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HAIR

Judge: Dr. Dori Griffin

Over years of working together with student designers, I’ve held many conversations about the personal and cultural associations tied to hair and to how hair is represented visually in the world. Our hair can be an important signal of our connections—to our race, culture, religion, gender, class, or social and personal identity. As such, it’s important to see ourselves and our communities represented in the visual culture that surrounds us. The visual messages we send—through our own choices about our hair, through the art we release into the world—deserve the kind of reception and reflection made possible by this show.

(1) Best in Show goes to Woman Life Freedom by Nazita Fazlkhah, who deploys hair as a powerful and iconic symbol of personal and shared liberation for Iranian women.
(2) The Award of Excellence goes to Leaving Home by Carly Shooster, a Jewish-American comics artist whose work tells a visual story about mothers, daughters, and the dynamic relationship between hiding and revealing oneself.
(3) Third Place goes to Taxidermy Strands by Zoe Ze Zhou, a multimedia artist who uses her own hair as material to explore human relationship to the world and familial relationships to one another.


The five merit awards go to artists who joyfully, expansively take up physical and visual space with their representations of what hair might mean in diverse contexts. Riotous curls, intricate braids, or magnified views of single strands and follicles—how we show our hair to the world can tie us to family, culture, faith, community, and place. As a viewer of this show, I find profound joy in this multivocality of expression.
 

BEST IN SHOW:
Woman Life Freedom – Nazita Fazlkhah

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
Leaving Home – Carly Shooster

THIRD PLACE AWARD
Taxidermy Strands – Zoe Ze Zhou

MERIT AWARDS
Blowout – Suzanne Stone
Labor of Love – Lâle Gerger
Metal Head – Kris Ritchie
Tangled Up in Blues – Kathy Faraone
Saudade: Hermento’s Dream – Kali Geiger

 

 

2024 SUMMER SHOWCASE

June 25 - July 20, 2024

Judge: Sarah Maloney

BEST IN SHOW:  

Precious Cargo in Summer - Verónica Villaseñor

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Great Egret Dream - Susan Jacobson

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Red Plant - Jeanine Tatlock

MERIT AWARDS:

Merged Histories / Centrifugal Attraction - Rick Yasko

Singing in the Moonlight - Linda Henderson

Release Your Inner Monster - Cheryl Russell

Micro World II - Sylvia McIntyre-Crook

Trinkets - Stephanie Perez

MEMBER POSTCARD EXHIBITION

May 28 - June 22, 2024

Judge: GFAA Members

BEST IN SHOW:  

Leaf Litter - Joyce Pearson

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Heron - Linda Zidonik

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Conversation Tea Cart - Linda Henderson

MERIT AWARDS:

Beach Scene - Jeanine Tatlock

Greetings from Wonderland - Laura Margaret

Sandhill Cranes Leaving Paynes Prairie - William Baruch

Des Eaux Calmes - Melanie Pate

Freefall - Bill Paine

 

 

 

GROWTH

November 28 - December 22, 2023

Judge: Rachel Silveri

Judge's Statement

BEST IN SHOW:  

The Flash of the Oriole - Candace McCaffery

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Experiments with Collage and Interference with Black and White “Noise” I - Maria Leite

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

It Takes a Team - Karen Koegel

MERIT AWARDS:

Resplendence of Tulips #8 - Christine Brundige

The Building Blocks of - Johnny Coleman

Cellon Oak in Winter - Bill Ragan

Growth can be Prickly - Erica Davis-Jackson

Last Tree - Patti Barker


 

CO-CREATION

August 23 - September 22, 2023

Judge: Carol McCusker

Judge's Statement

BEST IN SHOW:  

Breaking New Ground - Dixie Biggs & Delaine Miller

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Dye-Versa-Tree - Candace McCaffery & Chris Brundige

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Mensajes de la Ayahoasca - Dawn Schultz & Alejandro Vazquez

MERIT AWARDS:

