Congratulations to the following artists whose artwork (as listed) has been juried in to this year’s Michigan Fine Arts Competition.

Juried by Laurie Ann Farrell

Laurie Ann Farrell is a globally recognized curator, art historian, and writer based in Dallas, TX. She has written extensively on contemporary art and culture, including exhibition catalogs, journal articles, and artist monographs. Her work has been profiled and featured in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, African Arts, Vogue, CNN, the Washington Post, the Detroit Free Press, ArtNews, Flash Art, and Artforum, among many others. As the former head of modern and contemporary art and curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts, she oversaw one of the USA’s most important postwar art and modern art collections, including the GM Center for African American Art. In December 2018, Farrell curated the Ruben & Isabel Toledo: Labor of Love exhibition, featuring new works made in response to the DIA collections and Diego Rivera Detroit Industry Murals and encyclopedic art collection.

 

D’Ann Adkins – Comforting Souls

Angelo Aquino – Skull and Poppies

 

Yeroham Ashagre – Ode to Solitude

$1,000 MFAC Award

 

Mariia Bashtova – “A midnight garden”

Jerry Basierbe – Lake Superior Rocks – Ontario, Canada

Vana Beginin – Young Buck

Rebecca Bissi – Hot Pink Orchids

Russell Bloomfield – From a Chair

Allyn Boley – Morning coffee in fragments of place of memory

Ted Bowersox – Blue Peacock Bowl

Camille Ann Brewer – Mommy Wata

Jules Briggs – Susannah

Jackie Brunsden – An end to the madness

Kristine Burns – Echoes of Elegance

Anthony Cairo – Dawn Over Pictured Rocks

Susan L. Carman Vian – Travel Nostalgia

Graham Cassano – Twentieth-Century Knowledge Factory

 

Kevin Clifford – Hope

$250 Corinne Maillard Robinson Award

 

Samantha Conrad – My Masterpiece

Cheryl Correll – Walking (Homage to Kara Walker)

Elizabeth Cox – Samurai Cop

Elizabeth Cox – Bending Toward Blue

Velinka Cucuz – Raspberry Bliss

 

Anthony Dedakis – Brave

$2,000 MFAC Award

 

Anthony Dedakis – Symphony of color

 

Hector Del Campo – Solitude of the Panda

$250 MFAC Award

 

Darcel Deneau – City of Rainbows

Cynthia DePage – Orchids

Brianna Deterling – Nested Fragment No. 5

Paul Erlandson – Robot Honeymoon

Lisa Farris – Yellow Midden

 

Lisa Farris – Blue Midden

$100 BLICK Art Materials Giftcard

 

Danielle Georgiou – Nightly Walk

Debbie Grifka – Stillness?

Cheryl Haithco – “Geranium Love”

Jeanette Hammerstein – Letting go

Jacqueline Hancock – The Hare & the Fae Catcher

Jacqueline Hancock – Goblin Moon

Kelly Hansen – A New Perspective

Susan Hartunian – Seduction Of The Journey

Cheryl Haugh – Ancestral Reflection (2)

Dorothy Jett-Carter – Chasin dem Haints

Christopher Jones – A Michigan Lake in Binary

Jean Judd – Art Deco #3

 

Sujin Jung – Arden

$100 BLICK Art Materials Giftcard

 

WanChuan Kesler – Mannequin’s Summer

Emily Kraft – Flowers

Margarita Kulys – Goodbye darkness my old friend

Lesley Kutinsky – Sunlit and Wind-blown

Debbie Lamson – At Sunset

Hiroko Lancour – Paper Sashiko #19

Candace Law – Buried Hopes

Rosemary Lee – Plane Geometry

Todd Lininger – Modern Longing

Jesse Link – Eagle

Meagan Lipke – Double Vision

Katie Lowran – “elephant rising”

Megan Lui – Safer in the Forest

 

Heather Macali – Black & White XO

$500 MFAC Award

 

Maria Marcotte – Cafe Origins

Betsy Marsh – Nocturne in New York

Armin Mersmann – Ethos Series 18

Ron Moffitt – Pontiac is looking up

John Mrozik – Circus Teapot-II

Gary Mulnix – Sasha

Cal Navin – “Zadie”

 

Craig Paul Nowak – Possibilities

$300 BLICK Art Materials Giftcard 

 

Susan O’Connor – “Henry”

Candace Pappas – Ladybird, Ladybird, Fly Away Home

Lisa Passalacqua – Alpaca Tribe

Brittany Reed – Hanging On

Lucia Ritacco – Laura Seated

Bruce Roberts – Coalecence #01

Ronald Diego Rodriguez – We Are the Vortex

Gwenn Rosseau – Form and Silence

Kimberly Santini – Goldfinch, Goldfish

 

Mark Schumack – No Cheese in China

$500 BBAC President’s Award

 

Ryan Send – Wisconsin’s Vanishing Flora

Glen Skinner – Grandma Saluga

Jennifer Sowders – October’s Melange

Claudia St Peter – Yellow Butterflies Above the Rubble

Jan Stannard – Honeymoon Road Trip

Virginia Wait – Mill Creek Berries

Larry Zdeb – WEDNESDAY