Art League exhibition award winners announced
05/17/2021 ASHLAND, Ohio -- The Coburn Gallery at Ashland University announced award winners in its regional juried exhibition featuring 22 members of the Ashland Community Art League. The juror for the exhibition was professor and fine artist Priscilla Roggenkamp from Alliance.
Announced at Friday’s opening reception were $450 in awards, including Best in Show for Peggy Stover’s watercolor painting titled Yellow Blue; first place for Marty Bossler Lee’s charcoal drawing Nightfall; second place for Barbara Morejon’s felted wool sculpture Vessels Revealed; and Juror Honorable Mentions for Betz Johnson Richards’s colored pencil drawing Canary Girl and Heidi Weller’s oil on paper Self Portrait Pandemic. All artworks and awards were selected by the juror.
The exhibition includes local artists Barbara Nell Morejon, Bea North, Christine Krantz, Betty Perry, Betz Johnson Richards, Scott Parillo, Cynthia C. Petry, Jennifer Geraci, Dana Sherburne, Debra Akers, Elizabeth Klingler, Martha Buckner, Irene Maginniss, Janet Wells, Jerome A. Klobutcher, Marty Bossler Lee, Heidi Weller, MP Marion, Nancy Dupre, Peggy Stover, Irv Oslin and Susan Shafer. The exhibition, which showcases artistic talent in the Ashland community runs through July 23.
The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and noon to 4 p.m. weekends and is free and open to the public. COVID-19 safety protocols include a maximum of 15 visitors that may visit the gallery at one time, groups no larger than five, and face masks are required.
For more information, call 419-289-5652 or visit the gallery on Facebook.
Ashland University is a mid-sized, private university conveniently located a short distance from Akron, Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio. Ashland University (www.ashland.edu) offers each of its student constituencies The Ashland Promise, including “teaching students how to think, not what to think”. Committed to affordability, the University now offers incoming residential freshman the Tuition Relief Scholarship, as well as a variety of new forms of financial assistance for both new and continuing students. ###