Throughout time, artists have been skilled practitioners of self-reflection and introspection by constantly developing and analyzing a growing awareness of their self. This year’s county-juried exhibition highlights the variety of artistic thought processes and ideas that artists use to create solutions to their own struggles with self-reflection.

*This year’s work was selected by Mr. John Coppola, who served as Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Exhibits Central, providing design, production and installation services to the national museum complex. He was appointed by President Obama to the National Museum and Library Services Board. Mr. Coppola has organized and managed exhibitions for the Museum of Latin American Art, the Smithsonian Latino Center, The National Museum of Women in the Arts and major international exhibitions such as “Isamu Noguchi: What Is Sculpture?” at the Venice Biennale and “An American Century: Three Generations of Wyeth Art” in the Soviet Union. He recently co-curated a 30-year retrospective of Peruvian photographer Lorry Salcedo.