First Place Plein Air Plus Winner: Sean Friel.

First Place Winner of Works on Paper 2023: Jane Springwater.

The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the seventh “Plein Air Plus” Competition and Exhibition on Long Beach Island, New Jersey. The “Island Life” exhibition of finished artwork opens September 17 – October 30, 2022. The “Island Life” exhibition will show two types of Plein Air painting: Classical “Plein Air” and/or “Plein Air Plus” paintings.

The Member, Student, Faculty Exhibition will celebrate artists and their artwork created during the summer of 2022. Considered LBIF’s end-of-summer exhibition, the work showcased will reveal the talents and accomplishments of the LBIF family. This is one of our most popular exhibitions because it draws family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, teachers, and students together. A guest juror will select winners at the opening celebration.

This exhibition invites artists draw from underneath the surface in order to reveal a deeper vision of portraiture. Self or otherwise, the artist will intend to use presence of another person or object as an extension of traditional portraiture. Artwork selected can include but is not limited to drawing, painting, mixed media, collage, digitally created work, and 3D constructions that can be wall hung. Artwork that was created as a multiple through printmaking processes or photography will NOT be considered for this exhibition.

Juror: Jessica T. Smith, The Philadelphia Museum of Art

Dr. Jessica Todd Smith is the Susan Gray Detweiler Curator of American Art and Manager of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Recent projects include the exhibitions Painting Identity; Elegy: Lament in the 20th Century; and Modern Times: American Art 1910-1950, which was accompanied by the book American Modernism: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Prior to her arrival at the PMA in 2016, she was the Virginia Steele Scott Chief Curator of American Art at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. At The Huntington, Smith worked on three major expansions of the American galleries, in addition to exhibitions, publications, and collection development. She earned a B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Yale University.

Elemental Effects: Water + Wind + Earth + Fire invites artists to enter the National Juried Competition and Exhibition at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Island, New Jersey. This venturous exhibition pays tribute to the diverse effects of water, wind, earth, and fire during the art making process. Artworks that manifest intersections of art with science and design are encouraged. Submissions can include 2D work that can be wall hung and/or 3D work to be displayed on the Foundation’s grounds.

Juror: Linda Weintraub

Linda Weintraub practices eco art as an author, educator, curator, practitioner, and homesteader. Throughout her career she has championed the outposts of vanguard experimentation in the arts as they have evolved over the decades. Weintraub has curated over fifty exhibitions. She is the author of innumerable essays and several books exploring contemporary art and ecology. They include WHAT’s NEXT? Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art (2018), To LIFE! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet” (2012), and Avant-Guardians (2007), a series of textlets titled EcoCentric Topics: Pioneering Themes for Eco-Art; Cycle-Logical Art: Recycling Matters for Eco-Art; EnvironMentalities: Twenty-two Approaches to Eco-Art. Additionally, she is the author of such popular books as Art on the Edge & Over, and In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art.

The 24th Annual National Juried Exhibition: “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.

LBIF is pleased to host Southern Regional School District's (SRSD) Student Art Exhibition from Tuesday, March 29 until April 7, 2022.The opening for the exhibition is scheduled for Tuesday, March 29th along with the The National Art Honors Society (NAHS) Induction Ceremony starting at 6:00pm.

A local photography exhibition by Shawn Casey and Chris St. Lawrence showcases a frigid Long Beach Island, and illustrates how the local surf community thrives during the island’s “downtime”