2025 MOJA Arts Festival Juried Art Exhibition
The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs presents
2025 MOJA Juried Art Exhibition
at City Gallery and the Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston
The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs presented the 2025 MOJA Juried Art Exhibition, on view at City Gallery December 12, 2025 through February 1, 2026 and at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture from November 16, 2025 through February 1, 2026.
This annual juried art exhibition highlights the recent work of artists across South Carolina, as well as those based in communities proximate to the Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor in the adjacent states of Georgia and North Carolina, featuring painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and photography. Artworks receiving prizes are presented alongside a limited selection of pieces identified by the juror(s) as meriting display.
This year’s exhibition was juried by staff of the Avery Research Center: Daron Calhoun II, Facilities, Outreach, and Public Programming Coordinator and Race and Social Justice Initiative Coordinator; and Tey Sanders, Outreach & Public Program Coordinator.
Invited artists this year included: Oyindamola Adewale, Brittany Alston, Robert Ariail, Wynter Bell, Carlos Bilal, Tyler Blanton, Carolina Bowie, Chelsey Bradley, Eric Bridges, Jamil Burton, Julie Byrd Diana, Colleen Cannon-Karlos, Stephen Cefalo, Brigitte Codron, Alice Colin, Belle Connor, Heather Conyers, Jabriel Davis, Ty Davis, Nancy DeMore, Stasea Dohoney, Joseph Dreher, Arun Drummond, Benjamin Elam, Lucille Elliott, Renne Fleuranges-Valdes, Sumaya Florez, Harriet Forbes, Rodney Foster, Ayana Gadsden, Alvin Glen, Timothy Green, André Griffin, Monique Gross, Benjamin Gufford, Kenish Harmon, CoCo Harris, Barton Hatcher, Malik Hayward, Karyn Healey, Cory Hines, Shannon Hopkins, Albert Howard, Lori Isom, Caseline Jenkins, Cynthia Jesup, Christine Johnson, Danielle Jones, Celeste Joye, Michelle Kaye, Mary Keadle, KELA, Alison Kelly, Ben Kelly, Wesley King, Valerie Kramer, Alia Kroos, Gary Kunkelman, Anita Laudone, Thomas Lipkins, Flavia Lovatelli, Jennifer Lutz, Tiana Lynaé, Elizabeth Macias, Robert Maniscalco, Ervin McDaniel, Dan Mohan, Anthony Montagna, LeeAnn Morrisette, Justin Moultrie, Aldo Muzzarelli, Sekelle Nathan, Stefanie Neuner, Jeleata Nicole, Shadai O’Neal, Samira Owens, Habibur Rahman, Shamsad Rahman, Kevin Russell, Schenayda Salido, Taylor Sanders, Chantiana Staley, Bonita Strickland, Andrea Stubbs, Fenton Thompson, Julia Vanderpool, Tina Vincent, Calvin Walton, and Nathalie Watson.
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