{"id":136,"date":"2009-06-20T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=136"},"modified":"2009-06-19T16:27:29","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T22:27:29","slug":"winners-of-2009-lakefront-festival-of-arts-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2009\/06\/winners-of-2009-lakefront-festival-of-arts-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of 2009 Lakefront Festival of Arts Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee, WI, June 20\u2014More than170 artists vied for top spots at the 47th annual Lakefront Festival of Arts<\/a> (LFOA), one of the premier juried art festivals in the country. Winners were announced at this morning’s annual Saturday awards breakfast.<\/p>\n

This year’s winners are<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Marvin Blackmore, Ceramics, Dolores CO
\nChia Haruta, Printmaking, Hanover MI
\nSusan Hill, Fiber – Non-Wearable, Kansas City MO
\nCarol Menninga, Mixed Media 2D, Roscoe IL
\nSue Mersman, Wood, Wetmore KS
\nDona Look and Ken Loeber, Jewelry, Algoma WI
\nPatricia Palson, Fiber-Wearable, Contoocook NH
\nBruce Peeso, Painting, Monson MA
\nJames Petran, Painting, Iowa City IA
\nR. Michael Wommack, Drawing\/Pastel, Langhorne PA
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\nEach winning artist will each receive a cash prize of $1,000, a commemorative art piece designed by the LFOA Design Award-winning artist, and an invitation to return to the festival for the next three years.<\/p>\n

This year, the commemorative art piece given to the winning artists is designed by Scott Roach, a sculpture artist from Salt Lake City. Roach works primarily with wall-hanging sculpture, incorporating carved and textured wood with patinated metal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Honorable Mentions<\/strong>:
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\nMatthew Adelman, Painting, Oberlin OH
\nJack Brumbaugh, Drawing\/Pastel, Tracys Landing MD
\nChris Coffey, Photography, Akron OH
\nMichael Cole, Photography, Hannibal MO
\nLeon Fontier, Metal, Penn Yan NY
\nLarry Fox, Sculpture, Omena MI
\nMatthew Hatala, Wood, Danielsville GA
\nClare Malloy, Painting, Chicago IL
\nMichael Santini, Painting, Mequon WI
\nDiana Stetson, Printmaking, Albuquerque NM
\nTaman VanScoy, Painting, Long Beach CA
\nKreg Yingst, Printmaking, Pensacola FL<\/p>\n

Those artists recognized with an Honorable Mention are guaranteed an invitation to return to the festival in 2010.<\/p>\n

JURORS
\n<\/strong>The jurors this year are John Garrett, sculptor and fiber artist from Albuquerque, New Mexico; Katie Gingrass, owner of the Katie Gingrass contemporary art and fine craft gallery; and Dean Sobel, director of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver and the Milwaukee Art Museum’s former chief curator and curator of contemporary art.<\/p>\n

CO-CHAIRS AND SPONSORS
\n<\/strong>This year’s co-chairs are Ryan Gray, senior investment consultant at Robert W. Baird, and Laura Lukas, director of quality assurance at Rockwell Automation. The festival is produced by Friends of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum’s largest support group.<\/p>\n

The 47th Lakefront Festival of Arts is presented by Quad\/Graphics and Milwaukee Magazine<\/em> and is sponsored by Miller Lite, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em>, State Farm Insurance, Northwestern Mutual Foundation and Concordia University.
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\nFESTIVAL HOURS
\n<\/strong>Saturday, June 20: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010 a.m.-7 p.m.
\nSunday, June 21: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010 a.m.-5p.m.
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\nTICKETS
\n<\/strong>General public: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$10 at the gate
\nKids 16 and under: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Free with a paid adult
\nMAM members: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$7 with valid membership card<\/p>\n

PARKING AND FESTIVAL ACCESS
\n<\/strong>Official parking is available for $7 per car on Lagoon Drive. To park here, follow the signs traveling north on Lincoln Memorial Drive and turn right onto Lagoon. A complimentary shuttle will provide continual transportation to and from the parking area as well as the south Festival entrance. Attendees can park their bikes free in the Festival’s bike corral located inside the south Festival entrance.
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\nParking is also available for a fee at O’Donnell Park (enter from Lincoln Memorial Drive). Disabled visitors and their companions may enter the festival through a wheelchair-accessible entrance of the west side of Lincoln Memorial Drive (located near the entrance to O’Donnell Park).
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\nABOUT THE MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM
\n<\/strong>The Milwaukee Art Museum’s far-reaching holdings include more than 20,000 works spanning antiquity to the present day. With a history dating back to 1888, the Museum houses a Collection with strengths in 19th- and 20th-century American and European art, contemporary art, American decorative arts, and folk and self-taught art. The Museum includes the Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion, named by Time magazine “Best Design of 2001.” For information on the Milwaukee Art Museum, please visit www.mam.org <http:\/\/www.mam.org\/><\/a> .
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\nABOUT THE LAKEFRONT FESTIVAL OF ARTS
\n<\/strong>What originally started more than 50 years ago as an event at a private residence where art was hung on clotheslines has grown to Milwaukee’s Lakefront Festival of Arts, an event that has dazzled art enthusiasts and artists from around the country. LFOA attracts more than 20,000 art enthusiasts and festival-goers alike each year during its three-day run thanks to its winning combination of art, entertainment and great food.
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