Each year, GNSI members are invited to submit their finest work to our Annual Juried Exhibit, showcasing the latest achievements of practicing visual science communicators. Entries are judged by a panel of expert jurors, recognizing excellence in three categories: 

  -  Scientific Illustration (any media, traditional or digital)
  -  Illustration in Context (infographics, illustrations embedded in larger projects, etc)
  -  Broader Science Visualization (any type of non-traditional science visualization such as animations, fiber arts, game design, etc)

Important Dates:

Juror Information:

Jane Kim

Jane is a visual artist, science illustrator, and the founder of Ink Dwell. Her art career started when she was a little girl obsessively painting flowers and bears on the walls of her bedroom. She received more formal training with a  BFA in Printmaking from RISD and then attended California State University Monterey Bay, where she received a master’s certificate in science illustration. She has created large-scale public art across the country, including the Wall of Birds at The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and produced works for the National Aquarium, the de Young Museum, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, and more. She is the creator of the Migrating Mural campaign, a series of public installations that highlight wildlife along migration corridors it shares with people. She still enjoys painting flowers and bears, though nowadays she doesn’t get in trouble for painting on the walls.

Instagram: @inkdwell
Website: www.inkdwell.com

Dr. Sheryl Smith
Dr. Sheryl Smith is the Assistant Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences at Arcadia University.

Paul Callomon
Paul Callomon is a graduate of the Faculty of Art and Design at Wolverhampton University in the UK. He has worked in graphic design, typography, photography and publication since the 1980s, publishing roughly 10,000 images in print with an emphasis on mollusks. He is the author of “A basic guide to specimen photography in museum collections,” “Standard views for imaging mollusk shells” (American Malacological Society) and the forthcoming “Seashells: a compendium of five thousand of the world’s species.” Mr. Callomon is currently Collection Manager in Malacology and General Invertebrates at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia, where he heads the Invertebrate Zoology Imaging Center.


To view previous exhibits, visit https://www.gnsi.org/image-galleries. If you have questions throughout the submission process, please contact Emerson Harman at [email protected].  

  -  The exhibition is open to members of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. Artists who are not already members are encouraged to join GNSI to participate
  -  Artists may submit up to 2 works created within the last 5 years. 
  -  Student work is accepted but must be of professional quality. 
  -  No photography will be accepted. 
  -  Images should be submitted at the highest resolution possible and not exhibit any pixellation or blurring from file compression.

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  -  Artists may submit up to 2 works created within the last 5 years
  -  Works must not have been accepted into previous Annual Conference Member Exhibits 
  -  No photography will be accepted
  -  No AI images will be accepted
  -  No sales will be conducted as part of this exhibition