Ohio Arts Council Announces 2013 Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition Winners
by Elizabeth Weinstein
The Ohio Arts Council presented 10 - $300 awards to professional artists in crafts, visual arts and photography; two - $250 amateur awards; and one Purchase Award during the opening of the annual Fine Arts Exhibition at the Ohio State Fair on July 24. The Fine Arts Exhibition presents works by amateur and professional Ohio artists in the Cox Fine Arts Center on the grounds of the Ohio Expo Center.
Winners of the $300 awards in the Professional Artist category for 2013 are:
Lawrence Baker, Cleveland Heights, for his graphite work 258 Continium II
Ken Coon, Fairport Harbor, for his egg tempera painting Grand River Tackle
Danielle Rante, Columbus, for her mixed media work Chasing Ice
Paul Emory, Zanesville, for his mixed media sculpture Van Gogh's Project
Sara Fleenor, Eaton, for her oil painting Sugar Flour
Leah Frankel, Columbus, for her found object assemblage Gray Scale
John Kortlander, Westerville, for his acrylic painting Rain on Snow
Andrea Myers, Columbus, for her fiber piece Tangled Web
Francis Schanberger, Dayton, for his anthotype photograph Red Tulip (Acidic) Peignoir #1
Timothy Smith, Columbus, for his photograph Close Encounter on I-70
Winners of the $250 awards in the Amateur Artist category for 2013 are:
Kelsey Scharf, Clyde, for her watercolor and colored pencil piece Untitled-Barbershop 2
Phoebe Snyder, Columbus, for her photo assemblage Skeletal Goddess
Lynda McClanahan of Columbus received the Purchase Award for her oil enamel on board piece Lovers in Cornfield.
The 2013 People's Choice Award will be announced at the end of the fair. The People's Choice Award debuted at the Ohio State Fair in 2001 and includes a $500 cash award from the Ohio Arts Council.
The exhibition was juried by Susan Rose Channing, an independent curator and consultant from Cleveland; and Andrew Scott, a professor of Sculpture at the Savannah College of Art and Design, in Savannah, Georgia. The jurors assessed nuances of scale, surface, composition and technique in a variety of mediums, from historic to contemporary and studio to decorative techniques. They also looked for work from emerging artists living in Ohio.
The annual exhibition provides viewers with an opportunity to celebrate Ohio's wealth of exceptional artists. It demonstrates each artist's sense of originality, ability to convey subject matter and technical mastery of the chosen media. Selected pieces reflect the diversity and high quality of contemporary art in Ohio.
About the Ohio Arts Council:
The Ohio Arts Council is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally and economically.
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