Associated Artists

CASH AWARDS

Best In Show $750

Daniel E. Smith
Enter Series "Speak"
Oil, encaustic on linen

2nd Place $600

Susan Roberts
After Bellini, Magnolia and Apples
Digital carbon pigment print

3rd Place $450

Deanna Douglas
Faith and Values
Mixed media

4th Place $300

Linda Egendorf
Bridging the Gap
Silver with patina

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HONORABLE MENTION $25

Cara J. Reische
Yoghurt Series II
Pastel

Gene Stafford
Wagon Pan
Photograph

Gloria Kemper-O'Neil
Don't Sass Me
Fiber quilt

Margie Stewart
Flow
Oil on canvas

David Burpee
Cars and Stripes
Ink jet print

George Schober
Sculptured Chrome
C-print photograph

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PURCHASE AWARDS

Arbor Acres

Justine Linville, $500
Work Place
Oil on canvas

Monica Weber, $500
Sunflowers and Fruit
Acrylic on canvas

David Shannon

Margie Stewart, $840
Flow
Oil on canvas

Idlewild Direct

Phyllis Lear, $200
Two of a Sort
Mixed media

Michael & Ramelle Pulitzer

Faith Bemiss, $500
Neon Diner
Photograph

Darryl & Jane Thompson

Harold Frontz, $500
Horne Creek Farm
Watercolor

Graphic Chemical and Ink

Janice Meister, $500
Scavengers Landmark
Monoprint

Giclee Product Services

Cara J. Reische, $500
My Valentine
Pastel

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The Show

The fall national juried show An American Experience opened in the AAWS and Milton Rhodes Galleries, Thursday, October 23. Juror Will South, curator of the Weatherspoon Gallery in Greensboro, NC, chose the show from 704 slides sent in by 121 artists from all across the country. The selected show consists of 87 works by 83 artists from 27 states. Included in the show are 33 North Carolina Artists and 19 members of AAWS.

American Experience 2003 is a national juried art competition and exhibition to showcase outstanding visual art about the fabric of our cultural heritage. Who are we Americans? Where have we come from? Where are we going? What does it mean to be "American"? The focus of the exhibit is on the diversity and the uniqueness of our experience, our culture, our environment, ourselves. The competition is open to both professional and amateur artists.

The Juror

Will South is the Curator of Collections at the Weatherspoon Art Museum and an Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Art at UNC in Greensboro, NC. After receiving his PhD at City University of New York in 1994, he worked in California and Utah studying various artists. He began by focusing on James T. Harwood and Guy Rose and their impressionist drawings and paintings.

He is recognized in North Carolina as the curator for the Stanton Macdonald-Wright exhibition, "Color, Myth and Music: the Artist and Synchronism," at the NC Museum of Art in Raleigh in 2001. He has also written an article on "Lenoir C. Wright: Professor, Patron and Connoisseur," whose Japanese print collection is at the museum. At the Weatherspoon, Mr. South organized an exhibition, "Matisse and More," from the Cone Sisters Collection to honor the 60th anniversary of the museum.

Mr. South lectures on American Impressionism and the emergence of Modernism. He spoke last year on "Modern Art and the Metaphorical Mind" at the Southeastern Museum Conference in Richmond, VA. His work will be published this year through a project with the Luce Foundation of Visiting Scholarship. A frequent contributor to catalogues, he is currently working on "A History of the Art Students League of Los Angeles."

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