Buenaventura Art Association announces a call for entries for the 23rd annual Open Competition at the Buenaventura Gallery, 700 E. Santa Clara St., Ventura.

The exhibit will run Jan. 20 to 31.

The bring-in for the artists will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sun. and Mon., Jan. 18 and 19.

The awards ceremony, with more than $1,000 in prizes awarded, will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Sat., Jan. 24.

The juror will be Dennis Reed, dean of fine, performing and media arts at Los Angeles Valley College.

Reed has taught drawing and painting for 20 years, mainly at Los Angeles Valley College. He is a writer and curator who has organized oneperson exhibitions of artists Doug Harvey, Emerson Woelffer, Walter Askin, Richard Pettibone and others.

He is best known for his work in photography, having organized exhibitions for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Oakland Museum, The Huntington and other institutions. He has written numerous essays and two books on photography.

He recently assumed the role of chair of the Photographic Arts Council at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

For more information and an entry form, go online to www.BuenaventuraGallery.org.