Over $25,000 in awards!
Congratulations to the award winners of AWA’s 2018 show Full Sun: American Women Artists Illuminate the Haggin Museum, on August 2, 2018, at the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California. Awards Jurors were: Barbara Flaherty, Retired Associate Professor of Fine Art at the Univeristy of the Pacific, Lucinda Kasser, Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting at the Department of Art and Graphic Design, University of the Pacific, and Lisa Cooperman, University Curator, University of the Pacific. From the 101 paintings and sculptures in the show, the following works were selected for awards, in addition to four Purchase Awards:
F&M Bank Purchase Awards:
Light of Autumn by Romona Youngquist
Delta Twilight by Paula Holtzclaw
Celestial Promise by Christine Drewyer
Early Afternoon, Napa Valley by Amy Leung
Best of Show Award:
Reflection by Gladys Roldan-de-Moras
Distinguished Achievement Awards:
Landscape, Seascape or Cityscape
Lone Cloud by Julie Davis
Figurative or Portraiture
Naivete by Ginger Bowen
Still Life
Sophistication Abandoned by Jane Hartley
Sculpture
Majestic by Elisa Adams
Magazine Awards:
Fine Art Connoisseur Award of Excellence
Rachel and Val on the Bed by Beth Peck
Western Art & Architecture Award of Excellence
Crisscross by Kim VanDerHoek
American Art Collector Award of Excellence
The Artist’s Husband by Sandra Corpora
Frances Trachok Memorial Award of Excellence
Light of Autumn by Romona Youngquist
Natural History Interpretation Award of Recognition
Broken Circle by Sally Maxwell
Awards of Excellence:
Fruited Valley by Laurel Daniel
Highland Matriarch by Judy Takacs
While the World Burns by Sharon Pomales Tousey
Katie by Phyllis Mantik deQuevedo
This oustanding exhibition can be viewed HERE.
Executive Director Robin Knowlton presents Beth Peck with her Fine Art Connoisseur Award of Excellence