Member Art Show Award Winners

this year’s winners

Best of Show

The Artist’s Helper by James Stahlhut 

Best in Show: James M. Stahlhut, The Artist’s Helper, Oil

“There are obvious reasons to be attracted to this painting – its scale is ambitious, it has figures and it tells a story. I am attracted to it for additional reasons. The compositional structure of the painting is complex – the figures inhabit the foreground with a hill and trees in the middle ground and the TC Steele residence near the center top of the painting in the far distance. The painting has a nice sense of light. Are the figures perfectly painted? No, but to me they feel vividly present and get across an amusing anecdote without hitting you over the head. The painting also holds interesting incidental specifics in the form of the camp chair and the French easel.”

Tim Kennedy, Judge

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Professional/Advanced

• 1^st Place: Scott Miller, Elm Street Green, Watercolor
• 2^nd Place: Anne-Karine Bley, Grassy Dune, Oil
• 3^rd Place: Dixie Ferrer, An Afternoon by the Stream, Oil & Cold Wax

Amateur/Emerging Artist

• 1^st Place: Tobie Hall, Echinacea with Butterfly, Oil
• 2^nd Place: Rose VanArsdall, The Field, Oil
• 3^rd Place: Rose VanArsdall, Too Little, Oil

Additional Awards

• Honorable Mention: Lynne Gilliatt, Nikki’s Braid, Pastel & Acrylic on Paper
• Honorable Mention: Donna Shortt, Rhythm in the Way, Oil
• People’s Choice: Nevaeh Lister, She Glows, Pencil Drawing

(L to R) Professional 1^st Place: Scott Miller, Elm Street Green; Youth 1^st Place: Y Sarah Stonerock, Green Heron

Youth Awards

• 1^st Place: Sarah Stonerock, Green Heron, Acrylic
• Honorable Mention: Abigail Maxwell, Haybales on a Summer Day, Oil

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