
5th Annual Midwest Juried Art Exhibit
Accepted mediums: oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, charcoal, pencil, ink, mixed media
IMPORTANT DATES
Entry Deadline: July 26th, 11:59 pm
Entry Fee: $30 non-members, $15 HCAA members
Notification: August 7th
Drop-off Artwork: August 22nd, 1-3pm
Award Ceremony: August 28th, 7-9pm
Opening Reception: September 4th, 6-8pm
Pick-up Artwork: October 31st, 1-3pm

Birdie Art Center and Gallery
195 S. 5th St
Noblesville, IN
2026 Distinguished Juror: David Hannon

David Hannon is an artist and educator living and working in Muncie, Indiana. Hannon is a Professor of Art at Ball State University, where he has taught painting for the past 21 years. Hannon earned his MFA in Painting from Indiana University and his BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Hannon has exhibited extensively, with solo exhibitions at Radford University Art Museum in the Tyler Gallery, the Tatistcheff Gallery in New York City, the Joan Derryberry Art Gallery at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tennessee, and the Leeds Gallery at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. His work has also been featured in group exhibitions such as Another Body at the Spartanburg Art Museum in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Two Dark Lines at The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center in Covington, Kentucky, and The Echo of the Object, a traveling exhibition presented at the University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery in Knoxville and the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland.
Hannon’s paintings have appeared in numerous national and regional juried exhibitions, including at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio; Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center in Cincinnati, Ohio; The Illinois Institute of Art Chicago’s Gallery 180; and the Strohl Art Center in Chautauqua, New York.
Website: davidhannon.net
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