Professional and amateur artists, 18 years and older can submit up to 2 entries in any medium; cash awards and certificates

About the Judges:

BELLAMY PRINTZ – bellamyprintz.com – Bellamy has a BA from Macalester College in St. Paul, BFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, and MFA from The University of Washington, Seattle. She co-founded Zygote Press in 1996. Her work has been shown locally at MOCA Cleveland, William Busta Gallery, Morgan Conservatory and internationally at the Gallerie Drei in Dresden among others and is in notable private and corporate collections including the State of Ohio Governor’s Office, The Progressive Art Collection and Cleveland Clinic Collection. She is the recipient of several national and federal grants including an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in 1999. She and her partner at Zygote, Liz Maugans, were recipients of the Martha Joseph Award of the Cleveland Arts Prize in 2012. She is a Curator for the Art Program in Cleveland Clinic’s Arts & Medicine Institute.

JASON K. MILBURN – jasonkmilburn.com – Born and raised in the small town of Spencer, OH, Jason received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2003 in drawing and printmaking and recently completed his MFA in drawing at Kent State. He has exhibited locally at ARTNeo, William Busta Gallery, SPACES, Morgan Conservatory and many other local institutions, and nationally in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and North Dakota, among others. His work is in several private and corportate collections, most recently the Metro-Health Hospitals permanent collection. He is the recipient of many awards including a residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA from the Ohio Arts Council and an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council.

Exhibition Pieces:

Andrea Serafino- Tube Sponge Interpretation
Bob- Maurer- Winter Fog
Chris Gray – Missing in Action – First Place
Danielle Dore- Saige, Ode to the Chicken
Darlene Beiter- Pipe Dream
David Grumbach- The Sandblaster
Derek Brennan- Something Blue
Donna K. Bargar- Robin #1 – Best in Show
Edward Beyer- Black Barn #3
Gail Crum – Survivor
Gayle Pritchard- Queen Bee, Lost Angels
George Kocar- Pablo’s Figure Drawing Class
Grace S. Lin – Portrait of a Challenged Woman
Hadley K. Conner- You’ve Got The Key
Jane Altshuler- He’s Mine and He’s Fine
Janet Frazee Wade- Stop the Words
Jennifer Fitchwell – Lakeview
Jennifer Leach- Silverlake II, Super Real
Jennifer Lee- Holding and Letting Go
Jereme Westfall- Lament of Icarus
John W. Carlson – Yellow Whirlygig
Judy Takacs- Ephemera Defender
Karen Jewell-Kett – On Eagle’s Wings 2
Kathryn Sowecke- Zinnia and Hummingbird, Still Waters
Kelly Stockard- Kellyrulez17
Ken Marshall – Lovers
Kenneth W. Smith- Sunrise
Larry Kasperek – Patriotic Youth – Director’s Prize
Laura and Gary Dumm- Washed Away in the Digital Reign
Linda Halas Papajcik- Rail Rider
Lisa Schoenberg- Earth Vista, Coral and Blue Moon / Wind Event X 2, #4 – Third Place
Mark Alexander Inglis- The Visit
Megan Dardis- Katrina
Micha Kraus- Ho-chun, Esnas Madrid
Mike Jackson- Shell Game
Misty Hughes- Hoboken – Honorable Mention
Nancy Schwartz-Katz- Distance and Time
Nicole Maye Luga- Sundown
Olivia Williams – Untitled
Pamelinda O’Keefe- Open Window (After Matisse)
Patricia Schroeder- The Owl and the Pussycaterpillar, Bird
Paula Zinsmeister- Ochre Veil
Robbie Grodin- Ecoprint Meets Nunofelt
Robert Parry- Old Quebec City
Sean Crum- Storm Troopers
Sharie Wilkins- Center Street
Sharon Pomales- 1540 Broadway NYC – Second Place
Stephanie Sibits- Emerald City
Stuart Pearl- Frozen Vernial Pool Acacia Reservation
Tim Carroll- tuesday 1620, Palinchrome Tree #3
Timothy Gaewsky- Homage (TMNT), Homage (Duck Tales)
Timothy Herron- Stone Mad
Wayne Mazorow- Swamp Loose Strife, Cranberries and Cotton Sedge

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