Erie Art Museum, in collaboration with PennWest Edinboro, will hold its 102nd annual Spring Show to promote and award local artists for their work.

Keliy Anderson-Staley, 2022 Guggenheim Fellow and 2013 George and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellow, was selected as the official juror for this year’s Nicole & Harry Martin Spring Show, open April 3 to Aug. 8 at the museum.

In addition to jurying at the Spring Show, Anderson-Staley will visit the Edinboro campus March 12 and 13 and will meet with students and the community at 6 p.m. March 12 in the Dr. William P. Alexander Music Center recital hall.

Anderson-Staley’s jurying and visit on campus are part of the now 26-year partnership between the Erie Art Museum and PennWest’s Visiting Artist and Speaker Endowment committee, which aims to identify and host an art professional as the official juror for the museum’s annual show.

Born and raised off the grid in Maine, Anderson-Staley developed a passion for the arts, specifically photography. She is known for her experimental artist’s books and tintype portraits.

After earning her bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College in Massachusetts, she earned an MFA from Hunter College, New York City, and later worked as a professor of photography and video at the School of Art, University of Houston.

Her collections are held in such notable places as The Library of Congress, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Portland Museum of Art.

Anderson-Staley’s work has been exhibited at many locations including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., Shelbourne Museum in Burlington, Vermont, and the Zillman Art Museum in Bangor, Maine.

Her exhibitions of public art include 50 portraits installed in the Rapid Train Tunnel at Cleveland Airport in 2016 and a large work commissioned in 2019 which includes 19 of her portraits in Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport.

The Spring Show is open to artists who live, work or study within 250 miles of the City of Erie, including Canada. According to the Spring Show Prospectus, a total of $15,000 in cash prizes and sales are expected.

The show is open to all media, including but not limited to, painting, photography, graphics and sculpture.

For more information, visit Nicole & Harry Martin Spring Show.