AWA Award Winners Announced At Rockwell Museum

“Thank you for sharing your talent as interpreters of the world around us. Your artwork is important, and your voice amplified.” – Award’s juror Lynn Dates, Executive Director, 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY

AWA’s show at the Rockwell Museum, January 19 – April 22, 2018, concluded with an Awards Ceremony and Artists’ Reception on the evening of April 21. There were 75 works in the show and over $15,000 in cash and merchandise awards were announced. The distinguished awards jurors were: Dr. Constance Sullivan-Blum, Executive Director of The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes, Rick Pirozzolo, Executive Director of the Arnot Art Museum and Lynn Dates, Executive Director of the 171 Cedar Arts Center. 

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR AWARD WINNERS!

Rockwell Museum Purchase Award
Under the Elevated, etching by DeAnn Prosia, Associate with Distinction (CT)

Grand Prize
Just the Two of Us, oil by SaraJane Doberstein, Signature Member (On, Canada)
 

Distinguished Achievement Award, Landscape, Seascape, or Cityscape
Down by the Tracks, pastel by Carol Strock Wasson, Signature Member (IN)

Distinguished Achievement Award, Figurative or Portraiture
Dinah, oil by Lauren Tilden, Associate with Distinction Member (NJ)

Distinguished Achievement Award, Still Life
Still Life with Copper Pot and Pears (the Light, the Shade), oil by Abigail Ryan, Associate with Distinction Member (PA)

Distinguished Achievement Award, Sculpture
For Our Fallen: A War Horse Tribute, bronze by Nancy J. Sams, Associate with Distinction Member (MO)

Art of the West Magazine Award
Vanishing Farmland, oil by Jeanne Mackenzie, Signature Member (CO)

Western Art & Architecture Award
Fox Family, bronze by Pokey Park, Signature Member (AZ)

Southwest Art Magazine Award
Walking Tall, watercolor by Jenny Medved, Associate with Distinction (FL)

Natural History Interpretation Award of Recognition
The Panther, stainless steel by Mary Taylor, Signature Member (NY)

Mariyn Newmark Foundation Award for Best Sculpture Done in an Academic Manner
Toltec Player, Little Brother of War, bronze by Burneta Venosdel, Signature Member (OK)

Award of Excellence
Morning Shadows, oil by Laney, Master-Signature Member (WY)

Award of Excellence
Negotiations, oil by Sheri Farabaugh, Signature Member (CO)

Award of Excellence
Eight Men Working, oil by Dianne Massey Dunbar, Master-Signature Member (CO)

Award of Excellence & People’s Choice Award
Layers of Grief, oil by Judith Dickinson, Associate of Distinction (CO)