National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame’s Third Annual Photo Finish Exhibition Opens Nov. 5
The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame’s third annual Picture End: Juried Pictures Exhibition will open within the Museum’s von Stade Gallery on Friday, Nov. 5, along side Breeders’ Cup weekend. Since its inception, the Museum’s juried images exhibition program has acquired submissions from photographers hailing from 27 states and three Canadian provinces.
This 12 months’s exhibition options 45 pictures by 34 photographers from 12 states. A further 14 pictures can be included within the on-line exhibition as online-only entries, bringing the whole illustration of the third annual Picture End exhibition to 14 states (California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin). The chosen pictures doc the whole racing expertise, from the farm to the backstretch to the winner’s circle, together with a number of pictures that showcase how Covid-19 impacted the racing world in 2020. The net exhibition can be obtainable on the Museum’s website.
Annually, the Museum invitations novice {and professional} photographers to submit pictures for consideration. The one requirement is that every submitted {photograph} should relate to the game of thoroughbred racing in North America. A panel of judges representing each the racing and humanities communities selects the pictures for exhibition. This 12 months’s jurors included Louise Kerr (Govt Director, Saratoga Arts), Shannon Luce (Director of Communications, The Jockey Membership), Skip Dickstein (Eclipse Award-winning photographer), Sally Jeffords (Nationwide Museum of Racing trustee, chair of the Collections & Reveals Committee), and Cate Masterson (Director, Nationwide Museum of Racing).
The third annual Picture End: Juried Pictures Exhibition will stay on show via Feb. 20, 2022. The decision for submissions for the 4th annual exhibition can be introduced in early 2022.
For extra details about the Museum, together with particular occasions and program choices, please name (518) 584-0400 or go to our web site at www.racingmuseum.org.
