Welcome to the 46th Annual BMFA Juried Art Show

2026 BMFA Juried Art Show
Ontario Artists

 

 

The Juried Art Show is running from April 15, 2026 to June 13, 2026 , Wednesday to Saturday from 11 am to 3 pm at 65 Simcoe St. Collingwood.

We were very pleased to have had 233 entries submitted for jurying by 162 artists.  We have selected 161 entries for the live show at the BMFA at 65 Simcoe St, Unit 1 in Collingwood.

The award ceremony for the Adult Fine Art and Adult Fine Craft categories takes place Friday April 17th, 2026 between  7 pm  and 8:30 pm.

The award ceremony for the Student 2D and 3D category takes place Sunday  April 19th, 2026 between 1 pm and 2:30 pm.

Thank you to our Jurors, Sarah Filion, Bryan Wall, Beverley Smith,  for scoring, commenting and selecting the award winners this year.

This year’s award winners are;

Adult Fine Art

1st Place –  Brian Barrer for “Laundry Day, Iron your own dam shirt”     

2nd Place – Ryan Mcpherson for ” Portrait of Josh”

3rd Place – Robert Pointer for ” Cruise ship confidential #3 – Liberty Ship”

Adult Fine Craft

1st Place –  Nola Hart for “Claire always enjoyed shcool, despite what her report card said”

Student 2D / 3D

1st Place – Alistar Galligan for “Smoke Break”

2nd Place – Elisa Hernandez for “Keys”

3rd Place – Andrew Carter for “Doing what’s right”

Jurors Choices

Sarah Filion

Adult Selection :  Vaughn Gilson  for “Wetland”

Student Selection : Cole Hadleycrane for “A quiet house among colours”

Beverley Smith

Adult Selection : Christine Marshall for “Sunlight & Shadows – Cockatoo”

Student Selection: Ariele Grillmayer for “Ladies of Shalott”

Bryan Wall

Adult Selection : Nancy Newman for “Keeping Afloat”

Student Selection : River Jackson for “Small Mouth Bass”

 

To view the award winning art and online gallery show as well as vote for your favourite piece of art, please click https://bmfa2026juriedartshow.artcall.org/pages/web-gallery

Voting closes for the People’s Choice Award on May 15, 2026 and the top 3 voted pieces of art will be announced on May 16th, 2026.