Westmoreland Art Nationals Juried Art & Photography Exhibit

Downloadable 2025 WAN Entry Form & Prospectus

The DEADLINE is MARCH 7, 2025

Every year, the Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival holds the Westmoreland Art Nationals, a juried art and photography exhibition, featuring art from all around the country. Artists are permitted to enter as many pieces as they’d like to be considered in both of our exhibits. Two exhibitions, one entry form, one entry fee!

The first exhibit will be held in the Health & Culinary Center at Westmoreland County Community College in Youngwood, PA. The exhibit will run from Saturday, May 17 through Wednesday, June 4, with the Opening Reception on May 17 from 6-8 PM. Awards will be Announced at 7:00 PM on May 17 and posted on our Facebook page. The second exhibit will be held at the 51st Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival at Twin Lakes Park in Greensburg, PA on Thursday, July 3 through Sunday, July 6 with the Opening Reception set for Saturday, June 28 from 6-8 PM. Awards will be Announced at 7:00 PM on June 28 and posted on our Facebook page. Both shows are free and open to the public to attend.

Along with two physical on-site exhibits, we will have your artwork posted on our Facebook page for people to view, vote, and purchase.

Dates, locations, exhibitions, and venues are subject to change without notice. Changes will be posted on our Facebook page; https://www.facebook.com/artsandheritage.

The People’s Choice Award will be decided by the number of votes received on-site through paper ballots as well as votes taken from our Facebook Page using the number of “Likes” on an image. Any accepted piece of artwork may be voted on to win the People’s Choice Award. Voters are permitted to cast one ballot per artist per day.

Want to Save Even More? Become a Festival Member.

Festival Platinum Members pay no entry fee for life for the Westmoreland Art Nationals and receive a 25% discount on artwork purchased. Additional benefits from free merchandise to discounts on the Poetry & Short Story Contest, also save $25 on their application fee for Artist Market Vendors. For more information, visit our Membership page: https://artsandheritage.com/membership/.

A total of at least $4,800 in prize money will be awarded in the following categories:

  • Best of Show
  • Painting
  • Graphics
  • Craft
  • Sculpture
  • Photography
  • Mixed Media
  • Digital Media/Digital Art
  • New Entrant
  • People’s Choice

Winners are selected for each exhibit and are not announced until the night of the Opening Receptions. Both shows provide excellent exposure and serve as wonderful networking opportunities to meet other distinguished artists.

Meet Our 2024 Curator (2025 Curator Coming in April)

Eileen Long (Greensburg, Pennsylvania)

Eileen Long recently graduated from Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in Art Administration. She was the assistant curator to Sarah Hunter in the Westmoreland Art Nationals in 2024.

During her time at Seton Hill, she interned at You Are Here, a community-based art gallery in Jeannette, PA, where she assisted in the set up and tear down of exhibitions and aided in planning community events, such as the Jeannette Art Walk. Additionally, Eileen has helped with the curation and set up of exhibits at Seton Hill, including the Biannual Women in Art Exhibition and The Art of Seeking: Legacy in Art for the Seton Hill Archives. During her curation of The Art of Seeking, she brought Seton Hill’s overlooked artwork into the public eye while working with the university’s archivist to document and create official records for Seton Hill’s art collection.

While curating shows, Eileen constructs narratives between the artworks, allowing the pieces to work in tandem with the others while still creating space for each work to stand out for itself. In her personal artwork, Eileen uses the world around her for inspiration, focusing on color and relationships between objects and people.

Meet Our 2025 Jurors

Edward Rubin (Los Angeles, California)

Edward L. Rubin is an award-winning fine art photographer in Los Angeles. He has also been a film and television Production Designer and a fine art painter. Edward studied architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Set Design from Carnegie-Mellon University. He attended the Academie de Port Royal in Paris, learning drawing, painting, and printmaking.

Edward’s fine art photographs have been shown in galleries throughout the United States and internationally. His museum shows include the Ontario Museum of History and Art in California, the Masur Museum of Art in Louisiana, the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Cain Gallery at Del Mar College in Texas, the Attleboro Arts Museum in Massachusetts, the Museum of the Big Bend in Texas, and the Alexandria Museum of Art in Louisiana. In Spain, his work was exhibited in Malaga and Barcelona at the Third and Fifth Biennial of Photography. His solo exhibitions include Galerie Roanne de Saint Laurent in Paris, France, and the State Capitol Building in Vermont. Edward’s images have been published in the New York Review of Books (September 2021) and Photographer’s Forum Magazine’s annuals Best of Photography (years 2010-2018). He has won first place many times in multiple categories in the International Pollux Awards.

Edward’s photography book, Vermont–An Outsider’s Inside View, was shortlisted for the 2016 International Rubery Book Award. It won the 2017 Independent Publishers Book Award gold medal–US Northeast Region Non-Fiction, and the 2016 Independent Publishers of New England Book Award.

Edward has six Emmy Award nominations for Art Direction and won the Emmy for Disney’s Cinderella, starring Whitney Houston and Brandi. His nominations include American Horror Story, Disney’s Annie, Return to Halloweentown, and the miniseries Andersonville. He was nominated five times for the Excellence in Production Design Award from the Hollywood Art Directors Guild, winning for Cinderella. His credits include sixty other television and film productions.

Edward taught Production Design for Film and Television at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles and designed interiors for Leonidas Chocolate in Beverly Hills. He has been married to his husband, poet Sam Ambler, for thirty-seven years. He also swims. A lot.

 

Jill Jensen (Central, Virginia)

Jill Jensen is a mixed media artist residing in Central Virginia. Printmaking, dyeing and painting form the basis of her mixed media fiber art. The beauty of the region is a constant source of inspiration.

She is the former curator at the Academy Center of the Arts, Lynchburg, VA and has served as the juror for numerous art exhibitions. Jensen curated “The Matrix: Prints from the Permanent Collection” at the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College and “Monstrous and Miniscule” at Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, Virginia. Her work has been included in regional, national and international exhibitions and twenty seven one- person shows. She has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in both their locations (Virginia and France), and has had eighteen artist-in-education residencies.

Some institutions that include her work are the Taubman Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles; Snidow Chapel at the University of Lynchburg; and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. To view more of Jensen’s work, visit  www.jilljensenart.com.