Annual Exhibition Awards

ANY MEDIUM

The Bernadette Award
DELANY CONNER
Think Again, punch needle embroidery,
30 x 24 x 1 in.

Cecile Adler Cliffer Memorial Cutting Edge Award
YUAN BUTLER
A Gift of Darkness, oil paint, 24 x 24 in.

Bobbi Maastrangelo Environmental Art Award
LESLIE TEJADA
Forest Inscape #28, acrylic on wood panel,
20 x 16 in.

The Matilde and Mark Memorial Award
ARLENE ROBBINS
The Falls, watercolor, 23 x 19 in.

Gloria Devereaux, AWS Memorial Award
RANDY GLOBUS
Support Group, watercolor, 45 x 51 in.

NAWA Merit Award
DENISE CORMIER
Becoming What Was Discovered at the Beach, acrylic and gold leaf, 44 x 24 x 2 in.

NAWA Merit Award
ANAMARIE LIDDELL
Blue Ridge Sonnett #48, graphite, 30 x 46 x 1 in.

NAWA Merit Award
JANICE MAURO
It’s a Man’s World III, Douglas Fir, 21 in. x 3 ft. with pedestal

NAWA Merit Award
BARBARA O’SHEA
Sea Trance, photography, 24 x 18 in.

NAWA Merit Award
CARMEN SCHAEFER
Rome Remembrance, graphite, 32 x 24 in.

NAWA Merit Award
CATHERINE TOULSALY
Nyami Nyami, marble, 26 x 7 x 8 in.

PAINTING

Lazy Day South Philly

Elizabeth Stanton Blake Memorial Medal of Honor Award
MARGARET MONTGOMERY
Lazy Day, South Philly, acrylic on canvas,
15 x 19 x 2 in.

Helen Stark Andrey Memorial Award
KARLENE MCCONNEL
Window with Flower Pot, mixed media,
30 x 24 x 1.5 in.

Raissa Ageeva Award
ROSEMARY COTNOIR
Twisted Vine #1, acrylic, 16 x 20 in.

Miriam Russo Enders Award
ELISE BEATTIE
Doorways to Alternate Universes, poured watercolors, fluid acrylic, paper and collage,
28 x 24 in.

The Liana Moonie Memorial Award for an Innovative Abstract Landscape
SHELLY HOLTZMAN
Rebound, oil. 21 x 17 x 1 in.

Solveig Stromsoe Palmer Memorial Award for Conservative Portraits
ELIZABETH MYERS CASTONGUAY
Tree of Knowledge Tapestry of Nature/Endangered, acrylic with handmade paper, 16 x 20 x 2 in.

Audrey Hope Shirk Memorial Award for Figure Painting
JULIA CHRISTIAN
Woman on a Cell Phone, oil, 26 x 22.25 x 1.5 in.

Caroline M. Lupori Fund Memorial Award
LINH VIVACE
Fools Gold, oil on canvas, 24 x 22 x 1 in.

Marilyn Omer, Syllables

Sandi DeFranco Giannini Memorial Award
MARILYN ORNER
Syllables, oil on wood panel, 30 x 24 x 1 in.

WORKS ON PAPER

Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Medal of Honor Award
CAROL BAUM
Veil 2, watercolor, colored pencil

Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Award
JOCELYN BENFORD
Flourishing, watercolor and mixed media on paper, 25 x 21 x 1 in.

Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Award
DESPINA ZOGRAFOS
Two layers of hand cut paper, foam board, chip board, 15 x 15 in.

Eve Helman Memorial Award
DEBRA ARTER
Pond Song, drypoint with monotype and hand additions, 17 x 15 in.

Miriam Shorr Memorial Award for Watercolor Works on Paper
CHRISTIE DEVEREAUX
Always Follow the Light, ink on yupo paper,
12 x 16 x 1 in.

Dorothy Cochran Award
L.L. ERDMAN
Winter Walk 3, monoprint, 14 x 12 x 1.5 in.

Olivia Koopalethes Memorial Award
CHRISTINA WILLIAMS
Sunset Rays, soft pastel on sanded paper,
16 x 20 in.

