3rd Place Grace Summanen - Untitled (Hay Fizz)

Today's Entertainment at the Cox Fine Arts Center...

Friday, July 29

3 pm Meet President Lincoln

6:30 pm El Ritmo Flamenco Dance Ensemble (Gallery)

7:00pm Scaryonettes at the Fair

Today's Entertainment at the Cox Fine Arts Center...

Thursday, July 28

3 pm Meet President Lincoln

4 pm -5pm Prussia Valley Dulcimers (Patio)

2011 Award Listing

Professional Awards:

Best of Show $2,000

“Bah Bah Black Sheep” Undine Brod

2nd Best of Show $1,400

"The Price of Greatness is Responsibility" Andrew Ina

3rd Best of Show $1,000

“Cousin Duane” Barbara Vogel

Juror’s Choice Award ($500 each)

“Watershed” Catherine Smith Bell

“Watering the Lawn” Kevin Buckland

“Apple” Francis Schanberger

Amateur Awards:

Best of Show $1,000

“Squirt” Isaac Smith

2nd Best of Show $400

“Fearless?” Sarah Ferguson

3rd Best of Show $200

“The Smokey Lava Lamp” Kevin Benson

Juror’s Choice Awards (Three - $500 each)

“Red, the Bull (Memory Painting)” Jules Garel

“Practice” Tom Hart

“Chairs” Karrie Carlyle

Ohio Arts Council (OAC):

Ten Professional Awards ($300 each)

“Conneaut Cycle-Blue Streak” Carol Griffith

“Arrangementin Rust & Ochre Homage to Whistler’s Mother” Susanne Dotson

“Grapes” Jose Luis Quinones

“Waiting” Frederick Fochtman

“Feeding the Deer” Lori Kella

“Dark Table” Jeffery Owen

“Relics” Melissa Vogley Woods

“Baby-Rat” Julie Byrne

“Olentangy 1” Georgie Cline

“Entia per Aggregatum” Nikos Rutkowski

Two Amateur Awards ($250 each)

“The Tinkerer” Owen Simonson

“Watch the Road” Beverly Darwin

One People’s Choice Award $ 500

TBA

Purchase Award $750

“Magical Evening” Morris Jackson

Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC):

Two Professional Awards ($125 each)

“Olentangy 1” Georgie Cline

“Neighborhood Gone” Melissa Vogley Woods

Two Amateur Awards ($125 each)

“2 Minutes” April Hernandez

“Metropolis” Elizabeth Nelson

City of Upper Arlington Award $100

“Delilah Defeats Her Demons” Elizabeth Chrisman

McConnell Arts Center ($250 each)

“Surf Vessel” Kevin Keiser

“Evening Glow” Paul Kramer

Arts Council Lake Erie West Award $ 100

“Memory of Purpose” Sarah Ockuly

New Albany Arts Council Award $ 100

“Out of the Forest“ Elaine Freeman

Southern Hills Arts Council

“Lime Tree Farm” Kit Dailey

SPONSOR AWARDS

Ohio Quarter Horse Association, Inc.:

Professional Award $ 200 “American Flags Diptych” Art Beery

Amateur Award $ 100 "Glenford Summer Dawn" Craig Wales

Roll in the Hay Contest Awards

1st Place $ 300 – Melissa Vogley Woods

2nd Place $ 200 – Michael Mascoto

3rd Place $ 100 – Grace Summanen

Westbridge Camera Club - Two Amateur Photography Awards

Color $100 -“Moonshine Under Peir” Jim Snyders

Black and White $100 -“Kaylea” Karrie Carlyle

Harrison House Bed and Breakfast Award $ 150

“Corwin Nixon Covered Bridge” Aaron Skapik

Hazen-Taft Award $ 100

“Waiting” Frederick Fochtman

William J. & Sheila Riat Award $ 100

“Garden of the Misbegotten” Paula Nees

The Collage of Women Artists Award $ 100

"Tree Peony" Rebecca Taft

Short Film Awards

(Thank you to our jurors Susan Halpern and Chad Dull)

Juror’s Short Film Awards

Best of Show $1,000 - “HOMEless”
 Andrew Ina

2nd Best of Show $300 - “1926/1950/1984” Corey Aumiller

3rd Best of Show $200 - “HOPE”
 Beijing Charlie 


Juror’s Choice Awards ($100 each)

"Lamentations" Nicolette Swift

“Letters from Frank” Joanne Caputo

"Ink"



 Amanda H. Cook

Greater Columbus Arts Council ($250 each)

"Walls"

Corey Aumiller

“Cycles of Overuse” Matt Swift


Ohio Quarter Horse Association, Inc. $100


“Do-Re-Mi-O-H!” Steven Carmona

CONGRATULATIONS to all the following Filmmakers accepted into the 2011 Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition!

2011OHIO STATE FAIR FINE ARTS EXHIBITION

SHORT FILMS

Brandon Antczak- “Birds of Ohio Vol. 2 Issue 2”

Corey Aumiller- “1926/1950/1984”

Corey Aumiller- “Walls”

Steven Carmona- “Unwanted Memories”

Steven Carmona- “Do-Re-Mi-O-H!”

Joanne Caputo- “Letters from Frank”

Beijing Charlie- “HOPE”

Amanda H. Cook- “Ink”

Amanda H. Cook- “Self-Portrait as Marlon Brando”

Eric Homan- “Columbus Lights”

Eric Homan- “Life on Uncle Howard’s Farm”

Andrew Ina- “HOMEless”

Michael Loderstedt- “Winter’s Woodpeckers”

Brandi Mays- “Carriage House Farm”

Michael R Siculan- “Scaryonettes”

Nicolette Swift- “Lamentation”

Nicolette Swift- “Can”

Matt Swift- “Cycles of Overuse”

Matt Swift- “Scenic View”

Acceptance letters are in the mail, along with an invitation to the Opening Reception/Awards Ceremony. All awards will be announced at the reception Tuesday July 26, 2011 6pm to 8pm.

