Awards and Scholarships

• 2008 Summer Celebration Show
• 2008 Annual Juried Show
• 2008 Scholarship/Visual Arts Award
• 2008 Condotta Award
• 2007 Szulinski Award
• 2007 Summer Celebration Show
• 2007 Annual Juried Show Winners

2008 Summer Celebration Show Award Winners

2008 High School Scholarship/Visual Art Award

Each year, Allied Arts provides a high school art award, two college level scholarships, and an Master of Fine Arts level scholarship. Prospectuses for competition for the high school award are sent to Mid-Columbia area school art departments. Columbia Basin College scholarship recipients are chosen by the CBC Foundation, as part of their own broader competition. The MFA prospectuses are sent to universities in Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

Allied Arts features our Student Scholarship Show annually in the Parkside Gallery to exhibit the work of each of these award and scholarship winners.

Allied Arts awarded a $700 Visual Arts Award for a local High School Senior graduating in 2008. Applicants submitted an entry form, a one-page typed resume, and a portfolio of 6 to 10 pieces of art.

We are proud to have awarded this scholarship award to Megan Miller of Hanford High School.

2008 Masters of Fine Art Award

2008's winner is Brian Knowles, a student at the University of Oregon. He is an installation artist who uses a variety of woodblock and screen prints, mylar, foil, and foam to create a vivid three dimensional work.

CBC Scholarships

Allied Arts awarded two tuition scholarships for Columbia Basin College students. This year, Jessica Mcoy and Vlanka Catalan were selected

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2008 Leola Condotta Award

At the reception February 10 for this month¹s featured artists, Allied Arts presented the first annual Condotta Award for excellence in a 2-dimensional medium to Richland artist Rosemary Merckx. Denny Condotta (1926-2004) was a prominent member of the Hanford community; both he and his wife, Leola, were supporters and leaders of civic and arts groups in the Tri-Cities. Leola, an Allied Arts Board member for many years, established a fund in memory of Denny for educational programs and this new award.

Rosemary Merckx came to Richland when her father was managing construction of Alphabet Houses in the 1940¹s and has lived here ever since. She began to take classes from some of the founding members of Allied Arts and soon became involved herself. She holds the record for longest service to Allied Arts and is still responsible for the installations of many of the exhibits in the Gallery. She has used numerous mediums in her creative life but is best known for her innovative glass paintings and exuberant, colorful oil canvases. A small exhibit of her work is on display in the gallery during February 2008.

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Summer Celebration 2007 Show Winners

Best of Show

2-D Award

Punk Portrait

Autumn Lace

Oil

Oil

Patricia O’Neil

Mark Thompson

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2007 Annual Juried Show Winners

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Szulinski Award

The Bette Szulinski Award for excellence in craftsmanship was awarded January 6, 2008 during the reception for the Tri City Quilters Guild show.

The winner for 2007 is Lucy Dole of Richland WA, a beaded jewelry designer for over four years.   Lucy has displayed her work at Allied Arts for quite some time, and is an active volunteer at the gallery.

Lucy’s work demonstrates an understanding of balance, color, variety, design and versatility using the best materials available.  She executes these into fine quality jewelry.

We invite you to come see the jewelry created by Lucy Dole on display at Allied Arts Gallery.

More about the Szulinski Award: In addition to the various awards presented for outstanding work in juried shows, a special award for excellence in craft is given to an artist whose work has been shown at Allied Arts during the previous year. The Szulinski Award presentation takes place during the reception for the January Featured Show, with a small exhibit of the winner’s work on display in a prominent area of the gallery.

Bette Szulinski was a long-time Board member of Allied Arts, coming to Richland as a young bride with her husband Milt, a scientist on the Manhattan Project. Bette served on the Board of Directors for many years as Workshop Chairman, generously donating her time to this and many other projects.  Though Bette loved and appreciated all art, she was especially linked to three-dimensional art as she herself was a creator of many beautiful fabric treasures.

Before her death, Bette and her family set up this award to recognize artists who have demonstrated excellence of craftsmanship in a three-dimensional medium.  Criteria considered for this award are originality, fine workmanship and continuity.  Those artists consistently presenting their work in the gallery throughout the year can qualify for consideration.

The award winners are chosen by a committee of jurors who examine over a period of one year the work of all three-dimensional artists whose work is on display at the Gallery.  The award serves as a memorial to Bette.

Past winners were

• 2007 Lucy Dole - jewelry
• 2006 Marcia Keefer - fiber arts
• 2005 Jerry Johnson – turned/carved wood
• 2004 Karen Defferding – fiber art
• 2003: Linda Andrews, Glass
• 2002: Lynette Holmes, wearable art
• 2001: Ron and Vicki Gerton, bronze casting, wood, fiber arts
• 2000: Debra Lee Collins, beaded jewelry
• 1999: Dan and Connie Slagle, pottery
• 1998: Nanette Olson, fused glass
• 1997: Lisa Day, painted wood, jewelry
• 1996: Dixie Stanton, jewelry
• 1995: Victoria Gravenslund, raku pottery

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