2nd Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition
Jundt Galleries and Arcade Gallery, June 1 to August 24, 2024
Reception and Awards: Friday evening, May 31, 2024
In the summer of 2024, the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University presents the 2nd Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition, organized by the staff of the museum.
This juried display, originally intended to occur at Gonzaga University every third summer but postponed by the pandemic, seeks to present the diversity and dynamism of contemporary artistic activity in the Inland Northwest while celebrating the relationship between art and the local landscape.
The 2nd Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition is presented at the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Expo ’74, and in celebration of the legacy of creativity, community, and environmental stewardship that drives Spokane to this day. In 1974, Spokane became the smallest city in history to host the World’s Fair. As an environmentally focused event, the Spokane World’s Fair sparked a transformation in the heart of our city that became the catalyst for sustainable growth in our region. This exhibition is one of the many events during the 50th anniversary of Expo ’74, celebrated May 4 to July 4, 2024.
This juried display, featuring 81 works by 66 different artists. All from the region, seeks to present the diversity and dynamism of contemporary artistic activity in the Inland Northwest while celebrating the relationship between art and the local landscape. The 2nd Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition is presented at the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Expo ’74. And in celebration of the legacy of creativity, community, and environmental stewardship that drives Spokane to this day.
Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished.
Landscape is a medium of exchange between the human and the natural, the self and the other. …Landscape is a natural scene mediated by culture. It is both a represented and presented space, both a signifier and a signified, both a frame and what a frame contains, both a real place and its simulacrum, both a package and the commodity inside the package.
I was born by these waters…the earth here is my mother.
In every dress nature is greatly charming… How gay looks the Spring! how glorious the Summer! how pleasing the Autumn! and how venerable the Winter! – But there is no thinking of these things without breaking out into poetry.
The first Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition was held at the Jundt Art Museum from May 26 to August 11, 2018, and attracted almost 4,000 visitors to campus during the summer months. The award winners for the 2018 show included 1st place winner Amalia Fisch (Spokane, Washington) for her oil on canvas painting Kettle River Patchwork, and 2nd place winner Scott Bailey (East Wenatchee, Washington) for his painting 46˚ 51’ 06” N 121˚ 45’ 28” W (Delaunay Triangulation). Honorable mention awards were given to Owen McAuley (Cheney, Washington), Dennis Smith (Medical Lake, Washington), and Gregg Schlanger (Ellensburg, Washington).