Yosemite Renaissance 34 (2019)
Yosemite Renaissance 34 opened at the Yosemite Museum Gallery on Feb. 22nd 2019. From there the show traveled to Kings Art Center in Hanford, Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock, and Gallery 5 in Oakhurst.
62 works by 60 artists were chosen from 640 entries. The exhibit included paintings, prints, textiles, mixed media, photographs and 3-dimensional works by artists from across the country, selected to inspire a new generation of people to understand, preserve and protect our wild lands and natural places.
The exhibit was viewed by over 18,000 visitors at the Yosemite Museum, and thousands more at our Traveling Exhibit venues. We offer a sincere “Thank You!” to our partners, and the many supporters, volunteers and staff that made the exhibit possible.
YOSEMITE RENAISSANCE 34 SPECIAL THANKS
Yosemite Museum Staff
Interim Chief Curator - Greg Cox
Registrar - Sara Hay
Interp - Ben Cunningham Summerfield
Interns - Brittany Puhrmann, Heather Vandergrinton
Yosemite Museum Gallery Volunteers
Tom Byde
YOSEMITE RENAISSANCE 34 JUDGES
Penny Otwell, Joan Sharma
YOSEMITE RENAISSANCE 34 AWARD WINNERS
Best of Show - $1000 award
Wendy Tan – “Affection”
First Place – three $500 awards
1) Lyrinda Snyderman – “Inexorable Descent”
2) Trowzers Akimbo – “The Otters Are Back”
3) Bryant Austin – “I’m Here”
Second Place – three $300 awards
1) Kirk Keeler – “Ice Pattern on High Sierra Pond, Eastern Sierra”
2) Esther Eve Jacks-Grayson – “Together”
3) Deborah Pepin – “Fall Splendor Lundy Canyon Eastern Sierras”
Honorable Mention –five $100 awards
1) Monique Wales – “Grand Show, Sierra Gloaming”
2) Franka Gabler – “Fishing, Eastern Sierra”
3) Marek Matusz – “Moon and Clouds”
4) John Kifer – “Fire on the Merced”
5) Pamela Hicks – “The Awe of El Cap”
Weiss / Vocelka Award - (two $500 awards)
Donors- Derrick Vocelka and daughter Sarah Vocelka Hendrickson
In honor of B. Weiss and Mary Weiss-Vocelka
1) Denise Oyama Miller – “Bird’s Eye View”
2) David Hoffman – “Brown Creepers No. 2”
People’s Choice Award - $100 award
1) Marilyn Wear - “Heading Downstream”
Email us at info@yosemiterenaissance.org or call 559-683-5551 if you have questions.
