The Bourbon County Arts Council congratulates the winners of its 32^nd Annual Fine Arts Exhibit, held at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center.

Local corporate sponsors contribute award monies for the First-Place prize winners in each category.  The Arts Council provides prizes for the Second-Place awards, the Peoples’ Choice award, and also Best in Show,  in 2-D and 3-D categories, in memory of E.C. Gordon, who provided an Endowment to the organization in 2011.

Award winners for each category, and its sponsor, are as follows:

CERAMICS

1st (Ward Kraft) – Al Letner – “Lidded Jar”

2^nd – Daria Claiborne – “Metamorphosis”

DRAWING AND GRAPHIC

1^st (Landmark Bank) – Whitney Powell – “Dirty Nails & Fairy Tales”

2^nd – Ripp Harrison – “Winter Bug”

FIBER ART/TEXTILE

1^ST (State Farm Insurance) – Nancy Kreibach – “Let Your Light Shine”

2^nd – Millie Karleskint – “Shabby Chic”

GLASS

1^st (Edward Jones/ Armstrong) – Carleen Shatto – “Thin Vessels”

2^nd – Cynthia Allen – “Tribute”

JEWELRY

1^st (Citizens Bank) – Nicole Meyer Foresman – “Organic Brooch & Stand”

2^nd – None

 

 

MIXED MEDIA

1^st (Lyons Realty) – Eric Doucette – “Grasshopper”

2^nd – Anita Wilson – “On Fire”

PAINTING

1^st (Union State Bank) – Henry Kreibach – “Gold Rush”

2^nd – Tom Altenburg – “Barnyard Royalty”

PASTEL

1^st (Mid-Continental Restoration) – Rick Bushnell – “Autumn Statis”

2^nd – Emerson Grisier – “An Autumn Drive”

PHOTOGRAPHY

1^st (The Artificers) – Linda Teeter – “Reflections – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”

2^nd – Maggie Brenner – “Building Blocks”

PRINTMAKING

1st (Osage Timber) – Rick Bushnell – “Cottonwood Autumn”

2^nd – Rylee Coulter – “Eyeball Kid”

SCULPTURE

1^st (H & H Realty) – Mayumi M Kiefer – “Shoulder to Shoulder”

2^nd – Mark Denton – “Anagama Hare”

THEME

1^st (City State Bank) – Tom Altenburg – “Traveling a Dusty Road”

2^nd – Eric Doucette – “A Day at the Office”

WATERCOLOR

1^st (Buerge Studio) – Henry Kreibach – “Flower Tower”

2^nd – Kaitlynn Sampson – “Peaceful View”

BEST OF SHOW 2D – Henry Kreibach – “Gold Rush”

BEST OF SHOW 3D – Al Letner – “Lidded Jar”

PEOPLES’S CHOICE – Addison Smith – “Orchid