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
$100 BLICK Art Materials Giftcard
Burkhart, Nik – A Longer View
Cannell, Doug – Juiceberries

Cannell, Doug – Tear for Danny Chen
$1,000 MFAC Award
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
$250 Corinne Maillard Robinson Award
Foley, Nathaniel – SU-47B

Freed, Kenneth – Gregory Gillespie Memorial Altarpiece
$2,000 MFAC Award
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
$500 MFAC Award
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
$100 BLICK Art Materials Giftcard
Nika, Melisa – Grandpa

Oconnor, Susan – Obsolete
$300 BLICK Art Materials Giftcard
Ocwieja, Montgomery – January
Orlando, Russell – Now and Then
Orlando, Russell – Tata
Ortbring, Todd – ROSA (Rosa Parks)

Owen-Murakami, Ginger – Bird Man
$250 MFAC Award
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
$500 BBAC President’s Award
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