Acceptance List 2011 Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition

CONGRATULATIONS to all the following artist's accepted into the 2011 Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition!

If you do not receive your acceptance letter by Friday June 10, please contact me by email: p.oloughlin@expo.state.oh.us

ACCEPTED AMATEUR

Albon, Timothy

Balson Prem

Barnes, David

Beiter, Darlene

Benson, Kevin

Bleakney, April

Caryle, Karrie

Cook, Rob

Curry, Marilyn

Daily, Kit

Daily, Sharon

Darwin, Beverly

DeLay, Pamela

Doll, Barbara

Enterlin, John

Fogt, Juli

Ford, David

Garel, Jules

Gentilini, David

Golovin, Helen

Gordon, Dennis

Hairston, Jr., Samuel

Halbert, George

Hart, Tom

Hazen, Judy

Hernandez, April

Jozwiak-Butler, Bethany

Kasson, Dylan

Kramer, Paul

Laxton, Bradley

Libbey, Elaine

Murray, Kristane

Nelson, Elizabeth

Ockuly, Sarah

Owen, Larry

Petrosky, Alyssa

Potts, Tara

Reeder, Douglas

Relick, Julia

Rence, Marisa

Ritchie, Melissa

Ruegsegger, Brenda

Ryan, C. Guillot

Savage, Molly

Seabaugh, Jerry

Simonson, Owen

Skapik, Aaron

Smith, Isaac

Snyders, Jim

Stewart, Laura

Stone, Ted

Taft, Rebecca

Telatnik, Sharon

Wales, Craig

Webb, Kimberly

Weller, Nova

Williams, Cherry

Young, Judi

ACCEPTED PROFESSIONAL

Adams, Janet

Antczak, Brandon

Alles, Karen

Bachman, Laine

Baker, Lawrence

Barnes, Ben

Beery, Art

Bell Smith, Catherine

Bogle, Bridgette

Borham-Hays, Carol

Borg, Rick

Brod, Undine

Brouillette, Adam

Buckland, Kevin

Bryne, Julie

Campbell, Karen

Carmean, Matt

Chrisman, Elizabeth

Cline, Georgie

Cudiff, Deborah

Dotson, Susanne

Douglas, Jeff

Dover, Diane

Emory, Paul

Engle, Gary

Fahy, Mary

Farris, Claire

Fochtman, Frederick

Fogt, Chad

Folger, Kelley

Freeman, Elaine

Freiman, John

Gage, Angela

Glaeser, Bill

Glover, Jim

Goldie, Beverly

Graham, Amandda

Greene, Lloyd

Greenwalt, Tracy

Gregory, George

Griffith, Carol

Hays, Michael

Heyward, Bryan

Hill, Nicholas

Hudson, Andy

Ina, Andrew

Jackson, Morris

Jaeger, Tamara

Johnson, Dale

Jurus, Richard

Kalb, Marty

Keiser, Kevin

Kella, Lori

Kistler, Virginia

Kloss, Kristi

Knowlton, Jules

Kortlander, John

Koff, Bernice

Lane, David

Langille, Nicole

Leviton, Linda

Loderstedt, Michael

Mangino, Fran

May, Michael

Montague, Juliette

Moorhead, Emily

Mullet, Sherry

Nees, Paula

Nelson, Ardine

Oldfather, Dana

Owen Jeffrey

Pereyma Christine

Polansky, Tara

Quinones, Jose Luis

Reeser, Katelin

Rond, Stephanie

Rosen, Mark

Rosenfeld, Debbie

Routson, Jason

Rutkowski, Nikos

Sarri, Eliana

Schanberger, Francis

Schreiber, Daniel

Scanto, Jenny

Sheets, Michael

Shellhouse, Ashley

Siculan, Mike

Snyder, Carol

Sorenson, Alissa

Stoia, Lexi

Summauen, Grace

Tallan, Joan

Tammaro, Tina

Trout, James

Tursich, Crystal

Vanover, Nicole

Vogel, Barbara

Vogley-Woods, Melissa

Wallace, Mike

Wesner, Linda

Wilbur, Paul

Woods, Eileen

Zhong, Duan

(Edited 7/11/11)

Zimmerman, Dennis

CALLING ALL OHIO ARTISTS!

The Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition entry deadline is May 22, 2011.

Thousands of dollars will be awarded!

Updated in 2011:
Entry Fees: We are listening to our artists and art councils. We have updated the entry fee process for 2011 to make it more appealing and easier to enter and pay online. This too should help to prevent confusion and entry errors.

Changing from: Paying $25 for up to three pieces of artwork entered (Amateurs)

To: Paying a processing fee of $10 plus $5 for each (up to three) artwork entered (Amateurs).

Changing from: Paying $30 for up to three pieces of artwork entered (Professionals).

To: Paying a processing fee of $10 plus $10 for each (up to three) artwork entered (Professionals).

Film Division: $10 per entry (film shorts - two categories: general or agricultural). THE FILM DIVISION IS NOW OPEN TO ANY RESIDENT OF THE US.

New Competition in 2011:

Come "Roll in Hay" with us - artist can create an on-site sculpture out of hay/straw. And by the way, we'll provide the hay/straw. For inspiration, click here http://www.zuzafun.com/great-hay-art. The creation and exhibit location will be directly outside the Fine Arts Center east lawn area. The fee to enter will be $10 and there's some big bucks waiting for the winners.

The Prospectus will be online soon!