Best of Show - Aaron Hequembourg 
Aaron has intriguing work, mixed media, painted on old wood salvaged from sharecropper houses and imagery he has rescued from old family farms in Georgia.
Best of Show Emerging Iowa Artists - Sodam Lee
Awards of Excellence
Don McWhorter
Shellie Bender
R Michael Wommack
Taman VanScoy
Susan Hill
Juror Awards
Sarah Rishel Juror Award - Jim Ochs
Rebecca Ekstrom Juror Award - Michael McKee
Ann Harmon Juror Award - Seung Lee
Storm takes out $25,000 in glass
My old friends Mark and Julie Glocke had nearly $25,000 in glass destroyed by a wind gust.
A sudden gust sent a half dozen glass sculptures by Mark and Julie Glocke shattering onto Grand Avenue, prompting a collective cringe from everyone within earshot.
At Arts, Beats & Eats in 2011 Mark and Julie's glass got caught up in high winds also and they had to pack on Saturday night and head home. Julie got hit by flying debris that time. Hope this is the last time this happens to you two. Best wishes.
