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QUESTIONS? Contact Dalia Reyes, The Scarab Club Gallery Director at dreyes@scarabclub.org

52nd Scarab Club Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Photography

JUROR, Shanna Merola | Submission Deadline: Saturday, May 27, 5 pm

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline: Saturday, May 27, 5 pm

Jury Results: Friday, June 2, 5 pm

Intake: Sunday, June 25th, noon - 4 pm.

Exhibition: June 28-August 12, 2023

Reception: Friday, June 30, 5-8 pm

Gallery Talk: Thursday, July 13, 6 pm

Pick-up: Sunday, August 13, noon-4 pm

The Scarab Club invites submissions for its 52nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Photography. Works may also include video, mixed media and alternative photographic processes. Artists must provide any necessary equipment (monitors, etc.) necessary to display their work. Size limited to 6 ft. x 6 ft. Work must be framed, wired and ready for installation. Participation is open to all artists 18 years or older.

JUROR

Shanna Merola is a visual artist, photojournalist, and legal worker. In addition to her studio practice, she has been a human rights observer during political uprisings across the country ? from the struggle for water rights in Detroit and Flint, Michigan, to Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these events. Merola lives in Detroit, MI where she facilitates Know-Your-Rights workshops and coordinates legal support for grassroots organizations through the National Lawyers Guild.

Merola has been awarded studio residencies and fellowships through MacDowell, the Studios at MASS MoCA, Banff Centre for Arts + Creativity, Kala Institute of Art, the Society for Photographic Education, the Puffin Foundation, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art. Her collaborative projects include Detroit Resists: A Digital Occupation of the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2016), and Oil + Water: Photography in the Age of Disaster Economies (2017). She has shown her work in solo exhibitions both nationally and abroad - most recently at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in South Korea. Merola has held teaching appointments at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Wayne State University, and the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. She is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley in California.