PHOTOGRAPHY/DIGITAL

Judith Cantor Memorial Medal of Honor Award
CYNTHIA FLEURY
Sheldon Ruins, colored infrared print on vellum gilded with 24kt gold leaf, 15 x 13 x 1 in.

Elizabeth Horman Memorial Award
ROZ DIMON
QR Code for Lincoln, digital fabrication to ink on paper, AP1, 14 x 14 in.

Virginia Stukey Memorial Award
CAROLYN MCLEOD
Rustic Barn, digital photograph, 17 x 21 in.

Clara Viau-Deluca Memorial Award
MAYYA BORK
Pastel Pink Hands, digitally manipulated photography, 25 x 19 x 1 in.

Mary E. Slocum-King Memorial Award
CAROLYN ROGERS
Canal Dreaming, platinum/palladium photography, 11 x 14 in.

MIXED MEDIA/COLLAGE

Anna Walinska Memorial Medal of Honor Award
CLAUDE LARSON
Closing the Gap, fiber, 27 x 29 x 2 in.

Judith Cantor Memorial Award
RHONDA URDANG
Sadako Sasaki (Hiroshima, Japan, 1955), collage with hand-cut found paper, historical elements, decorative rice paper, 20 x 16 x 1 in.

Harry L. Coleman, Documentary Film Producer, Memorial Award
MELANIE REIM
Moder Day Odalisque, acrylic, handmade paper, paper, graphite, pastel, 16.6 x 20 in.

Globus Family Award in Loving Memory
of Ric Globus

JULIE WEAVERLING
No Tension, fiber on panel, 13 x 13 x 1.5 in.

Elsie G. Hammond Memorial Award
LYNNE KROLL
She-Tree, collage with mixed media, 21 x 19 in.

SCULPTURE

Caroline M. Lupori Fund Memorial Medal of Honor Award
MAIDY MORHOUS
Bondage, bronze, 4 x 14 x 17 in.

David and Leon Antar Memorial Award
RAISA NOSOVA
Squeeze Like a Sandwich, blown glass, bread, resin

Virginia Hammond Memorial Award
YOKO COHEN
Afterthought, ceramic, 11 x 8 x 8 in.

Anne Harter Appleby Memorial Award
GEORGETTE VEEDER
The Cost of a Pennycast handmade rag paper wall sculpture, 30 x 16 x 2 in.

Kaufman Award for Ceramic Sculpture
COLLEEN SWEENEY GAHRMANN
Domestic Duties Strained, ceramic, 4 x 9 x 4 in.

Linda Stein Award
TRICIA ADLER
Together, wood, found metal, magnets, 10 x 8 x 3 in.

FIBER ARTS

Elise Wiarda Award for Healing in Fiber Arts
SANDRA GIUNTA
Coral Group, 3wool roving, 13 x 9 x 5 in.

Dame Vivienne Westwood Memorial Award
MUFFY CLARK GILL
Wash Day! Pink and Green House, batik on silk, 18 x 24 in.

STORIES IN FRAMES

Hiroko Maya Okahashi

First Place
HIROKO MAYA OKAHASHI (HI)
Metamorphosis printed on watercolor paper using liquid light, 20 x 15 in.

Sawyer Rose

Second Place
SAWYER ROSE (CA)
Bety and Her Work, archival pigment print, 36 x 24 in, w/frame 37 x 25 in.

Rhonda Urdang

Third Place
RHONDA URDANG (AZ)
Black Ghost Lady (Canyon Diablo), b/w photograph, silver gelatin print, 18 x 12 in.

TODAY, PITTSBURGH, PA

First Place
CAROL BAUM
Veil, watercolor and colored pencil on paper, 35.75 x 26.5 in.

Second Place
SHEILA GRABARSKY
How’d We Get Here, acrylic on canvas,
36 x 24 in.

Third Place
CAROL BORAM-HAYES
Hydrozoa, cast rubber and reclaimed metal, 7 x 10 x 7.5 in.