Oh Joy! or Whimsical Rhapsody - June Beverly & Ann Hughes

Decorative Tree - Ronda Richley & Suzanne Weirick

When We Were Birds - Linda Zidonick & Linda Henderson 

Blah Blah - Karen Koegel & Tina Corbett

Kin - Skip Snow & Air Current & mushroom spore

SELF PORTRAIT

July 22 - August 19, 2023

Judge: Tom Hart

Judge's Statement

BEST IN SHOW:  

Self Portrait - Sylvia McIntyre-Crook

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Florida Self Portrait 2023 - Charlotte Newman

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Untitled (Quarantine Portrait) - Angela DeCarlis

MERIT AWARDS:

Nonbinary Looks Like Me and You and Everyone - Kali Geiger

Thirteen - Jay Winter Collins

Self Portrait - Alfred Phillips

Avoidance - Jessica Carter

Now - June Beverly

2023 SUMMER SHOWCASE

June 28 - July 22, 2023

Judge: Jendi Shaza

Judge's Statement

BEST IN SHOW:  

Automated Art - Jim Mazaris

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Be The Light - Lâle Gerger

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Dream Garden - June Beverly

MERIT AWARDS:

Eggplant Village - Amy Lindroth

Still Photo - Wendy Sullivan

Curiosities - April Burk Clark

Tall Tied Down Ginger Jar - Kate Murray

Pretty in Pink - Simone Spade

TRANSPARENCY

May 24 - June 24, 2023

Judge: Devin Harclerode

Judge's Statement

BEST IN SHOW:  

Body Shapes: Mind and Spirit - Keiaria Williams

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

I Left My Husk Behind to Nurture New Life - Kristin Powers

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Present - Annemarie Furlong

MERIT AWARDS:

If Only These Has Transparency - Frank Curtis

only myself when i'm with you - Charles Ely

I Have No Secrets - Caren Hackman

Lack of Transparency - Amy Lindroth

Memories - Michelle Nagri

2022 WINTER SHOWCASE

November 22 - December 22, 2022

Judge: Anthony Ackrill

BEST IN SHOW:  

Mexicana Waterlily IV - Candace McCaffery

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Colette's Memories - Paul Newman

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Big Bear - Adrienne Gonia

MERIT AWARDS:

Indirect Route - Michael Nuetzel

Pale Wrapped Jar - Kate Murray

1960 Suburban Magic - Chris Deacon

Eternal Love - Ann Kelly

House of Memories - Sally Larson

 

 

INDULGE

October 25 - November 19, 2022

Judge: Jen Yu

BEST IN SHOW:  

The Bacchus Buffet - Paul Newman

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Toulhouse Market Tomatoes - Sue Kelman

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Fresh Harvest - Ronda Richley

MERIT AWARDS:

Five Eggs - Joyce Pearson

Four Tines - Joyce Pearson

Ripe - Ronda Richley

The Happy Pear and the Never-Ending Journey - Harimandir Khalsa

Pelada - Pia Molina

 

 

THINGS UNSEEN

August 23 - October 22, 2022

Jurors: Dina Dean, Jesús Fuenmayor, Katy Lemle

BEST IN SHOW:  

Mental Health v2 - Anthony Faiola

Talking Without Speaking, Amendment 2 - Margaret Jo Feldman

Soothe - John Wolfer

MERIT AWARDS:

The Universal Language of Labor - Laura DeValencia

Trace - Webson Ji

 

 

THE BEAUTIFUL MIND

July 26 - August 20, 2022

Judge: Stacey Breheny

BEST IN SHOW:  

Lifeline - Wendy Sullivan

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Cataloging My Darkness - Kristin Powers

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Sinking - Kim Hurt

MERIT AWARDS:

Defaced - Kathy Faraone

Struggling Brain

& Recovering Brain - Shelby Blaes

Feeding - Sofia Gurruchaga

Self-Image Portrait - WIlliam Mueller

Being in a Perpetual Twisted Hell - Bobbi Matheson

 

