Flight
Nicolette Jelen

This Spring, artists across the U.S. and Canada – many of them new to us – submitted over 600 images to our “Art of Inspiration” Print Competition. Led by David Ross, former director of the Whitney Museum of Art and San Francisco MoMA, our jury selected ten finalists from among them.

Then, the competition culminated in an unprecedented online vote. In May, we invited visitors to our website to tell us which images spoke to them. This month, The Guild unveiled the three winners of the print competition online and in our catalogs.

Grand Prize winner Nicolette Jelen is a master printmaker whose work explores the use of color and light. Her prints and paintings draw the user into places of the imagination. I look at her winning print entry, and I want to go there…and stay for awhile.

Congratulations to Nicolette, and thanks to all who worked to make our first print competition a resounding success!