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AWA announced the award recipients for AWA’s 17th Annual Member Show & National Juried Exhibition during the Awards Ceremony at the Addison Art Gallery in Orleans, MA on August 15, 2014.

 AWA announced the award recipients for AWA’s 17th Annual Member Show & National Juried Exhibition during the Awards Ceremony at the Addison Art Gallery in Orleans, MA on August 15, 2014. The awards recipients were selected by Museum Curator and American Art expert Erin Coe, former Chief Curator of the Hyde Collection. 
AWA congratulates the following artists on their award-winning works and all of the exhibiting artists in making for a gorgeous exhibit.

AWA17th National Juried Exhibit 2014 Award Recipients:
Best of Show –Aimee Erickson for her oil, “Sarah”
Best 2-Dimensional – Jenny Kelley for her oil, “Christabel Roses”
Best 3-Dimensional- Paddi Moyer for her stoneware sculpture, “Sweet Sonora Night”
Award of Recognition – 2D – Susan Lynn for her watercolor, “5 O’Clock Shadow”
Award of Recognition – 3D – Alex Alvis for her bronze sculpture, “Step High!”
Rogue Guirey Simpson Memorial Award – Elizabeth Pollie for her oil, “No.13”
Marilyn Newmark Foundation Award- Burneta Venosdel for her bronze, “Tick Doc”
Southwest Art Magazine Award of Excellence (selected by editor, Josh Rose) – Kelli Folsom for her oil, “Little Red”
Award of Merit – Lori Pandy for her sculpture, “Eleanor”
Award of Merit-Anna Rose Bain for her oil, “Self-Portrait at 23 Weeks Pregnant”
Award of Merit – Barbara Jaenicke for her oil, “Chattahoochee Snow”
Award of Merit – Cathryne Trachok for her graphite drawing, “Sun Dance”

AWA Annual Master & Signature Member Show Award Recipients:
Master Signature Gold – Nancy Boren, for her oil,”Summertime”
Master Signature Silver – Elizabeth Robbins for her oil, “A Fleeting Moment”
Master Signature Bronze- Rosetta for her bronze, “Jasmine II”
Signature Gold – Mary Dennis for her oil pastel painting, “Bare Limb Trees”
Signature Silver – Ann Self for her oil, “Back River Sunset
Signature Bronze- Carol Alleman for her bronze, “Seeds of Harmony

Nancy Boren Summertime

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© Summertime, oil by Master Signature Nancy Boren

 

Dennis Winter Trees

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© Bare Limb Trees, oil pastel by Signature Mary Dennis

Meet Our Awards Juror for the 17th Annual Master & Signature Show & National Juried Competition
Erin Coe, Chief Curator for the Hyde Collection in Glen Falls, NY will be the awards Juror for the AWA 17th Annual Member Show & National Juried Competition at the Addison Art Gallery in Orleans, MA this summer.

Coe is the driving force behind the acclaimed show, Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George co-curated with Barbara Buhler Lynes, a former curator of the Georgia O’Keefe Museum in Santa Fe. The O’Keefe show is currently at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum through May 11.

With 20 years of museum experience, Erin has developed a sensibility as a curator and juror that she is looking forward to bringing to her work with AWA. While studying for her B.A. in Studio Art, Erin found that she was more drawn to the history and tradition of studying art, rather than making it herself. As a juror she looks for originality and freshness within those long-revered and beloved traditions. In speaking about her own criteria, Erin says, “I want something to carry a message and evoke a response – that expression that gets your attention at some level.”

You can find out more about Erin’s work with the Hyde Collection by visiting www.hydecollection.org.