2005 Individual Artist Award Winners

Exhibition on View: November 11 - January 13, 2006
Opening Reception: Friday, December 2, 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Poetry Reading and Reception: Wednesday, January 11, 5:30 - 7:30 PM

The Arts Fund is currently showing work by winners of the 2005 Individual Artist Awards and honorable mention recipients in a group show of oil paintings, pastels, and woodwork. Winners will be recognized at an artists' reception on Friday, December 2, from 5:30 - 7:30, at The Arts Fund's gallery. Featured artists include Works in Oil prizewinner Adam de Boer and honorable mention recipients Judy Nienow and Bonnie Beedles. Ann Sanders, winner of the Works in Pastel prize, is joined by honorable mentions Patricia Hedrick and Pamela Zwehl-Burke. Works in Wood includes Bud Tullis, IAA winner, with Ken Korten and Steve Willson, honorable mentions. Carol DeCanio and Marjorie Hawksworth, joint-winners of the IAA for Poetry, and honorable mention Zachary Chotzen-Freund will share their work with the public at a closing reception and poetry reading to be held on Wednesday, January 11, from 5:30 - 7:30.

Since 1988 The Arts Fund's Individual Artist Award program has awarded over $125,000 to more than 100 professional artists in the visual arts, the performing arts, and literature as part of the organization's commitment to nurture the arts in Santa Barbara County. The 2005 Individual Artist Award prizes have been generously sponsored by the Bloomingdale Family (oil painting), Christine and Robert Emmons (poetry), Leatrice and Eli Luria (pastel co-sponsor), Patty and Gene Sinser (pastel co-sponsor), and Northern Trust (wood). In addition to a cash prize, IAA winners in the visual arts will present a solo-exhibition in the forthcoming year.