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‘Celebrating Life! 2012’ Art Exhibit At Charleston Heights Arts Center
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Senior Juried Fine Art Competition Winners Announced
The winners of the Celebrating Life! 2012 juried fine art competition will be on display at the Charleston Heights Arts Center through July 11. Additional entries may be viewed in the Salon de Refusés, located inside the gallery at Charleston Heights Art Center, through June 20. Admission is free. Center hours are Wednesday through Friday, 12:30 to 9 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., at 800 S. Brush St. Award-winning pieces from the 2012 Celebrating Life! exhibit will travel to the City Hall Chamber Gallery to be displayed July 26-Sept. 6, 2012.
This is the 12th year for this popular fine art competition, which is open to all Clark County artists age 50 or older. Sixty-seven artworks were selected for the juried exhibit out of the 231 works entered this year.
At the May 25 ceremony held at the Charleston Heights Arts Center, 25 works of art in six media categories were awarded. Each media category was judged and awarded separately, $250 for first place, $150 for second, $100 for third and a plaque for honorable mention. This year’s judges, Bill Leaf, Jim Pink, and Mary Warner, selected Jeffrey Oldham’s piece, “Boys of Summer,” to receive the Best of Show award of $500. Rita Deanin Abbeyand Vicki Richardson were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards. Nevada Healthcare Partners sponsored a $200 Golden Brush Award this year, selecting the painting “Forgotten” by Joani “Koelsch” Zingale as the winner. Other award winners include:
Artist Artwork Place
Drawing and Pastel:
- Rhoda Pidgeon Wild Things First Place
- Pat Kuramoto In Conversation Second Place
- Stewart Freshwater Amanda Third Place
- Judi Rosenthal Shelf Life Honorable Mention
Painting (Oils-Acrylics)
- Lincoln Maynard Mojave Sequence First Place
- Lolita Develay Secrets to Tell Second Place
- Leslie Fox Shades of Zion Third Place
- Rita Ramirez Appreciate Your Life Honorable Mention
- Roseann Gilmore Fruit Seller Honorable Mention
Artist Artwork Place
Mixed Media
- JoAnn Stransky On the Job Site First Place
- Mary Heinrichs Golden Artichokes Second Place
- Drina Fried Pillars of Creation Third Place
Photography
- Robert Oberman Republican Debate First Place
- Michael Stillman Clark Life is a Carousel Second Place
- Vernon Rowlette Weathered Third Place
- Kevin Buckley Back in the Day Honorable Mention
Sculpture
- Gail Seidner Cake Walk First Place
- Rainer Bertrams Confessions of a Butterfly Second Place
- Shari Bray Earth Science Third Place
Watercolor
- David Mazur Burros Gone Wild First Place
- Nancy Stillwell Colorful Dimension Second Place
- Katherine Christensen Serendipitous Third Place
- Sandra Taylor Monument Valley Honorable Mention
- William Hill Misty Morning Honorable Mention
Call (702) 229-1012 for more information on the exhibit, or (702) 229-6383 for more information on the Charleston Heights Arts Center.