Ploch Art Gallery: Call for Artists
Our Call for artists for the 2025-2026 season is open through December 22, 2024. Submissions will not be taken after that time.
Our Jurors for the 2025-2026 season
NINA GHANDBARZADEH
Nina Ghanbarzadeh is a visual artist, occasional curator, juror and critic. She holds a BFA with a double major in painting, drawing and graphic design from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and completed a two-year AIR Program with Redline Milwaukee. She is a 2024 Mary L. Nohl Fellow in the Established Artist Category, the winner of best in the show in Wisconsin Biennial 2020. She has also been involved in many workshops, lectures, presentations.
Recent focus in her work has been the intersection of text and image and the potential of using text to create movement and texture.
Frank Juárez
Frank Juárez is an award-winning art educator, artist, publisher, and former gallery director.
Juárez brings over two decades of art education and arts management experience organizing local and regional art exhibitions and community art events. He presents on art education and contemporary art at the state and national levels. He supports artists through grant programs and professional development and business of art practices workshops. This has placed him in the forefront of promoting Wisconsin artists, networking, and attracting regional and national artists to collaborate and exhibit in Wisconsin.
Juárez is the art department chair at Sheboygan North High School, publisher ofArtdosemagazine, and editor-in-chief ofSchoolArtsmagazine.
ANNEMARIE SAWKINS
Annemarie Sawkins is a Milwaukee-based-curator, art historian, and recent co-author of A Creative Place: The History of Wisconsin Art (2021) and In the Park with Olmsted: A Vision for Milwaukee (2022). As an independent curator, she has organized several exhibitions including Afghan War Rugs: The Modern Art of Central Asia, On the Nature of Wisconsin (2020), and Art Japan: 2021–1921 (2021). Previous exhibitions include More on Less: The History of Burlesque in America (2015) and Modern Rookwood, among others. From 1999 to 2012, she was a curator at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University. Sawkins has her Masters and PhD from McGill University in Montreal.