Artpark winners
This year’s Lewiston Art Festival Best In Show Award went to Jon Mowell of Orchard Park for one of his kaleidoscopes.
Winners of the Modern Art Awards, sponsored by Modern Corp., received a share of $7,000 in prize money. The Chalk Walk winners received their own prizes. Here is the list of this year’s winners.
Modern Art
Best in Show
• Jon Mowell for Kaleidoscope (Blue)
Best Booth
• Astou Diorum
Painting
• 1st Place — Fritz Raiser for 50th Bouquet
• 2nd Place — Maria Laurendi for Through the Glass and Beyond
• 3rd Place — John Haldoupis for Sunset Glen
Graphic Arts/Photography
• 1st Place — Laurissa Widrick for Whale Shark
• 2nd Place — Ann Peterson for Clarity
• 3rd Place — Gene Pembroke for Stairway to the Sea, Ireland
Mixed Media
• 1st Place — Mia Sohn for Cosmic Dancer
• 2nd Place — Rich Homer for Acrylic Honeycomb Pen
• 3rd Place — Sandra Kicman for Cherry Eco Print
Artistic Crafts I: Jewelry
• 1st Place — Lisa Doherty for Conncentrie Harmony
• 2nd Place — Bonnie Hidden for Azurite Vine
• 3rd Place — Robin Miller for Owen with Leaf
Artistic Crafts II: Ceramic, Glass, Metal
• 1st Place — Jon Mowell for Kaleidoscope (Blue)
• 2nd Place — Elyse Wall for Weathered by Wind and Water
• 3rd Place — William Shearrow for Dancing Maples
Artistic Crafts III: Wood, Leather, Fiber
• 1st Place — Barbara Thomas for Honoring our Aunties
• 2nd Place — Lesley Swanson for Spalted Oak Log Box
• 3rd Place — Maura Hartwig for Rainbow Trout
Chalk Walk
Emerging Artists
• 1st Place — Becket Lemieux
• 2nd Place — Lucy Raimondi, Frankie Carroll and Claire Carroll
High School Artists
• 1st Place — Grand Island: Hannah Rastello, Austin Forsey, and Gianna Griggs
• 2nd Place — Elliana Winstanley, Ayva Teal
• 3rd Place — Madison Fisher, Leah Portwood, Emma Fischer
Individual Artist
• 1st Place — Erika Lakita Thurkins
• 2nd Place — Julie Klein
• 3rd Place — April Radder