I think my favorite headline ever for a report on an art fair: Grandmother Wins Arts Show. Hooray for grandmothers out there creating art and winning the awards, in this case Carol Elder Napoli who won this $5000 award for the second year in a row. You'll like this story.
Mount Dora has nearly 300 exhibitors and usually you can find a bunch of our members among the exhibitors as well as the prizewinners. Here are this year's winners:
Best of Show $5000 Carol Napoli **
Judges 2-D Choice $1500 William Kwamena-Poh
Judges 3-D Choice $1500 David Figueroa
Wendy Alderman Award $250 Tonya Hedgeman **
Our Community Award $1000 Robert Wince
Carol Napoli - the winning grandmother
Best of Categories $750
Painting Charles Gatewood **
Watercolor Gary Curtis
Clay Don McWhorter
Mixed Media Leslie Peebles **
Glass and Metal Chris McCarthy
Jewelry Patricia Karnes **
Photography Clifton Henry
Sculpture Charles Hazelaar
Fine Craft Jay McDougall **
Awards of Excellence $250
- Amos Amit - fiber **
- Bill and John Slade - glass **
- Craig McMillan
- Laurie Coppedge - photography
- Lori Jenkins
- Aaron Hequembourg - mixed media
- Deborah Barnes
- Daniel Christie
- Ning Ling
- Fred Tate - jewelry
- M.H. Meyers
- Jeff Eckert
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Judges Statement
Overall we were pleased with the quality and diversity of the work presented. It was a pleasure to see new artists participating as well as the new Emerging Artists. Our Best of show selection derived from a very high quality of selected entries. It was not an easy decision. For the Best of Show we sought a work which seemed to marry the medium, the technique and the content with a unique voice.
Here are a couple of articles from the Orlando Sentinel: Mount Dora Festival had Judges on the Run. I'll bet -- how do you get through 300 booths in a day? Learn how they did it, plus a nice bunch of photos if you are wanting more info on the show.
I know a bunch of you were at the show. What do you think of these winners? How fast were the judges?
Comments
Congrats Carol!!! That is a great award.
Carol, what an inspiration you are!! I am a newbie to the art fair circuit and many of my pieces are very spiritual so I loved seeing your work. You are a great inspiration. Thank you!