We are happy to announce this year’s Midwest competition juror: Eric Crosby, Assistant Curator, Visual Arts, Walker Art Center

The deadline is Thursday, February 28th, 2013 (Midnight EST)! Apply online! If you are an artist residing in:  IL, IN, IA, MI, MN, MO, OH, or WI, this one is for you!

Learn more about our juror, Eric Crosby, after the jump!

Eric Crosby is Assistant Curator, Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis where he has been on staff since 2009. He recently co-curated Painter Painter, a group exhibition about the practice and language of abstract painting today, and The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with music by Hans Berg, which toured to the New Museum, New York and to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. His other projects for the Walker include: A Shot in the Dark (2010), Tacita Dean: Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS… (2010), and Artists’ Cinema (ongoing). His recent publications include an essay on Djurberg for Parkett, and “Remarks on Surface: An Interview with Alex Olson” on walkerart.org. Crosby received a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT and a master’s degree in film studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Artists can now apply online! Simply visit our competition page and follow the instructions. Submitting is easy! Just have four jpegs, less than 1200 pixels at their greatest dimension, and a credit card for the entry fee. Go online and enter today!