Award Winners at AWA’s 2017 Exhibition at the Tucson Desert Art Museum Announced

“The Tucson Desert Art Museum is proud to be a part of history in hosting the first of American Women Artists’ 25 in 25 shows. What an outstanding show!  It truly reflects the superb quality of our nation’s best women artists.”  – Rhonda Smith, Director, Tucson Desert Art Museum

Congratulations to the following artists who won awards at the reception, Novembers 3, 2017, for Under A Vast Sky, an exhibition of works by American Women Artists at the Tucson Desert Art Museum. Thanks go out to our three awards jurors: Christine Brindza, Curator, Tucson Museum of Art; Mark Sublette, President, Medicine Man Gallery; and Rhonda Smith, Director, Tucson Desert Art Museum, who had the difficult task of selecting the award winners out of 145 works.

Grand Prize Award – 
Pensive I by Christina Kuo

Purchase Award, Tucson Desert Art Museum –
Lees Ferry Landing by Lili Ann Laurin

Distinguised Acheivement Award (Landscape, Seascape or Cityscape) –
Look Skywards by Anne Harkness

Distinguished Achievement Award (Figurative or Portraiture) – 
Sengalese by Linda West

Distinguished Achievement Award (Still Life) –
Cherries and Reflection by Soon Y. Warren

Distinguished Achievement Award (Sculpture) –
Amber Waves by Tucker Bailey

Friends of Western Art Award of Excellence –
Crossing the Divide by Elizabeth Pollie

Natural History Interpretation Award of Recognition (Painting or Drawing) –
Along the Fireline by Kathrine Lemke Waste

Natural History Interpretation Award of Recognition (Sculpture) –
I Spy by Cathryn Jenkins

Marilyn Newmark Foundation Award –
Celestial Joy by Carol Alleman

Southwest Art Magazine Award –
Lees Ferry Landing by Lili anne Laurin

Art of the West Award –
Morning Awakening by Cecy Turner

American Art Collector Award –
Beyond the Sky by Terry Cooke Hall

Fine Art Connoisseur Award – 
Pensive I by Christina Kuo

Award of Excellence –
The Feed Mill, Marfa by Julie Davis

Award of Excellence –
Tethered Together by Jenny Buckner

Award of Excellence –
Boundless Sanctuary by Linda Glover Gooch

Award of Excellence –
His Own Drum by Suzi Baker

Award of Excellence –
Compliments by Cathryne Trachok

Award of Excellence –
The Joke – Jokester & Guffaw by Star Liana York

Award of Excellence –
An Old Friend by Sarah Webber

Award of Excellence –
Intertwined by Allison Kroll
 

King of Frames Award – 
The City Awaits by Kelly Birkenruth

King of Frames Award –
Boundless Sanctuary by Linda Glover Gooch

King of Frames Award –
Cherries and Reflection by Soon Y. Warren

To view the entire show, click HERE