 

2022 SUMMER SHOWCASE

June 23 - July 23, 2022

Judge: Dr. Queenchiku Ngozi

BEST IN SHOW:  

Big Tied-Down Ginger Jar - Kate Murray

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

WorldWaves - Lale Gerger

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Self-Portrait (Oppressive Florida Sun on Blue-Collar Life - Benjamin Ingle

MERIT AWARDS:

Seventy-Seven Cents - Charlotte Newman

Balance - Abigail Victoria Waldhaver

I Tell the Old Woman - Mary Bast

El Flamenco - Sue Kelman

Flotteur - Danielle Wirsansky

 

 

ABSENCE & PRESENCE: ABSTRACT BLACK & WHITE

May 24 - June 18, 2022

Judge: Elayne Dubin

BEST IN SHOW:  

Under the Trees I & II - Julie Johnson

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Sequestration - Skip Snow

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Secret Messages - Peter Senesac

MERIT AWARDS:

Ambiguline - Robert Ford Jr

Carve Out Your Shining Moon - Michelle Nagri

Forgotten, But Not Gone - Wendy Sullivan

Crossroads - Marie Leite

Water Dance - Beryl Bayer

THE FUTURE

April 26 - May 31, 2022

Judge: Eleanore Blair

BEST IN SHOW:  

We Are All Just A Little Bit Plastic Now - Skip Snow

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Libra - Suzanne Stone

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Transport Properties / Take N Toss - Wendy Sullivan

MERIT AWARDS:

It's About Women - Hazel Jopling

Scrapescape 1 - Stephanie Haas / Jeff Hillman

Fallen Fragments Rising - Paul Newman

The Aqua Aquatic Goddess - Linda Henderson

Let Them Have Their Mansions, We Have Our Cottage - Cesar Evans

MYTHOLOGIES

March 22 - April 23, 2022

Judge: Patrick Grigsby

BEST IN SHOW:  

Bird Myth - Linda Henderson

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Nightstand Guardian - Annie Thompson

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Guardian of the Forest on the Isle of Cumberland - Bob Senesac

MERIT AWARDS:

Sango - Maria Leite

The Hat of Hades - Alexis Henderson

The Myth of Political Kindness - Paul Newman

Dragon Skin Ensemble - Patti Barker

Pegasus - Laurie Edgehill

PROCESS

February 22 - March 19, 2022

Judge: Paula Anderson

BEST IN SHOW:  

Vacationing in Tatooine - Skip Snow

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

In the Garden - Simone Spade

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

She Swirled Around Me Then... - Michael Angelo Gagliardi

MERIT AWARDS:

Full Circle - Sylvia Montesinos

Kubrick's Enigma - Michael Levy

Sunlit Salt Marsh - Susan Jacobson

Space - Alexis Henderson

Moon Over Matryoshki - April Burk Clark

COMING HOME

January 28 - February 19, 2022

Judge: Valerie Aslakson-Jennings

BEST IN SHOW:  

Eliza Jane & Jerry Matt, 1936: The Family Tree - Linda Henderson

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Coming Home - Bob Senesac

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Big Snuggle - Annie Thompson

MERIT AWARDS:

Sheet Day - Alfred Phillips

Thoughts of Home - Mike Zietz

Little House in the Hills - April Clark

Lady Bird, Lady Bird - Kim Hurt

Rake - Suzanne Stone

WINTER SHOWCASE 2021

November 23 - December 22, 2021  

Judge: Normen Jensen

BEST IN SHOW:  

Color Changes & Many Leaves - Joyce Dewsbury

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Digital Depths - Stephanie Haas

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Tea - Michael Nuetzel

MERIT AWARDS:

Jewel Beetle (Bupestris sp.) - Candace McCaffery

Peaceful - Mary Reid

Abandoned Nursery - Michael Zietz

Amanda - Mary Ruth

True Love (A Human Conscious Experience on the Space-Time Continuum) - Kelly Meehan

