p.m. and April 22nd from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the museum.
- Opening Reception: Saturday, April 25th, from 2-4 p.m.
- Exhibition Closing: Sunday, May 10th, with a special event. More information to follow.
- Pickup: May 11th and 12th from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the museum.*
*A fee will be charged for late pick-ups.
Selling Your Artwork
Members can offer their work for sale during this exhibition. Sales will be distributed 60% to the artist and 40% to the museum.
We will be hosting a panel discussion on “The Ins and Outs of Selling Your Art” with local artists and gallerists on February 24th at 5:30 p.m.
Register for the panel discussion here
Awards
Participation in the Member’s Exhibition is not juried. Entries will be judged before the exhibition opens and cash prizes will be announced at the opening reception.
Award categories will be announced soon.
We are honored to have Dan Weiss, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as the judge of this year’s exhibition. Dan served as the President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2015 to 2023 and was also previously the president of Haverford College and Lafayette College in addition to teaching art history as part of their faculties. He holds a MBA from Yale and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in Western Medieval and Byzantine Art. He is the author of 7 books, most recently Why the Museum Matters, offering his unique depth of perspective on the role of the museum in a changing world.