56th annual national juried artists exhibition: the summer show
exhibition opening july 11, 2026 at 6:00pm

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Online entry and payment will be accepted until 11:59 PM in Mountain Time on Saturday, May 16, 2026. Submissions will be accepted only through CaFE.org.

• NOTIFICATION TO APPLICANTS: Results of the selection process will be announced on or before Wednesday June 3, 2026.

• EXHIBITION: The exhibition will be on display July 11 - September 12, 2026, in the Miriam Barranger Gallery of the St. Tammany Art Association in historic downtown Covington. Regular gallery hours are Wednesday to Friday from 10 AM to 4 PM and Saturdays from 11 AM to 4 PM. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

• ARTISTS RECEPTION: Saturday, July 11, 2026, 6-9pm with presentation of awards at 7pm.

• CLOSING RECEPTION: Saturday, September 12, 2026, at 6-9pm

• All events are free and open to the public.

  About the Juror
  MaPó Kinnord (b. 1960, Cleveland, Ohio) is a New Orleans-based artist and educator whose work explores ancestral memory, architecture, and the meditative potential of clay. After early training at Cleveland’s School on Magnolia and apprenticeships with production potters, she earned her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art (1984) and her MFA from The Ohio State University (1994), relocating to New Orleans in 1995, where she now serves as Department Head and Associate Professor of Art at Xavier University of Louisiana. Drawing inspiration from the architectural traditions of Ghana, Kinnord’s ceramic sculptures reflect her extensive research in West Africa and blend structure with improvisation, often likened to jazz. A respected educator, she has taught internationally and at institutions including the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Penland School of Craft, and her work has been widely exhibited, including her 2021 solo exhibition Outside In, Improvisations of: The Ceramic Work of MaPó Kinnord at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

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