Clatsop Community College in Astoria, Oregon invites artists to submit artwork to the 2025 International Juried Exhibition, Au Naturel: The Nude in the 21st Century. The 2025 Au Naturel exhibit will be open for viewing at the Royal Nebeker Art Gallery from January 23 through March 13, 2025 with a special community reception on Thursday, February 20th at 6:00 p.m.
The Au Naturel competition is open to all artists from around the globe working in two dimensional drawing, painting, or printmaking media with a focus on the nude human figure as subject matter in any form from representational to abstract, and in which the handmade mark is employed as the primary means of image-making. This year, a limited number of three-dimensional works may also be considered. Entrants must be 18 years or older. Submitted artwork must have been executed in the last five years and must be available for the duration of the exhibit.
Visit the exhibit website to view artwork from previous Au Naturel exhibitions and for further information about the show. Applications are now being accepted online via the CaFÉ™ website. Applications must be received on CaFÉ™ by Midnight (11:59:59 pm) Mountain Time on November 29, 2024. There is a $45 fee for the submission of up to three images, and $5 for each additional image submitted.
2025 exhibit awards will include $1,000 in cash prizes and up to $2,000 in purchase awards. One or more artists may be chosen to be featured in a group or solo exhibit in the Royal Nebeker Gallery, and a select number of Visiting Artist Workshop awards may also be granted.
the 2025 exhibit juror
Serving as juror for the 2025 exhibit is Laura Ross Paul, a Portland based artist, teacher and arts cheerleader. She has been painting professionally for over four decades and has been represented by nine different galleries on the West Coast from Seattle to Laguna Beach. She has exhibited her work throughout the Pacific Northwest and California and New York in such venues as the Portland Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Arnot Museum (NY), the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Art Gym and Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Her figurative paintings with mystical and psychologically compelling environments are in private and public collections throughout the United States. During her career, Laura has received an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Arts Fellowship, the Bonnie Bronson Fellowship and the Susan Cooly-Gillion Artist residency. Her work been awarded juror prizes in biennials at the Portland and Tacoma Art Museums as well as the latest West Coast Biennial at the Turtle Bay Museum in Redding California. A Hollywood feature cable TV film, “Spy”, built a character featuring her work, and she’s been honored by multiple writers asking to use her work on the covers of their books.
For more information about the Au Naturel exhibition, email kshauck@clatsopcc.edu or call 503-338-2472.
