2008 Award and Honorable Mentions

Adult Awards | Adult Honorable Mentions
Children's Awards | Children's Honorable Mentions

Adult Award Recipients (artist receives $400 purchase award - artwork goes into VSA's Traveling Exhibit) (click image for larger view):

	Craig Allan Caywood (Milwaukee), "Self Portrait"
	Jack Dillhunt (Green Bay), "Summertime is Over"
	Phil Schultz (Racine), "Wheelchair Racer" (sculpture)
	Alex Murtaugh (Two Rivers), "Three's Carpooling"
	Marcella Paliekara (Fond du Lac), "Sleeping Angel"

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Adult Honorable Mention Recipients ($100 award - artwork is returned to the artist after the Awards Ceremony in March) (click image for larger view):

	Jay Devere (Milwaukee), "Women at War"
	Kyle Lyne (Berlin), "Apple Tree Vase"
	Karla McNeely (New Lisbon), "The Joker"
	Don Pierce (Madison), "Looking into the Far"
	Jamie Winter (Shawano), "Rodeo"

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Children's Award Recipients (receive $100 gift certificate (for art supplies) purchase award - artwork goes into VSA's Traveling Exhibit):

	Janel Dailey (Mazomanie - Wisconsin Heights High School), "Hillary Duff"
	Savanna Euer (Kewaskum - Kewaskum Elementary), "Winter Fun"
	Matthew Hill (Montfort - Iowa Grant Elementary), "Our Family Portrait"
	Joseph Krasovich (Greenfield - Edgewood School), "Blue Flowers"
	Gunner Skroch (LaCrosse - West Salem Elementary), "Animal Tracks"

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Children's Honorable Mention Recipients receive $50 gift certificate (for art supplies); artwork is returned to the artist after the Awards Ceremony in March)

	Jenny Angle (Berlin - Berlin High School), "Summer Lilac Basket"
	Abigail Banks (Madison - John Muir Elementary) - "Native American Girl"
	Nicholas Durjak (Lyndon Station - Spring Hill Elementary), "Stained Glass Window"
	Alanah Nelson (Prescott - Prescott Middle School), "Many Colors of Blue"
	Rosa Rudzitis (Campbellsport - Kewaskum Elementary), "Like Georgia O'Keefe"

Artists whose work was selected will be honored at the March 29 Awards Ceremony at Warner Park Recreation Center in Madison.

The five adult pieces selected for purchase awards will be added to VSA's Traveling Adult Art Exhibit (ages 16 and older) and the five children's pieces selected will go into VSA's Traveling Children's Art Exhibit (ages 5-15). The traveling exhibits are displayed year-round at corporations, libraries, museums and galleries throughout the state. More information about the Traveling Exhibits.

VSA artwork stays in the traveling collections for three years, after which it is retired from the traveling exhibits and may be used as recognition gifts or sold by VSA to help support the program.