Northwest Arts Center

Competition Dates

All Media 2025 Dates and Deadlines
Deadline (postmark) for entries	31 August 2025
Notification of accepted works	12 September 2025
Receipt of accepted works begins	12 September 2025
Deadline for receipt of works	11 October 2025
Exhibition dates	23 Oct - 20 Dec 2025
Public Reception	23 October 2025
Return shipping	26 December 2025

INT'L All Media Juried Exhibition
October 23 - December 20, 2025
Walter Piehl Gallery
Northwest Arts Center
Minot State University
Minot, North Dakota

JUROR: Melissa Monroe, Portland OR — melissamonroeart.com

MELISSA MONROE is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist based in Portland, Oregon, known for her playful and expressive artwork. Since beginning her artistic journey in 2013, she has immersed herself in painting, textiles, and sculpture—creating work that explores vulnerability, transformation, and self-reflection. In 2021, she began creating handmade rugs, quickly becoming an innovator in the tufting technique by blending painterly abstraction with fiber-based work and sculpture. Her spiritual and performative practices also extend into mask-making and video installations. Melissa’s work has been exhibited widely in galleries and art fairs across the U.S., including exhibitions at Brassworks Gallery in Portland, Hey There Projects in Joshua Tree and Mortal Machine, New Orleans as well as showing at the Seattle Art Fair and Scope Art Fair in Miami.

ELIGIBILITY
Works in any medium, traditional or experimental, including photographs, qualify. All artworks must be original. Work must be ready to exhibit, completed within the last two years, and not previously exhibited in an INT’L exhibition. It is preferred that two-dimensional work be framed and protected by clear acrylic glazing, unless alternative display is integral to the work.

AWARDS
$2500 in Cash and Purchase Awards: five Merit Awards and one Best of Show chosen by juror. Purchase Awards selected by faculty committee. Best of Show earns a future solo exhibition and an invitation to future Best of the Best exhibits.

ENTRY FORMAT & PROCEDURE
Entries will be judged from a high resolution digital image and up to 2 detail images. Files must be in jpg format, minimum of 300 ppi at approximately 8 x 10 inches. Name files as follows: A_titleofwork.jpg, B_titleofwork.jpg, etc. Abbreviate as needed on the file name, but use complete title on entry form. Submit images, non-refundable entry fee, and completed entry form by email or postal mail.

Email Entries: Send images and entry form to
nac@minotstateu.edu; with the subject line “INT'L All Media 2025 Entry.”

Mail Entries: Send images on labeled CD, DVD or flash storage along with fee and printed entry form to INT’L All Media, Northwest Arts Center, Minot State University, 500 University Avenue West, Minot, North Dakota 58707. Storage will not be returned.

Entry Fee: 2 entries/$30; Additional Entries: $5 each. Maximum of five entries allowed per artist. Include a $25 annual membership fee, and you may enter at the NAC Art Friends Members’ rate: 2 entries/$20; Additional Entries: $2 each. Pay online at: minotstateu.edu/nac/pay or by mail with a personal check or money order. Fees payable in US dollars. Entries not accepted without the proper fee.

NOTIFICATION
Entries will be acknowledged by e-mail as they are received. All entrants will be notified of selection results via e-mail on September 12th. For a hard copy letter of notification please provide a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

SALES & COPYRIGHTS
Sales will be encouraged. A 30% commission will be charged on all works sold or purchased. Your entry grants permission to photograph your work and use your images for promotional or educational purposes only.

CATALOG
The INT'L juried exhibitions publish an illustrated catalog. A complimentary copy will be sent to each entrant. Extra copies of the catalog may be purchased for $7.00 per catalog.

INSURANCE
Minot State University will insure all works from their delivery to their departure. Settlement for works damaged in transit remains the responsibility of artist and shipper. NAC and MSU are not liable for any damage or loss occurring in transit.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What is a Juried Exhibition?
A juried exhibition shows artwork selected through a competitive process. Artists submit images and information for the artworks they hope will be selected by the juror. A juror is responsible for reviewing all the submissions, and determining which of the artworks will be declined, accepted, or awarded additional prizes. At the Northwest Arts Center, the initial submissions are reviewed electronically, and often the juror makes their final decisions about awards while looking at the artwork in person.

Why do you have a Juried Exhibition?
The Juried Exhibitions at Minot State University were started by faculty and students in 1969 to bring contemporary artwork of merit to our region for the enrichment of audiences, and to start a teaching collection through purchase awards.

How are Juried exhibitions selected?
The Northwest Arts Center invites guest jurors for the INT’L Juried Exhibitions; typically an artist, curator, museum or gallery director, or other arts professional. We provide the juror some basic guidelines: an ideal range for the number of pieces they select, number and type of awards and purchase recommendations. Then, the juror determines and uses their own criteria for selection. In this way, a juried exhibition is always created to a large degree by a subjective sets of standards and individual taste. Our jurors are not provided with the names of artists or any other identifying information, a process known as a “blind jurying.”