Art inspired by food! Apart from depictions of food, this theme can include sources of food (trees, plants, water, sunlight), celebrations with food, social gatherings etc. Open to all media. Cash awards.
A portion of proceeds from artwork sold will go to the Maryland Food Bank.
Made possible by the Whaley Family Foundation
Meet the Judges
Hyoe Choi
Hyoe Jung Choi is an artist and educator having been teaching art at Wicomico High School for 18 years. Her specialty lies in Sumi ink and pigments with which she received national recognition for her work in Sumi ink and for her pastel paintings in Korea. She received a bachelor’s degree in Fine art from Hong Ik University in Seoul, Korea. She immigrated to the United States in 2000 and kept pursuing her study in teaching art at UMES. She taught art at a middle school and a private studio for 15 years in Seoul, Korea. Her favorite mediums have been watercolor and pastels in addition to Sumi ink. These painting mediums’ convenience, readiness, environmentally friendliness, and spontaneity got themselves to be her frequent mediums.
While teaching art, she never stopped creating her art. Her pieces resonate calmness and humble beauty found around her, featuring from delicately branched out body of trees against dramatic sky, symphonies of light and shadow in greens of leaves or in cold red hues on a bearded iris or mesmerizing reflections on a surface of water. She wants to deliver beauty and paradox simultaneously through ordinary scenes or objects; she interprets her subjects having contrasting aspects, yet they are harmonious and beautiful.
Michael J. Morris (Mijomor)
Far from the abbreviated artist name Mijomor, is the complex talent of this Eastern Shore artist. Michael J. Morris has been an artist and educator since 1975. His work has a dynamic illustrative style that reaches out to his viewers.
Mijomor works in different types of media ranging from pencil to monoprinting, but his primary medium is oil painting. His subject matter includes people in day-to-day situations, poetry and painting combinations, landscapes, Afristracts (collaged images of Africa), and surrealism that verges on the side of fantasy. Mijomor’s visual images communicate a sense of magical expression in time, space, and uniqueness of one’s self. Each of his works evokes a mood or theme that screams to be seen, to be read, and to be remembered.
Mijomor (Michael J. Morris) is an artist with a painterly voice that speaks with the softness of a brush stroke, but with the power of a cutting edge.