The Gallery at Mercer County Community College has announced the award winners for “Mercer County Artists 2009.” The exhibit, which runs through Sunday, April 9, features 78 works by 64 artists who live, work, or study in Mercer County. Sixty works are two-dimensional and 18 works are three-dimensional. Featured art was selected from more than 200 works submitted. This year’s juror was Kristen Accola, director of Accola Contemporary Art Gallery in New York City and recent past exhibition director and curator at the Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton.##M:[more]##
“Most art media are represented, including oils, watercolor prints, ink drawings, colored pencil, ceramics, wood, handmade paper, acrylics, and mixed media,” says gallery curator Tricia Fagan, a West Windsor resident.
Honorable mentions were awarded to seven artists including Janet Felton of West Windsor for “Breakfast at Mercer County Park.” Winners of purchase prizes, selected by representatives from the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission, include West Windsor residents Dee Gozonsky of West Windsor for “Havin’ Fun” and Mary Ann Weisser for her watercolor, “Mill at Walnford.”
Weisser received a second award for “Mill at Walnford” from the West Windsor Arts Council. The council awarded an honorable mention to Al Chasan, also a West Windsor resident, for his oil stick painting, “A Good Man.”
For more information, call 609-570-3589 or visit www.mccc.edu/community_gallery.
