The 24th Annual National Juried Competition and Exhibition launches our summer season at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences. We are pleased to present the artwork of 71 artists who live and work across more than 23 states in the US. The variety of media eligible for submission included drawing, painting on paper, hand pulled prints, photographic prints, digital works on paper, and paper constructions completed in the past two years for consideration. Although the “virtual” art world on-line has been palliative and to a degree satisfying, nothing can replace the immediacy and “in person” visual experience of seeing with our own eyes a work of art. The Works on Paper exhibit provides the opportunity to acknowledge the talent, innovation and individuality of seventy artists and the intangible relationship that forms between their work and the viewer.