From April 20 to June 16, the Marblehead Arts Association will hold its annual national exhibit, “Variations 2024.”
This exhibit will include artwork from artists all over the country and showcase a variety of styles in both 2D and 3D. A panel of jurors will participate during the eight-week exhibit as well.
“This is a national call for art,” MAA Director of Operations Xhazzie Kindle said. “Typically to have work in this gallery, you need to be a member, but once a year we open up that process for anyone who would like to apply.”
Anyone is invited to submit the artwork they are most proud of for the exhibit, although as a juried and competitive exhibit, not all submissions will be selected for exhibition.
The jurors this year include Lydia Peabody, a curator of modern and contemporary art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem; Karen Haas, a lane curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and Ariel Zaccheo, a curatorial director at the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco.
There will be three main forms of art present at the exhibit — fine arts, digital and photography, and 3D works.
The opening for the reception will be on Sunday, April 21 from 2 to 5 p.m.
“This exhibit brings art into the MAA from all over the country,” Kindle said. “We get artists we’ve never got before, and we get to show it here, once a year.”