Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival
The 57th Annual Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival
May 2 - May 11, 2025
Entry deadline February 28th, 2025.
Acceptance e-mails to be sent before end of March.
Please complete the information below to submit artwork for the annual Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival. Images attached to the entry form should be submitted as a high quality JPEG file with a minimum of 72 dpi and and a maximum file size of 3MB.
The form should be submitted with a non-refundable $30.00 entry fee. After completing the information on the entry form you will be redirected to the PayPal website to complete your payment.
Submission of an entry into the Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival exhibit constitutes an agreement by the artist to all conditions listed above.
Rev. Tom Peyton
Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival of First United Methodist Church, Alexandria, Louisiana, was established in 1967 to encourage use and understanding of the arts as a means of healthy expression. The First Annual Festival presented the first juried art competition in Central Louisiana. For more than half a century, the Festival has offered a variety of exhibits as well as programs of music, film, literature and drama. The Festival was renamed in 1980 to honor the memory of The Rev. Tom Peyton, a former associate minister whose ministry to the entire community’s arts and educational efforts was especially significant. An endowment in Peyton’s memory contributes to the Festival’s budget, which is otherwise supported by patrons’ gifts and grants. The Festival enjoys the guidance and services of the church’s staff and the use of its facilities. The core of the Festival remains the juried art exhibit.
The 57th Annual Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival May 2 - Ma
Lily Brooks, Juror
Lily Brooks holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art + Design. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and featured in publications such as NPR’s Central Standard and the Los Angeles Times. She is the 2019 recipient of an Archive Documentation and Preservation Grant from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation for her ongoing project, The Spillway. Her editorial clients include NPR’s weekend edition and the Financial Times.
Lily teaches as an Assistant professor of Photography at Southeastern Louisiana University and was recently named Edward G. Schlieder Foundation Endowed Professorship in Environmental Studies and Sustainability. She lives and works in Baton Rouge and is a member of The Front, an artist-run project gallery in New Orleans..