THE HELEN NORRIS

OPEN ART SHOW

50th Annual May Open Art Show

May 5 - June 30, 2021

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

Artists Reception - TBD

Important Dates:

Bring In Dates: April 24 through April 30
Hanging Date:  May 1 through May 4
Reception Date:   TBD
Pick up Dates:  June 26 - June 30, 2021

Helen Norris Open Art Show Application and Rules 

Sidney Art Gallery is currently open by appointment and will fully reopen based on information provided by the health department and State of Washington.

Because of the coronavirus and Covid 19, mandates from the state and local health care officials, the Sidney Museum and Art Association is open by appointment and will happily open for up to 5 people, masked and socially distanced.  We hope to see you there.  

The Helen Norris Open Art Show (named after Gallery Manager Helen Norris after she retired in 1995) has been an annual event since the opening of the Sidney Gallery in the early years of the Sidney Museum and Arts Association (1972).  The importance of The Helen Norris Open Art Show is three fold:

• to provide a venue for artists to compete/exhibit/sell their art work
• to bring together an outstanding exhibit of art brought by the overwhelming amount of participants
• to teach the beginning artist as well as the public about what goes into creating, presenting, and selling fine art.

The show hosts a different judge every year. During the artists' reception the judge critiques the first place winners, giving the reasons for picking these particular pieces thereby educating those present in what to look for in fine art.   As last year, we do not anticipate a reception this year and will video the show and the judge and post online.  We hope this will change and that there will be good weather and potentially an outside reception to allow for limited people at a time in the art gallery.  The judge will have his own show at the Sidney Gallery in June of 2022. 

The judge for 2021 is Juan Rodriguez.  

Winners of the 2020 Helen Norris Open Art Show are invited to the Winners' Circle in January 2021

Shirley Sakatani - 1st Place - Oil/Acrylic

Victoria Tierney - 1st Place - Mixed Media

Dan Spence - 1st Place - Mixed Media 3d

Deborah Shrimplin - 1st Place - Photography

Anna Hower - 1st Place - Watercolor

Janette Stiles - 1st Place - Drawing

Judge's Choice Award - Shirley Sakatani

Winners of the 2019 Helen Norris Open Art Show who were in the Winners' Circle in January 2020

Tweed Meyer - 1st Place - Mixed Media

Shirley Sakatani - 1st Place - Oil/Acrylic

Karsten Boysen - 1st Place - Mixed Media 3d

Roy Lowry - 1st Place - Watercolor

Penny Clayton - 1st Place - Photography

Jane Luedicke - 2nd Place - Drawing/Pastel

Anna Hoey - Judge

Winners of the 2018 Helen Norris Open Art Show who were in the Winners' Circle in January 2019

Tweed Meyer - 1st Place - Oil/Acrylic

Ben Butcher - 1st Place - Mixed Media

John Risvelato - 1st Place - Mixed Media 3d

Melissa Meader - 1st Place - Watercolor

Steve Havert - 1st Place - Photography

Mary McInnis - 2nd Place - Drawing/Pastel

Roy Lowry - Judge

Winners of the 2017 Helen Norris Open Art Show who were in the Winners' Circle in January 2018

Carol Ward - 1st Place - Oil/Acrylic

Jani Friemann - 1st Place Mixed Media - 2d

David Lewis - 1st Place Mixed Media - 3D

Mike Krona - 1st Place Watercolor

Ben Butcher - 1st Place Drawing

Tom Martin - 1st Place Photography

Dr. Paul Nuchims  - Judge