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Furry Friends, the 2024 edition of the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival’s annual Juried Visual Art Exhibition, celebrates the diverse ways in which animals enrich our lives, challenge our perspectives, and inspire our creativity. This exhibition is the result of an open call for artists living and working within a 150-mile radius of downtown Pittsburgh whose work explores the profound and complex connections between humans and animals– be they companions, pets, wildlife, or creatures of myth or imagination.

Each year, esteemed jurors select artists from hundreds of submissions to include in the exhibition. Six individual prizes are awarded, including the prestigious Best in Show award which comes with a $2500 cash prize. Past recipients of the Best in Show award include: Evangeline Mensah-Agyekum (2022), Scott Hunter (2022), Ana Armengod (2019), and Ulric Joseph (2019).

This year's exhibition was juried by:

• Kimberly Diana Jacobs, Exhibitions Manager & Assistant Curator, August Wilson African American Cultural Center
• Anastasia James, Director of Galleries & Public Art, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
• Liz Park, Richard Armstrong Curator of Contemporary Art, Carnegie Museum of Art

Artists:

Tessa Moeller
Trinity Rollins
Fabrizio Gerbino
Jean Plough Shaw
Sandy Kessler Kaminski
Mike Saoud
Cheryl Capezzuti
Don Strange
Olivia Locher
Jeff DiStefano
AJ Evans
Eli Kessler
Amy Short
Alan Byrne
Mary Aston-Richards
Evelyn Dunbar
Jennifer Kelly
Yelena Lamm
Lizz Ford