2026 MFAC Exhibiting Artists

Juried by Marshall N. Price, Ph.D

Marshall N. Price is the Chief Curator and Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and serves as adjunct faculty in the university’s Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies. He received a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Before joining the Nasher Museum, Price was Curatorial Assistant at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and from 2003 until 2014 held the position of Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Academy Museum, New York. He has organized numerous exhibitions including Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960, Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, 1967-75, Jeffrey Gibson: Said the Pigeon to the Squirrel, and John Cage: The Sight of Silence, among others.

Congratulations to the following artists whose artwork (as listed) has been juried in to this year’s Michigan Fine Arts Competition.

Aitken, Susan – Orange Over Gray

Bartlett, Karen – Doors

Bashtova, Mariia – The Equilibrist’s Dream

Bashtova, Mariia – Carpe Diem

Burkhart, Nik – A Longer View

Cannell, Doug – Juiceberries

Cannell, Doug – Tear for Danny Chen

Carson, Barbara Melnik – Now For Something Completely Different

Cass, Robert – Cantilevered Toolform

Clark, Alisa – Suspended Becoming

Collins, Alexandra – Chalice

Collins, Alexandra – Jubilee

Day, Pamela – Reaction

Duff, Edward – Autumn Reflections

Eaton, Roxy – Liturgical Procession

Foley, Nathaniel – SU-47B

Freed, Kenneth – Gregory Gillespie Memorial Altarpiece

Galbreath, Lynn – Soot On Lake Michigan

Gallup, Karen – Dancing on the Edge

Gomez, Ricardo – Karma 1

Grossnickle, Brian – Harlequin Jar

Hakoyama, Tatsuki – All the Words Bound to Fade

Hakoyama, Tatsuki – The Echoes of Goodbye

Hansen, Kelly – Me and Lisa

Hartunian, Susan – Beauty In The Foothills

Hawtin, Matthew – Makeshift

Houseman, Glenn – Plant Growth

Hupp Andrews, Jjenna – Invisibility is a Superpower

LaFerle, Douglas – Escape Velocity

Law, Eric – Shadow Play #2

MacInnes, Corinne – Tunnel

Marsalese, Anthony – My Dad’s Tape Measure

Matak, Sally – Outreach

Matlen, Terry – Wendell and Fifi’s Wish Fulfillment

Mersmann, Armin – Portait of Tall Greg

Miller, Ashley – Fire Escape

Miller, Ashley – No Such Thing As Flightless Birds

Miller, Steve – Loops, Wavelengths, and the Veil of Decay

Mitchell, Adam – Upādāna Prospecting Primary Commodities

Moffitt, Ron – Ha! You’re so silly. ( girl joke )

Morisseau, Carole – Urban Crown

Nika, Melisa – Grandpa

Oconnor, Susan – Obsolete

Ocwieja, Montgomery – January

Orlando, Russell – Now and Then

Orlando, Russell – Tata

Ortbring, Todd – ROSA (Rosa Parks)

Owen-Murakami, Ginger – Bird Man

Owen-Murakami, Ginger – Paper Planes

Peng, Stone – Dawn walking rice field #3

Perrish, Bob – Saginaw Blues

Pershon, Kae – Cerise Summer

Raboin CPSA, Kimberly – Hive Mind

Raboin CPSA, Kimberly – My Cup Runneth Over

Raguso, Tony – Smokey Burgess

Reatherford, Nicole – Surface Tension

Ritacco, Lucia – Marie

Romero, Melanie – Label

Rosseau, Gwenn – Structures of Belief

Ruehle, Philip – Rose-Colored Glasses

Russell, Brenda – Huron Hustle

Sandu, Sebastian – INFINITUDE

Schumack, Mark – Urban Roots

Sharbaugh, Chuck – BONES

Stanislav, Ellie – The Woods

Teste, Laura – One Wild and Precious Life

Willis, Emily – Vessel #14 (Candy Wrapper)

Zapico, Mark – San Miguel Chapel, Santa Fe

Ziolkowski, Norman – Form 26.5