The annual Members’ Exhibition, currently on display at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD, features the artwork of 228 Museum members, in mediums including drawing, painting (oil, acrylic, watercolor), pastel, graphics, photography, mixed media, video art, jewelry, sculpture and other applications. This year, the Annual Members’ Exhibition was judged by Lucinda Edinberg, Curator and Art Educator at St. John’s College, Annapolis.
Several awards were given, including the following: The 39th Annual Lee Lawrie Award for best in any medium – John Ericson for Thunder and Lightning; The 19th Annual Peggy and T. Denton Miller, Jr., Award for excellence in contemporary art in any medium – Ken Schiano for Tu-tton; The 2nd Annual Ebby Malmgren Artist’s Book Award – Elizabeth McKee for A Birthday; Best Artwork in the Print Medium (excluding photography) – Sahm Doherty-Sefton for This Forest; M. Susan Stewart Award for best collage – Laura L. Kapolchok for Angel of Fortitude; The 37th Annual Samuel Sands Award for work in any medium depicting sporting activities – Donna M. Finley for Lazy Afternoon on San Domingo Creek; The 27th Annual A. Brittain Banghart Award for drawing, painting, etching or sculpture depicting the human figure – Joanne Magruder for Benched; The 29th Annual Sam Hemming Award for watercolor – Armando Ortiz for Evening Shadows; 6th Annual Learned Peabody Porter Award for excellence in drawing – Josephine Beebe for Brave Young Dancer; 6th Annual Jane Shannahan Offutt Memorial Award for excellence in painting – David G. Plumb for Two Pistachios; 4th Annual St. Michaels Art League and Plein Air Painters of the Eastern Shore Award for Best Landscape Painting in Oil, Acrylic or Watercolor – Fred Peterson for Assateague: Toward the West; 8th Annual Clay Guild of the Eastern Shore Award – Hilary Bruns for Homage à Van Gogh; The Tidewater Camera Club Award for Excellence in Photography – Graham Slaughter for Storm Front; Ben Franklin Crafts Awards – Carol Chandler for First Pitcher, Carol Meers for Death & Resurrection, and Cynthia Pyron for Mr. Pistol and Son Pete; and Honorable Mention Awards – Douglas Fahrman for 2014 Journal (Selections), Virginia Hladki for Virginia’s Last, Joan Machinchick for Guest Lecture (text by Ebby Malmgren), Karen Gaillard O’Dowd for Layered, Celia Pearson for Force of Nature, and Katherine Allen for Brazilian Garden.
The Exhibition runs through September 7, 2014. The Academy Art Museum exhibitions are sponsored by the Talbot County Arts Council and the Maryland State Arts Council. For further information about the Museum’s exhibitions and programs, visit academyartmuseum.org or call 410-822-2787.
Pictured are some of the winners of the Judge’s awards in the 2014 Academy Art Museum’s Annual Members’ Exhibition, on display through September 7, 2014. Pictured back row, left to right are award winners are Laura L. Kapolchok, M. Susan Stewart Award for best collage; Douglas Fahrman, Honorable Mention Award; and Armando Ortiz, The 29th Annual Sam Hemming Award for watercolor. Pictured fourth row, left to right, are Sahm Doherty-Sefton, Best Artwork in the Print Medium (excluding photography) and David G. Plumb, 6th Annual Jane Shannahan Offutt Memorial Award for excellence in painting. Pictured third row, left to right are Carol Chandler, Ben Franklin Crafts Awards; Erik Neil, Director of the Academy Art Museum; and Ken Schiano, The 19th Annual Peggy and T. Denton Miller, Jr., Award for excellence in contemporary art in any medium. Pictured second row, left to right are Donna M. Finley, The 37th Annual Samuel Sands Award for work in any medium depicting sporting activities; John Ericson, The 39th Annual Lee Lawrie Award for best in any medium; and Anke Van Wagenberg, Curator, Academy Art Museum. Pictured front row, left to right are Cynthia Pyron, Ben Franklin Crafts Award; Hilary Bruns, 8th Annual Clay Guild of the Eastern Shore Award; Joan Machinchick, Honorable Mention Award; Katherine Allen, Honorable Mention Award; and Judge Lucinda Edinberg, Curator and Art Educator at St. John’s College, Annapolis.
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