WINNERS
Best of Show:
Natalie Blake named 2008 Best of Show Winner - $3,000 cash award.
"Purple Urchin". Hand-thrown, carved, porcelain vessel with hand-thrown/built, porcelain lid. 15" H x 13" W
1st Place Winners:
Each 1st Place winner receives a $500 cash award and qualifies for the final leg of the competition, Best of Show.
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Basketry
JoAnn Kelly Catsos
black/white potbelly basket of natural and stained black ash splint, maple rims; 7"h x 7"w x 7" l: Teal |
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Ceramics
Natalie Blake
"Purple Urchin". Hand-thrown, carved, porcelain vessel with hand-thrown/built, porcelain lid. 15" H x 13" W |
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Glass
Rick Strini
glass, rondells, 12-16" diameter and lit from behind. Glass Ceiling |
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Gourds
Jennifer Avery
"The Hunt" Gourd bowl with pyrography, carving and turquoise inlay. Measures 5" tall by 10" diameter. |
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Metal
Melissa Manley
"Caught in the Current" bowl.
Copper glass enamel.
Approximately 8"x 9" |
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Mixed/Other Media
Lawrence Favorite
Wooden bowl sculpted by hand (not turned). 11" x 10 " x 9". Desert ironwood with turquoise inlay in a trailing vine motif. |
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Turned Wood
Keith Burns
This lidded hollowform is turned from a piece of Macassar Ebony from Indonesia. It measures 5-1/2" dia. x 6-5/8" tall with the walls at 3/16". No finish applied, just waxed and buffed. |
State Finalists:
AK - Jill Choate
AL - Mary Segreto
AR - Mark Cothren
AZ - Bernard Nicholas
CA - Julie Zarrow Erickson
CT - Karin Noyes
FL - Bernard Montoya
GA - Christie Moody
IA - Ernest Koch
IL - Peter Patterson
KY - Dennis Shaffner
LA - Andi Moran
MA - Lois Russel
MD - Charlene Randolph
ME - Sarah Shepley
MI - Judy Geerts | MN - Val Bolen
MS - Gabriella Delawey
MT - Dave Kirk
NC - Mike Lalone
NJ - Lauren Bellero
NY - Lynn Goodman
OH - Laura Donnelly
OK - Toby McGee
OR - Shannon Weber
SC - Amy Goldstein-Rice
TN - Louis Colombarini
TX - Teri Carson
UT - Curtis Fuller
VT - Sandra Lance
WA - Dorothy McGuinness |
We have a couple of additional winners to announce:
Autumn Jones of Georgia - our youngest participant - will receive a total of $150 in gift certificates donated by Golden Artist Colors and Blick Art Materials.
Juror Cheryl Stoyle is the winner of a handcrafted artisan bowl from BeautifulBowls.com, host of the 2008 Art in the Round Contest.
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