2025 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition
2025 PICCOLO SPOLETO JURIED ART EXHIBITION
The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs presents the 2025 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition, on view May 23 – June 8. This annual juried art exhibition highlights the recent work of artists across South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina and features painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and photography. Artworks receiving prizes are presented alongside a limited selection of pieces identified by the juror as meriting display. This year’s juror is Zinnia Willits.
City Gallery will be open every day of the festival, May 23rd through June 8th, from noon until 5pm.
Invited artists for this year’s exhibition include:
Fairoozan Abdullah
Anne Abueva
Elizabeth Hasegawa Agresta
Jacqueline Anderson
Mary Archambault
Douglas Balentine
Timothy Banks
Emma Barnes
Donald Bennett
Anne Berry
Debanjana Bhattarcharjee
Carmen Bilton
Chris Bilton
Tyler Blanton
Elizabeth Borowsky
Caroline Bowie
Chelsea Bradley
Louise Britton
Leslie Burns
Micheline Callicott
Belle Connor
Lese Corrigan
Tom Curtis
Nancy DeMore
McKenzie Drake
Arun Drummond
Sunny Dublick
Chetna Dugal
Sonny Dugal
Vassiliki Falkehag
Maria B. Fernandez
Sumaya Florez
Sharon Foxworthy
Dominick Fusco
Sean Gallagher
Rosemary Giusti Dillon
Monique Gross
Chris Harmon
Jan Hayden Herda
Katie Heatley
Casey Hebel
Scott Henderson
Edie Hering
E.B. Heston
Charles Hite
Cynthia Holt
Michael Horan
Kirsten Hoving
Karen Hughes
Ingrid Humphrey
Becky Hurwitz
M Jason
Anne Jennings
Christine Johnson
Clay Johnson
Dan Jones
Danielle Jones
Renee Kahn
Ryan Kasyan
Mary Glenn Keadle
Ben Kelly
Deborah Kinard
Valdeko Kreil
Christopher Lane
Flavia Lovatelli
Jim Malecky
Kim Malecky
Robert Maniscalco
Marion Mason
Doug McAbee
Ervin McDaniel
Judy McSween
John Michiels
Dan Mohan
Bruce Nellsmith
Stefanie Neuner
Dale Niles
Scott Penegar
Kathleen Pompe
Marie Powell
Greg Rawls
Alexandra Reed
Christine Bush Roman
Deborah Rosato
Dave Rush
Nicholas Rypkema
Abhishek Singh
Lauren Tillar
Sheryl Stalnaker
Kathleen V. Stuart
Andrea Stubbs
Laura Szweda
Stuart Tessler
Beth Tockey Williams
Kenny Vaden
Veronica Volborth
Nathalie Watson
Hampton Watts
Rae Weekes
Nolan Wright
Tatiana Zalapskaia
ABOUT THE JUROR
Zinnia Willits is the Executive Director of the Southeastern Museums Conference and has served as the Administrator of SEMC’s Leadership Institute and Jekyll Island Management Institute since 2020. Prior to this role Zinnia served as the Director of Collections and Operations at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina. She also serves as Adjunct Faculty at the College of Charleston and George Washington University. Zinnia completed two terms on the American Alliance of Museums National Program Committee and is a current Accreditation Reviewer and a Peer Reviewer for the Museum Assessment Program.
Zinnia earned a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Illinois and received her Master of Arts in Public History from the University of South Carolina. She is a member of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, serves on the Boards of Charleston Area Therapeutic Riding and the South Carolina Arts Foundation and facilitates monthly convenings of the Southeastern Art Museum Directors Consortium.
ABOUT CITY GALLERY:
City Gallery, located at Joe Riley Waterfront Park, is owned by the City of Charleston and operated by the City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs, presenting an annual program of exhibitions and events featuring the finest contemporary art from local, regional, national and international artists, with a focus on the Lowcountry. City Gallery is located at 34 Prioleau St. in downtown Charleston, and gallery hours of operation are noon until 5pm, Wednesday through Sunday. For more information and holiday closures, visit www.charleston-sc.gov/citygallery or call 843-958-6484.
