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”
Yerkezhan Abuova – Family Car
Gregg Adams – Central Cube Square
Kara Aledort – The Blue Girl
John Allen – RD30: 08.25-10.20.22
Kanchan Balsé – Dream boats
Kasse Andrews-Weller – Hands Off DC Protest 2025
Katherine Becker – Extrapolation 31
Ken Bachman – Asolo
Jeffrey Berg – Watching
Lisa Bernstein – Kingman Island
Susan Bockman – Sienna Jewel River Rocks
Abol Bahadori – Delphic
Vincent C. Brandi – Great Falls #3.
David Berry – Scotts Run Falls Potomac Gorge
Kate Brogdon – Tempestas bringing the storm
Kimberley Bursic – Benzonia (osprey)
Roslyn Cambridge – Floating Ice
Lizzie Brown – I Wonder…
Sally Canzoneri – The Stacks: Old & New
David Cicerone – Sedatives For Pederasts
Patricia Buck – Something hidden
Adam Chamy – She Dreamt Her Eyelsashes Were Fireworks and that her Story Couldn’t Be Banned
ralph blessing – Old Town Santiago (Chile)
Carla Chissell – Higher Consciousness
Bart Dluhy – Don’t Bet on It
Jay Durrah – When the Creek Rises
Aleesha Ewan – Mamba
Grace Dobrow – Magnolia
Liz Cotter – Ultraviolet
Maluchi Enyi – Vocational Apotheosis
Anne Barnes – Blue
Pamela Crockett – Sub-Cortical 2
Matthew Gonzales – Omar
Felisa Federman – Eagles
Joshua Gorham – Fresh Pond Point 1
Pat Goslee – Azure Flow
JODI Ferrier – Cacti
Vugar Guliyev – Astral Drift’
Patricia de Poel Wilberg – For Yayoi Kusama
Lakshmikant Gupta – Three Sisters
Bart Hutchinson – Marsh
Gloria Tseng Fischer – Check Mate
Merrilee Harrigan – A Very Very Fine House
Vinson Irby – Time
Sara Becker – Denali
Martha Kaplan – Wildflowers in the Woods
John Henderson – The Orishas
Sharmila Kapur – Contemplating Matisse in Morocco
Rama George – The Road Home
Brian Kent – National Harbor Wheel Reflection
Michelle Herman – Untitled (Ideal City) #2
Deborah Lash – Stretch (Self-Portrait)
Jody Kent Lavy – Freedom
Pamela Lawton – Malkia Roberts
Desepe De Vargas – Apparition-906
Soyoung (SuLi) Lee – Soleil on the Bay
Jody Kent Lavy – Morning stillness
Addison Likins – 2020
John Hutchens – Continental Drift
James Klumpner – #89
Taina Litwak – Plastic Tsunami – Drift 2
Ann McCarty – McCarty-Hector and His Son
Taina Litwak – Leaf Storm V
Suzanne McIntire – Immigrants, People Who Turned Nothing Into Something
Federica Giove – Queen of Flowers
Evelyn McKay – FATHER AND CHILD
Jeff Lodge – Sunset, Finger Lakes Farm
Evelyn McKay – ELEPHANTS
JoAnn Lamicella Laboy – Mountain Pass
Marla McLean – This is Not a Game
Steve Mabley – Clear by Morning
Norah Neale – Cares Gorge Abstraction
Nolan Noble – Planet #8
Larry Meinert – Wide Skies
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Imar Hutchins – Title: ‘What to the American Slave is your Fourth of July?’ [Frederick Douglass]
Pat O’Brien – Queen of Hearts
Jon Milstein – Catching Up
Rindy OBrien – In Kindness
Isabella Martire – Will Prevail
Kwaku Ofori-Yirenkyi – Nostalgia
Meredith Morris – American Beauty
Alyse Radenovic – Srpsko Sarajevo, No. 25-20
Sandy Olszowy – Springtime Helicopters
Felicia Reed – Longevity
Xyl Lasersohn – Gatehouse
LaPrea Rich – Embrace the Journey
Christopher Pace – Fallen Tree
Sharon Robinson – Paper Tapestry — Coming Home
David Mosher – Free the Jellyfish
Carolyn Rogers – Rhythm
julie Paez – Gaia_7
Michael Segal – New Cycle. Old Wall
Marc Roman – Chincoteague #31
Farid Shahsavarani – The parallel Worlds
Kate Masters – The Path
Samantha Shelton – Rose #13
Martin Rundle – Harry, 2024
Catherine Small – As Scarce as Hen’s Teeth
Surya Patil – Broken Time
Francis Sullivan – 00_Sullivan: “Rugged Good Looks”
Derek Ronald – Pigeons
Willard Taylor – Homage to Grandma
Lynn Sylvester – hors d’oeuvre #2
Roderick Turner – The New Ferebee/Hope Recreation Center in SE Washington DC.
Rashad Ali Muhammad – Ancestral Echoes
Dwight Tyler – Inhabited
Derrick C Tabor – Monarch Wing #3
Karen Van Allen – White
Rachel Waldron – Kindling
Wil Scott – Columbian Fisherman
DICXON VERGARAY – Robotic Souls
LeAnne Tang – WildAcres IV
Patricia Whittle – The Tree II
Jeff Vincent – Another Morning at Yellowstone
Rod Whyte – Glowing Sun At Union Station
Karen Zens – Carousel
VICTORIA PERRY – Last Day in Norway
Acquaetta Williams – Who We Are
imani w. russell – Social Work
Andrew Taylor – short circuit
Judy Searles – Campobello Sunrise 2
Carol Ward – Milky Way Over Hollow Rock
Suzie Taylor – From Paris to Seoul in DC
