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