April 7 – April 16, 2026
Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 7, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Juror’s Presentation of Awards: Tuesday, April 7, 5:30 p.m.
Our Juror this year is Amy Torbert, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Associate Curator of American Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum. A native St. Louisan, she earned an MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art and a PhD from the University of Delaware. Prior to arriving at SLAM in 2018, she held curatorial fellowships at the Yale University Art Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, and Philadelphia Museum of Art. While at SLAM, she has curated the exhibitions Art Along the Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration (2021), The Work of Art: The Federal Art Project, 1935–1943 (2024), and Picturing Independence, which opens in June.
Featured images:
Nekoda Burnett, Colors of Flight (2025) chalk pastels
Ishmael Ochieng, Untitled (2026) charcoal on paper
Mateus Montandon, Virgin of the Rocks (2026) acrylic on canvas