MOTION

August 24 - September 18, 2021

Judge: Meghan Moe Beitiks 

BEST IN SHOW:  

Walking with Satellites: The Animated Series - Skip Snow

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Tiny Dancer in My Head - Michael Angelo Gagliardi

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Paul Tumbling - Alfred Phillips

MERIT AWARDS:

Feeding the Congregation - Johnny Coleman

Brown Pelican in the Air - John Harvey

Desert Magdalene - Paul Newman

Gingerbreadmanlessness - Sarah McIntosh

Bubbling - Kathy Faraone

TEXTURE

July 27 - August 21, 2021

Judge: Dan Stepp

BEST IN SHOW:  

Earthquake - Patti Barker

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

All Hair is Good Hair - Keana Poindexter

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Wave Casket - Kate Murray

MERIT AWARDS:

Unfinished Business - Davis McGlathery

Heart of the Woodland - Nancy Betty

Old Woman and the Truck Side - Michael Angelo Gagliardi

Contrasts - Kathy Faraone

Tree Roots-Canyonland National Park - Greg McDermott

SUMMER SHOWCASE 2021

June 22 - July 24, 2021  

Judge: Emma Jensen

BEST IN SHOW:  

The Contemplation You Get at the End of a Long Journey - Michael Angelo Gagliardi

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Objective Data, fig. 1 - Stephanie Birch

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Outcast - Oliver Keyhani

MERIT AWARDS:

Earth Angel - Linda Zidonik

Felicidad - Kathy Faraone

Canyon Streams - Sue Kelman

Death of a Giant - Linda Krause

Emerald Slingshot - Matt Core

DESIRE

April 27 - May 22, 2021  

Judge: Matthew Knight

BEST IN SHOW:  

Desire - Sarah McIntosh

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Wanderlust II (Florence) - Maria Leite

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Save the Fragile Ones - Stephanie Haas

MERIT AWARDS:

Blurred Lines of Desire #2 - Annie Morien

Then They Kissed - Michael Angelo Gagliardi

The Gold That Never Gets Old - Ali Graves

Not Your Trophy/Not Your Fetish - Keana Poindexter

Love Slugs - Sarah McIntosh

ART IN ISOLATION

February 23 - March 20, 2021  

Judge: Claire Orenduff-Bartos

BEST IN SHOW:  

The Death of Marat - Foad Seyed Mohammadi

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Zip It - Alfred Phillips

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

The Day the Music Died - Gwendolyn Chrzanowski

MERIT AWARDS:

Partitioned - Kim Hurt

Pollinator Series 1 - Nancy Betty

Dead River Valley - Sarah McIntosh

Rising Roses - Tom Hundersmarck

Organized Chaos - Karen Reed-Denson

 

THROUGH THE LENS

January 26 - February 20, 2021 

Judge: Carol McCusker

BEST IN SHOW:  

The Lines & The Fans - Kerry Wilson

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

You'll Fit Right In - Kim Hurt

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Egg and Forks - Joyce Pearson

MERIT AWARDS:

Sunset of the Mind - Giuliano De Portu

SpaceX Dragon Demo - Halea Jo Downing

Swamp Faces-Visions - Bill Paine

There's Always a Feather - Julia Sullivan

Azalea - Bob Senesac

WINTER SHOWCASE 2020

November 17, 2020 - January 2, 2021

Judge: Jesús Fuenmayor 

BEST IN SHOW:  

Short Pencil Knows the End is Near - Dallas Sigmon

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Slow Chaos - Halea Jo Downing

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Pecking Order on South Main Street - Mary Ruth

MERIT AWARDS:

Marsh Sunset - Harold Barrand

Two Squared - Leanne Pflaum

Offspring - Kathy Faraone

Cocktails at 5 - Sally Larson

The Green Man - Rebekah Merlino

INTANGIBLE

October 30 - December 30, 2020

Judge: Katie Baines

BEST IN SHOW:  

