Midwest Nice Art - Art as Storytelling

Art as Storytelling is our Fall 2024 online juried exhibition hosted on our exhibition site. the exhibition seeks artworks that explore narrative in visual art. We invite artists to explore the ways we share our stories visually. From creating a bedtime story to our histories and mythologies to an Instagram story, narratives inhabit our daily lives. Consider the ways you create and tell stories through your art.

This exhibition will be juried by Aline Smithson (she/her), an interdisciplinary artist, educator, editor, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. Smithson is the Founder and Editor- in-Chief of Lenscratch, a daily journal on photography. She has been an educator at the Los Angeles Center of Photography since 2001 and her teaching spans the globe. In 2012, Smithson received the Rising Star Award through the Griffin Museum of Photography for her contributions to the photographic community and also received the prestigious Excellence in…