[Press Release] : Visual artists receive awards at Festival

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 26, 2006

CONTACT: Kay McCarthy
 Cultural Program Specialist
(573) 874-6387

Visual artists receive awards at Festival	
								
	(COLUMBIA, MO) - Artists Mark Knewtson and Jerry H. Brown were
selected to receive awards at the 15th annual Columbia Festival of the
Arts held this past weekend, Sept. 23 -24.
	Best of Show was awarded to Knewtson, a ceramicist and sculptor
from Urbana, Mo. The Merit Award, sponsored by the city’s Commission
on Cultural Affairs, went to Brown, of Lee’s Summit, for his drawings
and pastels.
	The two were singled out from a field of 50 local and regional
artists who exhibited and sold their work at the Festival Saturday and
Sunday. A variety of media was represented including jewelry, wood,
watercolor, photography, clay, pastels, ceramics, sculpture, mixed
media, glass, printmaking, oil, acrylics, metal and fiber. Each artist
submitted an application to exhibit at the Festival and was chosen
through a juried process.
	The Best of Show winner was selected by juror Terry Marin, an
artist from Jefferson City and professor of art at William Woods
University in Fulton. Ken Greene and Jo Donati Shaw, representatives of
the city’s Commission on Cultural Affairs, selected the Merit Award
winner.

The Columbia Festival of the Arts is a program of the City of Columbia
Office of Cultural Affairs. Financial assistance has been provided by
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Boone County National Bank, The Callaway
Bank, CenturyTel, Columbia Convention & Visitors Bureau, Columbia Daily
Tribune, Commerce Bank, Dave Griggs’ Flooring America, Days Inn and
Travelodge, Deck the Walls, First National Bank, KBIA 91.3, KOMU
TV8/Mid-Missouri’s CW Network, McDonald’s, MFA Oil, Missouri Arts
Council and Regency Hotel Downtown.

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