Art Show Winners

Posted Nov 9, 2011

2011 Award Winners

Of more than 225 artists selected for the juried art show, Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival judges selected the following 26 artists for $25,000 in award money:

Best of Show ($3,000):

• Sid Kamerman, Sculpture, Pensacola

Awards of Distinction ($1,400 each):

• Tim Peters, Ceramics
• Don McWhorter, Ceramics
• Susan Gott, Glass
• Jack & Marian Forney, Jewelry
• Scott Hartley, Watercolor

Awards of Excellence ($1,200 each):

• Katrin Wolf, Jewelry
• Michael Bond, Printmaking
• Russell Grace, Photography
• Royal Miree, Sculpture
• Chris Hartsfield, Watercolor

Awards of Honor ($800 each):

• Dennis Paullus, Wood
• Shadow May, Ceramics
• Tony Krysinsky, Mixed Media
• Hetty and Norman Metzger, Fiber/Leather
• Barbara Laffal, Jewelry

Awards of Merit ($600 each):

• Brad Kelly, Photography
• Teresa Merriman, Mixed Media
• Nnamdi Okonkwo, Sculpture
• Tom and Frances Grow, Ceramics
• Guadalupe Robinson, Ceramics

Judges Awards ($400 each):

• Allan Teger
• M. Kemper, Watercolor
• Mark Rosenbaum, Glass
• Logan Louis, Jewelry
• John Moran, Photography

This year's jurors were Jeff Darby, a graphic artist and former Pensacola resident, and Thomas Eads, a photographer and former Tallahassee gallery director. Jurors reviewed more than 600 artists' work in June.
Judges were Linda Nolan Sienko, former Pensacola Museum of Art director now residing in Reno, Nev., and Jessica L. Smith, ceramicist and assistant professor of Art at the University of West Alabama, Livingston, Ala.

Italian Artist Andrea Spinelli to Demonstrate Fresco Painting

Posted Oct 27, 2011

Andrea Spinelli, Invited International Artist for the 2011 Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival, will give a hands-on demonstration of fresco painting as executed by Renaissance painters. This entails preparing of the tile, laying mortar, transferring of drawing onto fresh lime, and painting. Historical techniques will be discussed as well as method for detaching a fresco from wall/tile and transferring onto canvas. Andrea will show videos on his own formidable inventions: machines that paint. You will not want to miss this unique presentation from a Tuscan-born Florentine modern Renaissance Man.

Where: The Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts at Pensacola State College (Bldg. 15, corner of 9th and Airport)
When: 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 2nd

Visit the artist's web site at www.andreaspinelli.com. At the Festival, look for the Invited Artist booth next to the Seville Square Gazebo.

2011 Exhibiting Artists

Posted Oct 20, 2011

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2011 Poster Designed by Michael Duncan

Posted Oct 1, 2011

The winning art for the 2011 Great Gulfcoast Art festival poster was submitted by Michael Duncan. The art is a collage of 22 photos blended together to create one photograph. Titled "Under the Oaks", the images within the piece represent art, music, dance, food and the children's festival all under the magnificent oaks and the unique atmosphere of Seville Square.

A native on Pensacola, Michael is an accomplished commercial photographer and president of Duncan McCall Advertising. His commercial photography can be seen all over the southeast in the form of traditional advertising. And now his work will be seen at the 2011 GGAF.

Help Support Very Special Arts Day

Posted Sep 2, 2011

Each year at the Festival, the Children's Area is set aside on Friday for special needs students from Santa Rosa and Escambia County schools. The students are brought to the festival in specially equipped school buses. Due to budget cuts, Escambia County does not have the funds for this effort.

The cost of the buses is between $2,500 and $2,700. We are reaching out to the community to raise the funds to allow these students to experience the Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival on their day.  We're asking for $100 donations for this endeavor.

Checks may be made out to
Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival
P.O. Box 10744
Pensacola, FL 32524

Make note of VSA in the check memo area and also indicate how you would like your name to be mentioned in the program. 

Pierre Gable's Pensacola Photos

Posted Dec 15, 2010

View photography created by 2010 GGAF International Invited Artist Pierre Gable while he was in town.

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GGAF Honors Dix Darby

Posted Oct 26, 2010

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