Yosemite Renaissance 33 (2018)
Rachel Ivanyi, Permanence? The California Spotted Owl, Watercolor - First Place and People’s Choice Award Winner
In 2018, 65 works by 58 artists were chosen from 820 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.
Award Winners Yosemite Renaissance 33
Best of Show - $1000 award
Jackie Clark – Big Sister – Oil Painting
First Place – three $500 awards
Carolyn Hartling – Mono Lake Tufa – Alcohol Inks on Yupo Paper
Rachel Ivanyi – Permanence? the California Spotted Owl - Watercolor
Monique Wales – Autumn Aspens, Inyo – Reductive Relief Print
Second Place – three $300 awards
Elizabeth Ashcroft – The Sublime Bewilderness of Yosemite – Mixed Media / Altered Books
Mary Ann Shao – Lake Tahoe, Rocky Shore – Soft Pastel
John Kifer – Birdfood – Acrylic on Board
Honorable Mention - five $100 awards
Charlotte Gibb – When the Forest Stirs - Photograph
Tricia Goldberg – Vernal Falls – Tapestry
Kerik Koukis – Sun, Clouds, and Burnt Trees – Palladium over Pigment Print
Jim Murray – Sentinal West, Study, Acrylic Painting
Jody Sears-Barbuta – Mended 1 and 2 – Wood Sculpture
Weiss Vocelka Award - $1000 ( two $500 awards )
Donors – Derrick Vocelka and daughter Sarah Vocelka Hendrickson
In honor of mother and daughter B. Weiss and Mary Weiss-Vocelka
Tim McMeans – The Energy and Memory of Place – Acrylic, Ink, and Smoke-Stained Paper
Melody Money – Starlight on the Peak – Fiber Art
People’s Choice Award - $100
Rachel Ivanyi – Permanence? The California Spotted Owl - Watercolor
Charlotte Gibb - When the Forest Stirs, Photograph
Our Judges - Yosemite Renaissance 33
Faith Rumm - Artist and Gallery Owner, Mariposa California
Lisa McDermott - Director, Carnegie Arts Center, Visalia
John Kifer - Birdfood, Acrylic
Jeremy Sarchet - Outpouring Projectiles, Photography
Karen Winters - Yosemite Awakening, Oil