We had a great time at Scope: the NC Landscape last night at the Visual Art Exchange, followed by dinner at Caffe Luna. Crossing placed Second in the cash awards—a surprise and an honor! Thank you to the Visual Art Exchange and everyone involved in putting together this show!
If you didn’t have a chance to attend the reception last night, remember Scope will be on display from June 5-25, 2009. There are a lot of really wonderful pieces in this show to see!
Some happy snaps from last night:
Pati Crowe Schetzina, Artist Grace Li Wang and me
Click the link for more photos and the full list of Award winners!
Natalie Persons, Pat OBrien and me
My fellow ECU School of Art survivors Stacy King Evans, Lee Nisbet, Me, Erin Becker Stesch, and (honorary ECU SoA survivor) Sean Stesch
VAE Director Sarah Powers hands out Awards
After the show, at Caffe Luna with all of my peeps
More of my peeps
The Scope Awards were selected by David Steel, NC Museum of Art Curator of European Collection and were as follows:
1st Place: Michael Grohs, Shelter
2nd Place: Sean W. Byrne, Crossing
3rd Place: Ann Hair, Almost Spring
Merit Awards: Suzanne Thomas, Blue Ridge Parkway – Fall; Jay Yager, Docks, Mooresville, NC; Erin Douglas, Into the Park
Honorable Mention: Natasha Johnson, Umstead Bridge II; Jennifer Miller, Waterworld; Alison McCauley, Stone Stairway; Donald Deuel, Eastman Creek Late in the Day
VAE Award: Rachel Campbell, No. 1 in the Luminist Series
Congratulations, Brother! I'm so happy for you!
Awesome – way to go !!!
Congrats – Can't wait to see more of your wonderful work at your upcoming solo show this December !
Sean, I'm sorry I missed you. I was there before the awards were presented. CONGRATULATIONS on the award! Totally well deserved. This painting is even better in person.
Awesome show. Well deserved award. Can't wait for your work to be in the Exchange Gallery at VAE in December.