Seawall Art Show Artists 2009
Show Layout
Art Show Judge: Trudi Van Dyke
2008 Award Winners
ClayAllred, Hank FiberMatthews, Shoshana GlassByrne, John Iron WorkArkus, Anthony JewelryAllin, Stacey Mixed Media
Carter, Tazeko |
MosaicsAbbitt, Michelle PaintingArkus, Lisa |
PaperNasibyan, Igor Photography
Charette, Leo Sculpture
Doughty, Albert Turned SoapstoneFowler, Patricia Wood & Wood SculptureCunningham, Mark |
2009 Seawall Art Show Judge Trudi Van Dyke
Van Dyke is an independent curator and fine arts consultant who juries and curates nationally and internationally including recent work with the Russian Arts Project, the Artisans Center of Virginia, and the Embassy of Israel. She writes on the Arts for the Alexandria Times and Elan Magazine and is an adjunct faculty member in the Masters in Arts Management Program and George Mason University.
She was formerly director of the Torpedo Factory Arts Center (Alexandria, VA) and the Ellipse Art Center (Arlington, VA) and currently curates the Vulcan Gallery at the Workhouse Arts Center (Lorton, VA). In the 2008 season she curated exhibitions Women of Steel and Men of Fiber (Suffolk Museum, suffolk, VA), Contemporary Fiber (Marymount University) and Myths and Near Myths (Black Rock Center, Gaithersberg, MD).
She travels around the country as a festival judge including the 2009 Cherry Creek Festival (Denver, Colorado).
2008 Seawall Art Show Awards
Best in Show: Paul Stevens, Photography, $2000
2nd Place: Karen Shelton, Painting, $1500
3rd Place: Sherry Terao, Jewelry, $1000
4th Place: J. Howard Johnson, Clay, $700
5th Place: Igor Nastibyan, Paper, $500
Albert D. Morris Artisan Award: William Richardson, Wood, $500
6th Place: George Rhodes, Photography, $225
7th Place: Jeffrey Jobe, Jewelry, $200
Student Art Show Winners
1st place: Hunter Mayton, Kempsville Middle School, VA Beach 8th grade $150
2nd place: Candis Marie Dolinsky, Oscar Smith, Chesapeake, 11th grade $100
3rd place: Lauren Hayes, Churchland High, Portsmouth, 11th grade $75
4th place: Ashley Michelle Hill, Churchland High, Portsmouth, $50