45th ANNUAL
ARTS OF THE TERRACE JURIED ART SHOW
Saturday, September 20th – Saturday, September, 27th, 2025
Mountlake Terrace Library Event Rooms
23300 58th Ave W, Mountlake Terrace, WA 9804
CALL FOR ARTISTS
The entry process is now open for the 45th Annual Arts of the Terrace Juried Art Show – over $5,000 in prize money available! See below for entry guidelines/information, important dates & times, and 2025 juror information. Please review all entry guidelines prior to starting your entry.
About: Sponsored by the Mountlake Terrace Arts Commission and the Friends of the Arts, The Arts of the Terrace Juried Art Show is an annual week-long event held at the Mountlake Terrace Library’s event rooms. The show features five different categories: Paintings/Printmaking/Drawings, Photography, 3-Dimensional, Artisan Works, and Miniatures. Over the past 44 years, the show has become one of the best in the region, attracting artists and visitors to Snohomish County from all over the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
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IMPORTANT DATES
ENTRY DEADLINE: AUGUST 15TH, 2025
NOTIFICATION OF JURY RESULTS: WEEK OF AUGUST 25TH
ARTWORK DELIVERY DATES
September 12th & 13th, 2025
Friday, 9/12th, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Saturday, 9/13th, 11:00am – 3:00pm
SHOW OPEN TO PUBLIC
September 20th – 27th, 2025
Monday – Thursday: 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Friday – Saturday: 11:00pm – 5:00pm
Sunday, 9/21: 1:00pm – 5:00pm
ARTWORK PICK UP
September 28th, 2025
Sunday, 9/28: 11:00am – 4:00pm
GUIDELINES & ENTRY INFORMATION
GUIDELINES
Eligibility
Entry Limits & Fees
Artwork Sales & Commission
Digital Image Requirements
Liability
CATEGORIES
Paintings, Printmaking, Drawings:
Paintings: Oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, tempera, airbrush, gouache, encaustic, collage, mixed media, and calligraphy.
Printmaking: Relief, intaglio, lithograph, serigraph, monoprint, and mixed media with printmaking dominant. No Giclees or photographic prints.
Drawings: Graphite, colored pencil, silverpoint, chalk, crayon, pen and ink, conté and mixed media with drawing dominant.
Photography: Film, digital or altered images originating from a film or digital camera.
Miniatures: Same media specifications as paintings, printmaking, and drawings.
3-Dimensional: Nonfunctional three-dimensional art of any material.
Artisan Works: Fine art crafts based on functional concepts. Includes works in clay, mosaic, metal, jewelry, wood, glass, and fiber.
ENTRY INFORMATION
Paintings, Prints, Drawings, and Photography:
3-Dimensional & Artisan Works:
Miniatures:
HOW TO ENTER
As in past years, entries for this year’s show will be submitted through EntryThingy. If you’ve used EntryThingy before to enter a show, log in to your existing account and then select the 45th Annual Arts of the Terrace Juried Art Show call. If you’re new to EntryThingy, you will be able to create an account on the page linked below.
Important Submission Information:
AWARDS
Over $5,000 in prize money available
Paintings/Printmaking/
Drawings:
First Place: $500
Second Place: $300
Third Place: $200
Honorable Mentions: $50
Photography:
First Place: $500
Second Place: $300
Third Place: $200
Honorable Mentions: $50
3-Dimensional:
First Place: $400
Second Place: $250
Third Place: $150
Honorable Mentions: $50
Artisan Works:
First Place: $400
Second Place: $250
Third Place: $150
Honorable Mentions: $50
Miniatures:
First Place: $300
Second Place: $200
Third Place: $100
Honorable Mentions: $50
Best in Show (selected by Arts Commission):
$500

ART SHOW JURORS
AARON COBERLY – PAINTINGS, PRINTS, DRAWINGS, & MINIATURES
Aaron Coberly was born in Seattle in 1971. He has been drawing for as long as he can remember. He started taking art seriously as a teenager after being invited to attend a life drawing class. Living and traveling in Europe further inspired him. He began oil painting in 1999. His work is primarily figurative with a stylistic nod to the Masters and the Impressionists. Aaron runs an open painting and drawing session in Seattle. He resides in the greater Seattle area and is married with a young son. Every day I work on becoming a better artist.
