Fine Arts Best of Show

Fine Arts Best of Show

Fine Art Department Awards

Fine Arts Best of Show: Gerald Thompson “Stanford” Oil Painting

Fine Art Department Awards

Fine Arts Best of Class – Acrylic: David Nakahara

“Edge of Heaven”

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Fine Arts Best of Class – Aqua Media: Barbara Stanton

“You Have My Attention”

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Fine Arts Best of Class – Prints: Karen Barry

“Our Neighborhood”

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Fine Arts Best of Class – Pastels: John DeVilliers

“PRETTY NOSE”

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Fine Arts Best of Class –Mixed Media: Joshua English

“strike type:2.a”

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Fine Arts Best of Class – Drawing: Donald Mangan

“Eulogy in the Church of Steam”

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Fine Arts Best of Class – Computer Generated Art: Barbara Stanton

“Lisa’s Back”

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Sculpture Best of Show – Laura Comstock “Vase” Clay Sculpture

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Sculpture Best of Class – Mixed Media: Clint Imboden

“self-portrait”

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Sculpture Best of Class – Other: Emelie Rogers

“Hot Summer”

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Photography Best of Show – Dennis Rashe “Floating on Fog” Monochrome Photograph

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Photography Best of Class – Color Photographs of Natural Landscape: Betsy Kingsbury “Night Light on El Capitan”

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Photography Best of Class – Portraiture: Kevin Thrash

“Dia de Los Muertos Bride”

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Photography Best of Class – Color Photographs of any Subject other than Natural Landscape: Jerry Hom “Sunrise at Shinn Pond”

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Photography Best of Class – Alternative Process/Mixed Media:

Anita Rama “Swan Chase”

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Poetry Best of Show – Art S. Tenbrink “My Wet Eyes Lift To See”

Plump pomegranates bend branches beckoning to begonia blooms below.

Backyard breakfast al fresco, I settle here with the Times.

Sun beams on today’s headlines: Bird Numbers Dwindle. Three billion lost in last 50 years. North America alone- 1/3 gone.

Black silhouettes of lost birds fly off the page: Aerial insectivores -32%

Land birds -27% Water birds -32% Shorebirds -37%

Only ducks and geese increase.

Grieving Nature’s loss I hear a furious flutter nearly in reach. My wet eyes lift to see

the crimson throat and iridescent breast of an Anna's hummingbird dart among purple bougainvillea.

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Poetry Best of Class: Lauren de Vore “Three Stone Steps”

Three stone steps are all that’s left

Of the house that once stood

In the shadow of the massive oak.

Then a portal from haven

To wild wood, three lone steps

Now lead nowhere but up to down.

Lichen-spotted, moss-mortared

Into the grassy bank, they give no clue

To the house builder, the stone setter,

No hint what felled the house

And erased all sign of habitation

Beyond their own mute presence.

But the oak, the ancient oak knows,

And with each breeze it whispers

The tale the stones cannot tell.

Leaves rustle. Flying things flit

Through dappled light. I listen. I hear.

Ah, if only I spoke the language of trees.