Regional art show to open at Hoyt

Staff report

NEW CASTLE, PA.

The Hoyt Center for the Arts’ annual Regional Juried Exhibit will open Sunday with a free public reception from 2 to 4 p.m.

The juror this year is Dan Byer, who is curator of modern art at Carnegie Museum of Art.

Byer narrowed down the more than 300 entries from 125 artists into a comprehensive show.

The 2015 winners, with medium and hometown, are:

First place: “Land of the Free,” acrylic, by Marvin Fields, Verona.

Second place: “Eagle Teapot,” porcelain and cherry, by Tom Hubert, Fairview.

Third Place: “Wm Pollock,” weaving, by William D. Walker, Austintown, Ohio.

Merit awards: “Caught Falling,” cut paper, by Rochel Schiffrin, Pittsburgh; “City Streets,” watercolor, ink and gouache, by Kathleen Kase Burk, Ebensburg; “Pizza Delivery,” oil, by Marian Phillips, Pittsburgh; “Tiger,” watercolor, by Kathleen Zimbicki, Carnegie; “Hood,” oil, by Rabecca Signoriello, New Castle; “Cats With Man,” oil, by Constance Merriman, McKeesport.

The exhibit will be on display in the Hoyt’s main galleries through May 8. Featured alongside it in the Blair Sculpture Walkway is the annual exhibition of the New Castle Camera Club. Admission to the galleries is free and open to the public. The museum is at 124 E. Leasure Ave.

Standard gallery hours are Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, go to hoytartcenter.org.