Call for Artists: 18th Annual Juried Exhibition

The Idaho Falls National Exhibition is an annual juried exhibition by the Idaho Falls Arts Council (IFAC) and exhibited at the Willard Arts Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Artists working in all mediums throughout the United States are invited to submit. This is an open show with no geographic boundaries.

Four cash prizes will be awarded: first place ($750), second place ($500), third place ($250), and Curator’s Choice ($125). Honorable Mentions and People’s Choice will also be awarded. Awards sponsored by John & Kathy Andary, Fred & Linda Hughes.

Opportunities

• More than 5,000 exhibition visitors each year
• Exhibition artworks are included in a full color catalogue & on IFAC’s website
• The People’s Choice award winner is featured on all promotional materials for the next year

Titan by Isabel Albertson, 2025 Peoples' Choice

Yidan Guo (NWS, NWWS, IWS) is a professional artist and educator whose practice explores the human experience through the lens of migration and resilience. Her own transformative journey—leaving a professorship in China to rebuild her life in the United States in 2013—deeply informs her work. Over the past five years, Guo has developed an ongoing project that amplifies the voices of immigrant and refugee women, interweaving narratives of displacement with universal threads of endurance and hope through collaborative storytelling.

Guo holds an MFA from Idaho State University (2024), a Master of Philosophy in Esthetics from Renmin University of China, and a BFA from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. She has taught at Renmin University, Southern Utah University, and Idaho State University.

Her work has been featured in eleven solo exhibitions across China and the United States and has earned numerous awards in national and international juried exhibitions. Guo’s paintings are included in institutional and private collections worldwide, including the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, the Chinese Artists Association, Southern Utah University, the University of Missouri–Kansas City Foundation, and the Northwest Watercolor Society.