Artists in the Mid-South are invited to enter their traditional and digital art in a juried exhibition, with the top prize of $1,000 going to the Best in Show winner.
The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas (ASC) is accepting entries for the 2025 Irene Rosenzweig Biennial Juried Exhibition.
The exhibition is open to artists 18 years or older who reside in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee or Texas. Accepted art forms are paintings, drawings, original prints, fiber art, ceramics, sculpture, photography, digital works and video.
Prizes awarded are Best in Show, $1,000; first place, $500; second place, $200; three $100 merit awards; and $2,000 available in purchase awards. Multidisciplinary artist, cultural worker and naturalist Eepi Chaad of Houston, Texas, is this year’s juror.
The deadline to enter is 11:59 p.m. Friday, July 18, 2025. The exhibition opens Thursday, Sept. 18, with a free, public reception from 5-7 p.m. and an awards presentation at 6 p.m. The works will be on view in the William H. Kennedy Jr. Gallery through Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026.
This exhibition is an opportunity for established and up-and-coming artists to gain recognition and earn prizes, and for ASC to grow its permanent collection.
Visit the Rosenzweig exhibition page for submission guidelines and the entry portal. The cost is $25 per entry, with a maximum of five entries accepted per artist.
For questions about the exhibition or submission process, contact Matthew Howard, visitor relations coordinator, at mhoward@artx3.org or call 870-536-3375.
The exhibition is supported in part by The Arts & Science Center Endowment Fund and the Irene Rosenzweig Endowment Fund.
Eepi Chaad (she/her) is a practicing multidisciplinary artist, educator, and naturalist who tells stories using textiles, fibers, metals, places and people. Her practice studies human impact and lives at the intersection of natural and built environments, with work ranging from tiny adornments to large-scale installations to the art of making space and connecting people. She has exhibited internationally and received local and regional awards. Chaad is the artist services program manager at Mid-America Arts Alliance. She also collaborates with arts and culture organizations, including serving on the PrintMatters board, the Houston Museum Educators Roundtable steering committee, and advisory boards for Houston-based organizations BakerRipley Gulfton and Buffalo Bayou Partnership. Chaad believes art is for every community and that creativity is in every human.
The Arts & Science Center’s prestigious, long-running show is named after the notable Pine Bluff-born educator and scholar. Irene Rosenzweig was born in 1903, and her level of education was notable for a woman of the era. She earned an undergraduate degree in classical studies from Washington University, and a doctoral degree from Bryn Mawr College. She was fluent in French, German, Spanish, Latin and Greek. She tutored President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s family members during their time in the White House.
The Rosenzweig juried show began with a gift from the Irene Rosenzweig Foundation in 1992. Rosenzweig died at age 94 on Oct. 8, 1997, in Pine Bluff. She left a gift to ASC, the Irene Rosenzweig Endowment Fund, which supports the exhibition in her name and includes purchase awards for the center’s permanent collection.
