July 5, 2007

From: Laura Harris, Director of Media Relations
(318) 342-5447, lharris@ulm.edu

Ward’s paintings accepted at art competition
in El Dorado

Robert WardAn art faculty member at the University of Louisiana at Monroe has had paintings accepted at the Annual Juried National Art Competition at the South Arkansas Arts Center in El Dorado, Ark. Robert G. Ward, professor of painting and drawing, will represent the university with two landscape acrylic canvases titled "Chromatic Pulsations" and "An Exchange from the Grapevine."

Artists residing in the United States were eligible to submit up to three entries completed in the past two years, to be jurored by Mississippi museum consultant Patti Carr Black. Black selected works by 36 artists for display at the SAAC Merkle and Price galleries.

Ward's paintings and works will be on view from
July 5 – 27. An artists' reception will be held at the SAAC facility at 110 East Fifth Street in El Dorado on Saturday, July 14.