The 24th annual exhibition and National Juried Competition: “Works on Paper” 2022 at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts + Sciences welcomes entries of original work, created within the last two years, which explore the various media which utilize paper. The competition and exhibition is open to the continental USA only. Works on paper can include but are not limited to: drawing, painting, hand-pulled prints, photographic prints, digitally created artwork displayed as prints, and paper constructions which may be wall hung. Application closes March 1, 2022.

Juror: Esther Adler, Curator, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, NYC

Esther Adler is Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art. Her exhibition Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw is on view at MoMA through March 19, 2022, and will travel to The Menil Collection in April, having opened at the Art Institute of Chicago on June 12, 2021. Most recently, she organized Betye Saar: The Legends of Black Girl’s Window (with Christophe Cherix, 2019), Charles White: A Retrospective (with Sarah Kelly Oehler, 2018) and Charles White—Leonardo da Vinci. Curated by David Hammons (2017).

Ms. Adler joined the museum staff in 2005, and worked as a Research Assistant, Curatorial Assistant, and Assistant Curator in the former Drawings Department. She has also worked at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden as a graduate fellow, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has a BA from Brandeis University, and an MA from the University of Maryland.