Thanks to a generous gift from Thomas E. Hill and Catherine Hill, we are deeply honored to celebrate the life of Jane Shannahan 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.
- Exhibition Closing: Sunday, May 10th with a special closing event with sparkling wine, sweets and shopping from 2-4 pm.
- Pickup: May 11th and 12th from 10-4pm at the Museum
- *Please note: All works must be picked up in person. A late fee will be charged for late pick-ups.
Arielle Marks Award for Best Print – Blue Nebula III, Rosemary Cooley
Best Eastern Shore Scene – Coming or Going, Deborah Haynes
Best in Ceramics – Sage of the Forest, Karen Bailor
Best in Fiber – Tidal Basin III, Lyn McCormack
Best Interior – Passage, Nanny Trippe
Best in Mixed Media – World Heritage Site, Mary Ann Schindler
Best in Paper Weaving or Collage – Les Cheneux Isles, Marianne Kost
Lee Lawrie Juror’s Award – Bromsgrove Footpath, Peter Hanks
Excellence in Photography – Easton History: Brookletts Building Memories, Joseph Minarick
Jane Shannahan Hill Offutt Memorial Award for Best Landscape – 1st Prize – Forest Light, Sara Linda Poly
Jane Shannahan Hill Offutt Memorial Award for Best Landscape – 2nd Prize – Spring on Town Creek, Diane DuBois Mullaly
Jane Shannahan Hill Offutt Memorial Award for Best Landscape – 3rd Prize – Oregon Delight, Amy Mollman
M. Susan Stewart Award – Best in Wood – Rowboat, Terence John
Nancy South Reybold Award for Contemporary Art – Looking Inside, Charles Martin
Samuel Sands Sport Art Award – Jon and Obiwan, Barrie Barnett
Trippe Gallery Award for Best Work on Paper – 無題 Mudai, Carol Reed
Education Award – I Dream I Was a Fish, Ira Krowitz
The Annual Members’ Exhibition is open to all Museum Members, with artwork accepted on a first-come, first-served basis until capacity is reached. Submissions for 2026 are now full.
AWARD LIST
Arielle Marks Award for Best In Print sponsored by Richard Marks and Amy Haines, $500 – The principle of transferring images from a matrix onto another surface, most often paper or fabric. Traditional print techniques include woodcut, etching, engraving, lithography, and screenprinting.
Best Eastern Shore Scene sponsored by Working Artists Forum, $200 – Any medium used to depict life on the Eastern Shore – includes, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia
Best in Ceramics sponsored by The Academy Art Museum, $100 – Jurors choice of any entry using non-metallic materials (clay, silica) permanently hardened by high-temperature firing.
Best in Fiber sponsored by Jason Moore and Holly Jackson, $100 – Fine art whose material consists of natural or synthetic fiber and other components, such as fabric or yarn. Focuses on the materials and on the manual labor on the part of the artist as part of the works’ significance, and prioritizes aesthetic value over utility.
St Michaels Art League Award for Best Interior, $250 – Defined as the artist’s depiction and interpretation of an interior space. Can be awarded to a 2D or 3D medium
Best in Mixed Media sponsored by Jason Moore and Holly Jackson, $100 – Artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed. Assemblages, collages, and sculpture are three common examples. Materials used to create mixed media art include, but are not limited to, paint, cloth, paper, wood and found objects.
Lee Lawrie Juror’s Award sponsored by The Academy Art Museum, $500 – Jurors Choice of all entries.
Excellence in Photography sponsored by Tidewater Camera Club, $100 – Any work that is exclusively photography
Jane Shanahan Hill Offut Memorial Awards for Best Landscape; 1st place $1000, 2nd place $750 and 3rd place $500
M. Susan Stewart for Best in Wood, $400 – Woodworking is the skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinetry, furniture, wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning. Craftsmanship in wood is the main criterion, meaning that this award is for works where the principal material is wood that has been intentionally altered by the maker. Found objects made of wood are not eligible.
M. Susan Stewart for Best in Paper Weaving or Collage, $300 – Any type of collage or collaging technique in which paper is used and adhered to a flat mount. Refers to the use of paper exclusively, or with other materials, resulting in work of art in which fragments are arranged and glued or otherwise affixed to a supporting substrate.
Nancy South Reybold Award for Contemporary Art, $250 – Art that is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century. Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organising principle, ideology, or “-ism”.
Samuel Sands Sport Art Award, $500 – “Sporting art” refers to traditional turf and field sports. Those who specialize in depicting scenes like fox hunts, waterfowl hunts, horse races, and fly fishing
Trippe Gallery Award for Best Work on Paper, $200 – Any unique/singular work on paper (pastel, charcoal, pen and ink, graphite, etc.)
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.