Flyover - Alfred Phillips

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Sea Spray - Jane Medved

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Giza - Leanne Pflaum

MERIT AWARDS:

We Will Find Our Way - Celia Burger

Summer of 91 - Angela Keidel

Big Pink - Kathy Faraone

Labyrinth - Foad Seyed Mohammadi

#5 - Michael Frommer

A SENSE OF PLACE

September 22 - November 22, 2020

Judge: Porchia Moore

BEST IN SHOW:  

The Universe - Anabel Evora

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Don’t Know Where We’re Going - Jacob Lehmann

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Dusk - Foad Seyed Mohammadi

MERIT AWARDS:

Back in Time - Ali Graves

Worldly - Jane Medved

Porto Neighborhood - Frederic Ross

River Rise - Dianne Brody

Remains - Hannah Fulton

THE HUMAN RACE

August 25 - October 25, 2020

Members Voting - People's Choice

BEST IN SHOW:  

Done Reach - Vicki Damon Johnson

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Working/Not Working - Alfred Phillips

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Watermelon Harvest - Craig Walters

MERIT AWARDS:

Brothers - Jane Medved

Squeezing Out Ideas - Alfred Phillips

El Ribereño (Amazon) - Stephanie Haas

Past Peaceful Protests - Karen Koegel

Nude Self Portrait - Judy Cain

CLOSE UP

July 28 - September 28, 2020

Judge: Erin Curry

BEST IN SHOW:  

ON-OFF - Foad Seyed Mohammadi

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Mathematical Axiom in Translucent State - Sylvia McIntyre-Crook

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Simocephalus Profile - Jenna Pochy

MERIT AWARDS:

Organism - Candace McCaffery

Close Up - Alfred Phillips

Watchworks - Tom McKercher

Trio - Brooke Williams

Bittersweet Distractions - Michael Mills

SUMMER SHOWCASE

June 23 - August 23, 2020

Judge: Hector Puig 

BEST IN SHOW:  

Space Explorer III - Sylvia McIntyre-Crook

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Shadow Point Beauties - Robin Lee Makowski

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

It Matters - Alfred Phillips

MERIT AWARDS:

Perceptual Breach - Michael Nuetzel
The Boundaries of Adaptation - Kristin Powers
Reflected Nature - Isabel Acosta
Fern Hammock Springs - Michelle Nagri

Scream - Michael Frommer

ATTENDING TO WONDER - Biennial National Juried Exhibition

May 26 - July 26, 2020

Jurors: Amory Abott, Lauren Hill, Logan Marconi

BEST IN SHOW:  

Rice Creek Town Homes 2 - Shannon Estlund

Cathedral - Michael Mills

Unfocused Territory 1 - Jayne Struble

MERIT AWARDS:

Prayer for Coherence - Kim Matthews

Sweet/Darkness - Georgiana Nehl

EARTH

May 2 - July 2, 2020

Judge: Richard Heipp

BEST IN SHOW:  

Mulberry Drift - Candace McCaffery

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Worldly Peacock - Frank Curtis

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Bright Farm Pond - Alfred Phillips

MERIT AWARDS:

Angels Observe the Little Blue Planet - Catherine Goldman
Manholes - Michael Frommer
Quiet Passage - Alfred Phillips

Love the Hell Out of the World - John Seitz
Sweetwater Wetlands Edge, Clouds, Studio Woods - Harold Barrand

THE GARDEN

April 2 - June 2, 2020 

Member Voting - People's Choice

BEST IN SHOW:  

Secrets of the Garden - Nancy K. Betty

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE:

Cold Weather Coming - Anda Chance

THIRD PLACE AWARD:

Connections - Candace McCaffery

MERIT AWARDS:

Flight Party - Debra Lindberg
Path to Somewhere - Peter Senesac
Into the Garden of Dreamers - Michelle Nagri
Remembrance - Gretchen Brooks
Untended Garden - Alfred Phillips

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