Peter B. Jones Named 2023 Juror for Art in Craft Media Exhibition at the Burchfield Penney Art Center 

Call for artworks in craft media open through June 16, for exhibition November 10, 2023 – March 31, 2024

Buffalo, NY– May 25, 2023 – The Burchfield Penney Art Center is pleased to announce that artist Peter B. Jones will select the artworks for exhibition in Art In Craft Media 2023.

Peter B. Jones is a renowned Onondaga artist and potter. He studied under Hopi artist Otellie Loloma while attending the Institute of American Indian Art in New Mexico. His pottery is admired and collected by community members, Native American art collectors, and museums across the country and internationally. Working in a traditional style of pit-fired Iroquois pottery, Jones’ art directly reflects the issues that have impacted the Haudenosaunee. He operates a pottery studio on the Cattaraugus Territory and conducts pottery workshops for schools, community groups, and other organizations.

Presented by the Sylvia L. Rosen Endowment for Fine Art in Craft Media, the 15th juried biennial exhibition celebrates and explores the contemporary work of fine artists of the region working with glass, fiber, wood, clay, metal, and other craft media. Submissions of artworks in craft media (completed in the past two years) will be accepted for consideration until 5 pm, June 16th, 2023. Learn more at burchfieldpenney.org. 

One or more of the exhibited works will be selected for the permanent collection of the Burchfield Penney Art Center—and up to $3,000 in purchase awards will be made. One artist will be awarded the Langley Kenzie Prize, which includes a solo exhibition in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery at the Burchfield Penney. One artist will also be selected to receive a monetary Margaret E. Mead Endowment Merit Award.

Art In Craft Media 2023 will be on view November 10, 2023 – March 31, 2024, at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State.

For more information about the exhibition or submitting work, contact Robert Cutrona by email at BPCraft@buffalostate.edu. 

ABOUT THE SYLVIA L. ROSEN ENDOWMENT

Sylvia L. Rosen is a respected potter and educator who taught ceramics at SUNY Buffalo State, University at Buffalo, and Amherst Senior High School. In 1987, she and her husband, Nathan, created the Sylvia L. Rosen Endowment for Fine Art in Craft Media at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. It has made possible juried biennial craft art exhibitions with purchase awards, alternating with biennial craft art lectures by field specialists. The first exhibition took place in 1988. Since then, these events have been a major force in the advancement and recognition of craft media in Western New York.

ABOUT THE BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER

Established in 1966 on the campus of SUNY Buffalo State University, the Burchfield Penney Art Center is dedicated to the art and vision of renowned American artist Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967) and the art and artists of Buffalo and our region.