Yerkezhan Abuova – Family Car
$2,500.00Kanchan Balsé – Dream boats
$1,500.00Ken Bachman – Asolo
$845.00Jeffrey Berg – Watching
$500.00Abol Bahadori – Delphic
$1,800.00Roslyn Cambridge – Floating Ice
$5,000.00Lizzie Brown – I Wonder…
$5,000.00Patricia Buck – Something hidden
$1,900.00Bart Dluhy – Don’t Bet on It
$1,200.00Jay Durrah – When the Creek Rises
$7,750.00Aleesha Ewan – Mamba
$6,000.00Liz Cotter – Ultraviolet
$475.00Maluchi Enyi – Vocational Apotheosis
$45,000.00Anne Barnes – Blue
$900.00Pamela Crockett – Sub-Cortical 2
$1,460.00Matthew Gonzales – Omar
$399.00Felisa Federman – Eagles
$1,200.00Pat Goslee – Azure Flow
$1,800.00JODI Ferrier – Cacti
$5,700.00Vugar Guliyev – Astral Drift’
$3,900.00Lakshmikant Gupta – Three Sisters
$2,750.00Bart Hutchinson – Marsh
$425.00Vinson Irby – Time
$1,600.00Sara Becker – Denali
$465.00John Henderson – The Orishas
$2,500.00Jody Kent Lavy – Freedom
$175.00Desepe De Vargas – Apparition-906
$1,800.00Addison Likins – 2020
$385.00James Klumpner – #89
$950.00Taina Litwak – Leaf Storm V
$1,500.00Evelyn McKay – ELEPHANTS
$600.00Nolan Noble – Planet #8
$1,000.00Isabella Martire – Will Prevail
$2,000.00Meredith Morris – American Beauty
$2,500.00Felicia Reed – Longevity
$1,200.00Xyl Lasersohn – Gatehouse
$15,000.00LaPrea Rich – Embrace the Journey
$2,600.00Carolyn Rogers – Rhythm
$650.00julie Paez – Gaia_7
$575.00Marc Roman – Chincoteague #31
$3,200.00Kate Masters – The Path
$500.00Martin Rundle – Harry, 2024
$5,000.00Surya Patil – Broken Time
$995.00Derek Ronald – Pigeons
$850.00Dwight Tyler – Inhabited
$500.00Karen Van Allen – White
$475.00Rachel Waldron – Kindling
$1,000.00DICXON VERGARAY – Robotic Souls
$1,200.00Karen Zens – Carousel
$195.00Acquaetta Williams – Who We Are
$2,000.00imani w. russell – Social Work
$3,000.00Andrew Taylor – short circuit
$1,200.00
Juried by Claude Elliott, the Hill Center Galleries 2026 Regional Juried Exhibition features the amazing work of artists from all over DC, Maryland, and Virginia. The selected artists compete for cash prizes and honorable mention awards. First place $1000, Second Place $750, and Third place $500.
All pieces of art are for sale and will be on display throughout our Galleries and online at HillCenterDC.org.
The exhibition runs from January 21-May 2, 2026
Juror: Claude L. Elliott
Claude L. Elliott is an independent curator, oral historian, and advocate for artists in the DMV. He is former assistant curator at Rhode Island School of Design. He has developed exhibitions in Providence, RI, Atlanta, GA, Philadelphia, PA, Brentwood, MD, and Washington, DC.
Juror Statement
The Hill Center Galleries 2026 Regional Juried Art exhibition is a signature showcase featuring the artistic visions of 121 DMV artists. It was a challenge to review 800 images and curate space for the 124 works selected. The exhibition features a range of interesting aesthetics, artistic techniques, materials, and creative processes.
Prizes are awarded for artistic vision, mastery of techniques, innovative use of materials, and a clear and concise artist statement supporting the work.
I am particularly interested in images which invite the viewer to see differently, to ask questions, to experience a subject, theme, and image from a new perspective.
1st Place – Vugar Guliyev “Astral Drift” 2025, Oil on canvas
2nd Place – Lakshmikant Gupta “Three Sisters” 2023, Color pencil on black paper
3rd Place – Roderick Turner “The New Ferebee/Hope Recreation Center in SE” 2024, Oil on wooden panel
Honorable Mentions
Patricia de Poel Wilberg “For Yayoi Kusama”
Jody Kent Lavy “Freedom”
Soyoung (SuLi) Lee “Soleil on the Bay”
Isabella Martire “Will Prevail”
![Imar Hutchins – Title: ‘What to the American Slave is your Fourth of July?’ [Frederick Douglass]](https://www.hillcenterdc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Imar_Hutchins-600482.2239685.jpg)