I believe that art in all of its forms is a way for a person to communicate their feelings to others in an emotional and unique way. I feel that through painting I can show others a world that is inside of me. I enjoy taking elements of the existing world and through paint creating a new vision, a moment, a life that is eternal. I want to share the love that I feel when I look at a painting that touches me. For me creating a connection with the viewer is critical, that is when I feel the life of the painting begins.
My thoughts on painting are as follows. First and foremost composition is critical without an interesting composition a painting or any work of art is dead. Drawing is imperative as well, you have to be able to put what you want where you want it. Then there are the elements of form, how to use value, color, edge control and texture to take a 2 dimensional surface and give it depth and space.
I continue to work every day to crystallize my vision by breaking things down and building them up. I feel sometimes I have to lose myself in order to get a better understanding of where I am going. It can be a scary process but without it I don’t feel that I can grow as an artist.
PAUL LEWING – 3-D & ARTISAN WORKS
Paul Lewing always knew he wanted to be an artist. He started painting in oils at the age of eight and continued into college at the University of Montana in Missoula. There he discovered clay, studying with Rudy Autio, one of America’s best known clay artists and muralists, and earned both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree. After graduate school, Paul moved to Seattle and has been a professional clay artist there since 1972, first making functional pottery and, since 1986, working exclusively on ceramic tile. Paul is known for his painterly style of glazing, and for the wide diversity of imagery, styles and techniques he employs in his tile art. A former mule packer, horse wrangler, and hunting and fishing guide, Paul often shows his love of mountains and the outdoors in his landscape, floral, animal and fish murals. He is also widely respected for his expertise in glaze chemistry. In recent years, Paul has returned to roots in painting and is building a second reputation as a painter, working in acrylics.
Paul is the author of “China Paint & Overglaze”, published by American Ceramic Society in 2007, and star of the companion DVD “New Directions in China Painting”, issued in 2010. Articles by Paul have appeared in Ceramics Monthly, Studio Potter, The Crafts Report, Clay Times, Pottery Making Illustrated and other magazines, and his work has been featured in a number of textbooks. Paul is also active in the crafts community and has been President of both the Washington Potters’ Association and Northwest Designer-Craftsmen, and a member of the Studio Potter Network National Advisory Board. In 2018, he was honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Montana. He has taught at Pottery Northwest, the Factory of Visual Arts, Highline Community College, and at over 170 workshops across the United States, including at least one in every state. He currently teaches glaze chemistry at Kirkland Arts Center, and china painting online through www.TeachinArt.com.
Paul’s work has been shown in many regional and national exhibitions and is included in the collections of the Montana Institute of the Arts, Colorado Springs Art Museum, the Archie Bray Foundation, Pacific NW Bell and Montana Museum of Art & Culture. The Mayor of Seattle once presented pieces of his work to, among others, the King of Sweden and the Queen of Denmark.
DARRELL GULIN – PHOTOGRAPHY
Darrell has been photographing for over 33 years, marketing his work for the last 33 years and 28 of those as a full time Nature/Travel Photographer. He markets his work through Stock Agencies (GettyImages, Danita Delimont), Editorial/Paper Product markets, along with Photography workshops, tours, seminars and speaking engagements.
He is one of Canon’s Explorer’s of Light and also past President of North American Nature Photography Association -NANPA.
His work has been published in Outdoor Photographer, Newsweek, Audubon, National Wildlife, Popular Photography, Our Daily Bread, most top Nature Wildlife Calendars, and Natures Best to name a few.
He is an accomplished speaker/teacher. Leading workshops for Joe Van Os. Also he has been featured on the TV program Canon Photo Safaris.
He has Traveled the World capturing special moments to share with others.