“Bearing Witness: Betty Reid Soskin” was awarded the Doris Allen & Helen Illig Award For Watercolor at the 83rd Annual Salon Show Awards Show. The exhibit runs through August 15.
This year's show was given the theme "My America". This painting is a watercolor, and you can learn more about the work here.
"This juried exhibition brings together more than sixty works spanning a wide range of media, reflecting the diversity of artistic voices that make up our contemporary cultural landscape. Selected by jurors Elsa Munoz and William Blake, the exhibition embraces the salon tradition of multiplicity and dialogue, presenting artworks that engage its theme from vastly different perspectives. Some artists offer sweeping political statements that confront the nation's past, present, and future, while others turn inward, creating intimate vignettes of family, community, memory, and everyday life. Together, these works reveal that there is no singular vision of America, only a constellation of experiences, a democratic sprawl. The exhibition suggests that a nation, like a work of art, is never singular in meaning; it is assembled and reassembled by those who claim it."
Learn more about the South Shore Arts 2026 annual salon My America
Painting details: This work is available. Inquire using contact form.
