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Our juror Carole Barnes of
Boulder
,
Colorado
chose 75 paintings out of
279 entries from 130 artists. Artists
from 27 states were represented in
the show including thirty from
Montana
(40%).
Carole Barnes selected the show award winners including the top
Gold and Medallion Award and
Vicky Campbell chose the
President’s Award. Merit and
merchandise prizes totaled over
$5000 and included a
Nancy
Beelman Award, a memorial to our
past president courtesy of her
husband Dale Beelman. We are
grateful to Dale and to all the
merchants who contributed prizes
and hope that our members will
show appreciation by patronizing
them in return.
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I want to especially thank Bob
Lindborg who worked hard to put
together a beautiful prospectus
followed by a catalog for
Watermedia 2003; he also made
beautiful mat board award plaques
and name labels for the paintings.
Thanks also to the folks at BACC,
especially Marnie Forbis who
unpacked, hung, and re-packed the
paintings as well as put on a
wonderful reception for MTWS. It
was a big, big job and they did it
very well.
The Carole Barnes Workshop was
attended by 24 artists, most of
whom thoroughly enjoyed
themselves. Experimenting with
acrylics took many beyond their
normal realm of creativity with
stunning results. It was an
adventure.
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I often entered the hall
to find 24 people so wrapped up
in their work that there wasn’t a
whisper to be heard. Carole called
that intensity, “being in your
creative bubble. ” The awards
banquet was also a great time
together with forty people
attending. Everyone present
contributed as either buyer or donor
to the silent art auction. This money
goes toward the watermedia prizes
that are awarded each year by the
society. I was pleased with the good
reception of the publicity postcards
MTWS had printed for this show.
Some artists requested batches
ranging from 10 to 100. In fact, I
had to ration them. For next year
we will print them using a painting
from the current rather that a past
show.
---Jean Triol---
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