2025 Converse Emerging Young Artists Juried Exhibition Accepting Entries
![A group of people on a roller coaster; some are happy, others are indifferent. Art by Alyssa Lewis](http://4nm.jyycl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Alyssa-Lewis-Art-Me-My-Father.jpg)
Converse’s Department of Art and Design will begin accepting online entries for the 2025 Emerging Young Artists Juried Exhibition beginning December 1, 2024.
High school students in grades 9-12 are invited to submit entries via their teachers until February 14, 2025.
The Converse Emerging Young Artists Exhibition provides a venue to recognize exemplary artworks of high school students and to help them begin to prepare for a major in art while still in grades 9-12.
This opportunity also introduces them to the Converse University Department of Art, Design & Letters, and the variety of majors offered to students at Converse.
Submissions will be accepted until February 14, 2025. Only online submissions will be accepted.
Awards: 1st ; 2nd; 3rd place in each medium: Drawing, Painting, Mixed, Printmaking, Ceramics, Sculpture, Fibers, Digital Media, Photography; and Best in Show.
Accepted submissions will be exhibited in Milliken Art Gallery beginning March 11 through March 23, 2024. A reception and award ceremony will be held in the gallery on Saturday, March 23, 2024.
Artwork featured above: “Me, My Father, vs Everyone Else” by Alyssa Lewis, 12th grade, Fort Dorchester High School; Kevin Morrissey, teacher