Press Release

2005 Visual Art Competition Winners

NEWS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 29, 2005
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First Place, Two Dimensional Category: What a Pear, oil on canvas, Susan Chaney

NAPA VALLEY MUSTARD FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF ANNUAL VISUAL ART COMPETITION

The Napa Valley Mustard Festival, non-profit sponsor of the Napa Valley Mustard Festival's 12th Annual Visual Art Competition, announces this year's prize winners. The exhibit is 52 pieces from 41 artists and was selected from 224 entries from 91 artists. With the competition open to all California artists, and with entries from as far away as Laguna Niguel and Lake Shasta, the jurors have made their decisions.

Two Dimensional Work

$1000 First: What a Pear, oil on canvas, Susan Chaney, Novato
$500 Second: Desire's Migration, oil on board, Heather Martin, Mill Valley
$250 Third: Cherubinis's, oil on canvas, Hilary Mills Lambert, Alamo
Honorable mentions: Evening of the Toast, charcoal drawing, Mercedes Baker, St. Helena; Touch the Earth Lightly, oil on canvas, David Jensen, Sonoma; Lithia, oil on board, Catherine Moreno, Mill Valley; and Satin 563X, handwoven jacquard, Ruth Tabancay, Berkeley.

Three Dimensional Work

First Place, Three Dimensional Category: Vertical Spiral, fiber, Allester Dillon

$1000 First place: Vertical Spiral, fiber, Allester Dillon, Mill Valley
$500 Second place: Nike, tar paper, Sheila Tuffanelli, Kentfield
$250 Third place: Asleep, handstitched teabags, Ruth Tabancay, Berkeley
Honorable mentions: Maelstrom, boxwood, Nick Lamb, Lake Shasta; Captive Foreign Journalist, ceramic, Lorenzo Mills, Napa; and Similarity Study 5, handmade flax, paper, thread, Bonnie Stack, Berkeley.

Jurors

Giselle Kappus, Sausalito sculptor and curator; G. Jay Golik, architect, painter, sculptor, and professor of art and art history at Napa Valley College; and Michael Schwager, adjunct curator, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, as well as professor of art history and director of the University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University.

Visual Art Competition Exhibit & Artists' Reception

The show was unveiled and sales began at Mustard Magic, The Festival's Grand Opening Event, Saturday, January 29, at The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, in St. Helena. St. Supéry Winery and Vineyards hosts the exhibition from February 1 through March 24, and the work is available for sale. Winery will host a wine and hors d'oeuvres reception for artists and the public on Saturday, February 5, 5 - 7 p.m.

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Second Place, Two Dimensional Category: Desire's Migration, oil on board, Heather Martin

Second Place, Three Dimensional Category: Nike, tar paper, Sheila Tuffanelli

Third Place, Two Dimensional Category: Cherubinis's, oil on canvas, Hilary Mills Lambert

Third Place, Three Dimensional Category: Asleep, handstitched teabags, Ruth Tabancay

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• Visual Art Competition
• Visual Art Competition Exhibit
• Visual Art Competition Artists' Reception
• A Weekend of Fine Art
• More Art Info
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