41st Annual Juried Show Announces 2014 Award Winners

SPARTANBURG, SC – Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg hosted the opening reception for its 41st Annual Juried Show on Sept. 6 in Spartanburg Art Museum to announce winners in Best in Show, 2-D Award of Excellence, and 3-D Award of Excellence. Juried by Scott Belville, nationally exhibited painter and University of Georgia professor of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the show featured the best of North and South Carolina artists. Winners of the various awards received a total of $4000 in cash prizes.

Sponsors of the exhibition include Phifer-Johnson Foundation, Bill and Wendy Mayrose, Carolina Alliance Bank, QS/1 Data Systems, Trustees of the Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg, Ted and Mary Smith, and Spartanburg Art Museum.

The awards are as follows:

Best in Show:
Chink in Maria’s Shield by Vivianne Carey

2-D Awards of Excellence:
Local Chicken by Jim Carson
Two-Faced Beauty by Sarouth Deam

2-D Honorable Mention
“Preying” Mantises by Susan Hopps
Out of Tara’s Garden by Jean Souther Jones
Edo Influence 4 by Christina Laurel
Stay Out by Scott Quinn
Time & Intent by Aimee Wise

3-D Awards of Excellence
Nepenthes by Lewis Brown
Crown by Hal Taylor

3-D Honorable Mention
Sky Rising by Tom Flowers
The Nest by Donna Minor
The Timekeeper by Lou Webster

2014 People’s Choice Award
Stay Out by Scott Quinn