[Press Release] : Visual artists receive awards at festival

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 1, 2008

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

Visual artists receive awards at festival	
								
	(COLUMBIA, MO) - Artists Paul Pfrehm and Jimmy Liu received
awards at the 17th annual Columbia Festival of the Arts held this past
weekend, Sept. 27-28. Best of Show was awarded to ceramicist Paul Pfrehm
of Wewoka, Okla. The Merit Award, sponsored by the city’s Commission
on Cultural Affairs, went to Jimmy Liu, a ceramicist from Ballwin, Mo.
	The two were singled out from a field of 48 juried 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, James E. Tatum,
art professor and chair of the Art Department at Lincoln University in
Jefferson City. Ken Greene and Kip Goodman, 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
Boone County National Bank, CenturyTel, Columbia Convention & Visitors
Bureau Tourism Development Fund, Columbia Daily Tribune, Columbia Home
and Lifestyle Magazine, Commerce Bank, Dave Griggs’ Flooring America,
Days Inn and Travelodge, Deck the Walls, KBIA 91.3, KOMU 8 and
Mid-Missouri CW, MFA Oil, Missouri Arts Council, Mid-America Arts
Alliance, National Endowment for the Arts and the Regency Hotel
Downtown.

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