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Our theme art was created by Alyce Machcinski.

OUR 2025 JURORS are

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Leslie Sobel, visual art

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Phillip Sterling, poetry

POETRY WORKSHOP

with local poet Nancy Nott

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Saturday, March 29, 10 am - noon

Cost $20, limit 15 participants

call the church or send us a message to sign up

We're pleased to host a

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WATERCOLOR PRACTICE CLASS

led by Kay Severson

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Five Tuesdays beginning April 1

Limited to 12 participants ~  Cost $70

Subject focus TBA

contact the church for a registration form

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The 2025 Westminster Art Festival

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April 26 - June 12, 2025

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Visual artists and poets are invited to submit work on the theme 

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"ONE PLANET"

Poetry submissions:  March 1 - April 7, 2025
Visual art submissions: March 31 - April 7

see submission times

Please note that we have found a modest increase in entry fees necessary for 2025, to enable us to cover the costs of the Art Festival. 

Thanks for your understanding!

2025 EXHIBIT OPENING

Saturday, April 26, 4:30 - 7:30 pm

Artist Reception

with music from Selkie

The Westminster Art Festival is an annual independently-juried presentation of visual art and poetry on an environmental theme, open to artists of any or no faith tradition.  

Dawn Edwards_Our House.JPEG

      First Prize, 2024:

     "Our House"   by Dawn Edwards

POETRY BOOKS ...are still available

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These beautiful books include all the

2024 poetry submissions as well as images of the art from the exhibit.

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             Suggested donation $5​

We are grateful for grants from the Beim Foundation and the Presbytery of Lake Michigan,

which made the establishment of the Westminster Art Festival possible.

The Westminster Art Festival is a program of Westminster Presbyterian Church.

Westminster Art Festival   1515 Helen Avenue  Portage, MI 49002

269-344-3966

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