About the Exhibition
For 33 years, the annual National Drawing and Print Competitive Exhibition at Gormley Gallery has provided the community with a glimpse of contemporary artistic practices happening on a national level. Each year an outside juror representing a local museum or arts institution serves as curator for the exhibition, selecting the artworks for the show and awarding a purchase prize to one or more pieces. Those pieces become part of the permanent collection of Notre Dame of Maryland University and are displayed across campus.
About the Juror
Joy Davis is a scholar of African-American and diasporic art, fashion history, and colonial dress, and is the Director and Curator of Waller Gallery, which she created to support artists and scholars of color. This fall she began a new role as Visual Art Director for Baltimore’s Creative Alliance, where she oversees curatorial, film, and resident artist programs. And for the last six years she has been the producer and co-host of Unravel: A Fashion Podcast. She has previously worked at the Walters Art Museum, and at a variety of arts and fashion venues in Baltimore and New York.