Fairbanks Arts Association (FAA) invites artists (18+) residing in Interior Alaska to enter original artworks for consideration in the 40th Annual 64th Parallel Juried Exhibition! Artists are welcome to submit up to four (4) artworks through the online registration form linked at the bottom of this post, or in person. Fairbanks Arts holds annual juried exhibitions to showcase new work by Interior Alaskan artists and contracts with artists, university faculty, curators, and museum professionals (statewide and nationwide) to assure the broadest spectrum of critical appraisal for our exhibitions. The juror will select works that align with their curatorial vision for the exhibition, taking into consideration the artworks’ creative and technical merits when making their determinations.
We are pleased to share that our 2026 guest juror is Christopher Burch! Learn more about this year’s juror below.
AWARDS
Juror’s Choice / $200 ￭ Second Place / $150 ￭ Third Place / $100
Jared Baker “Gutsy Art Award” / $75 ￭ Honorable Mentions
ENTRY FEE
Online Registration before Thursday, September 24 at 11:59 p.m.: $5 per piece. Limited to four (4) entries. Current Fairbanks Arts members at the “Artist” level or above receive a fee waiver on the third entry only.
Day-of Registration on Sunday, September 27, from 12-4 p.m.: $6 per piece. Limited to four (4) entries. No fee waivers for day-of registrations. Make checks payable to Fairbanks Arts Association.
CALENDAR
Deliver entries to the BEAR GALLERY, 3rd floor, Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts, Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way
| Thursday, Sept. 24 | 11:59 p.m. | Online Registration Closes |
| Sunday, Sept. 27 | 12–4 p.m. | Artwork intake and in-person registration ($6 per entry) |
| Monday, Sept. 28 | All Day | Jury of Artwork, Bear Gallery closed |
| Monday, Sept. 28 | 6:30 p.m. | Juror’s Talk in the Active Learning Lab, Noel Wien Library |
| Tuesday, Sept. 29 | 12 p.m. | Emails sent notifying selected and not selected artwork |
| Tuesday, Sept. 29 & Wednesday, Sept. 30 | 12–6 p.m. | Pick up for entries not selected |
| Friday, Oct. 2 | 5–7 p.m. | First Friday Opening Reception |
| Friday, Oct. 2 | 6 p.m. | Award Ceremony |
| Oct. 2 – Oct. 30 | 12–6 p.m., Mon.–Sat. | Gallery Open Hours |
| Sunday, Nov. 1 | 12–4 p.m. | Pick-up for exhibit entries |
Terms & Conditions
Participating artists must review and agree to the exhibition’s terms and conditions in full before registering artwork, which includes criteria covering eligibility, exhibited artwork, code of conduct, and hardware/display instructions. To review the complete exhibition terms and conditions and to register your artwork online, click on the button below.
Guest Juror: Christopher Burch
Christopher Burch is an artist and educator based in San Francisco, CA, and St. Louis, MO. He received the Painting Fellowship for his graduate studies at the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA 2008).
He shows globally and has exhibited with The Museum of African Diaspora, Luggage Store Gallery, White Walls Gallery, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and The Headlands Center for the Arts.
Christopher Burch’s works conflate the distinctions between lived/living human experience, mythology, folklore, and history. Otherworldly yet infused with a gripping sense of reality. Within Burch’s works, influenced by the accounts of painting, narrative, portraiture, landscape, folklore, surrealist literature, and Black rituals of transfiguration (both sacred and secular), we see life and death, rebirth, retribution, and the afterlife as an ever-evolving thematic structure. Here, we see the artist as a storyteller, expounding upon human testimony, at the intersection of myth, identity, and power, as a transmutable force within lived, living, and felt experience.
JUROR’S TALK
Monday, September 28th at 6:30 p.m.
Active Learning Lab in the Noel Wien Library
(1215 Cowles St, Fairbanks, AK 99701)
This event is free and open to the public
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