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Painter wins Mainsail's Best of Show award
By LENNIE BENNETT
Published April 18, 2005
ST. PETERSBURG - John E. Thursby won the $10,000 Best of Show award at the 30th annual Mainsail Arts Festival on Sunday. Judge Irvin Lippman, executive director of the Museum of Art/Ft. Lauderdale, selected Thursby along with 47 other winners who will split an additional $40,000 in prize money, which includes purchase awards.
Thursby, 59, a professor at Central Florida Community College, was the first artist in the festival's history to win the top prize in the medium of painting. It's also his first Best award at Mainsail, though he has won it at other outdoor festivals in Florida. It comes at a good time for him.
"I'm retiring in three weeks," he said, "and I'll be able to paint what I want to, not what I have to."
Other winners:
Awards of Excellence ($1,500)
Louise Cherwak, graphics
Sue Archer, watercolor
Jeff Eckert, graphics
Victor Baisley, wood
Margo Annis, fiber
Jason Hunt, graphics
John Bayalis, watercolor
Paul Lamontagne, wood
Jon Smith, oil/acrylics
Ellen Vontillius, jewelry
Awards of Distinction ($750)
Steve Rogers, watercolor
Dennis Weller, photography
Barbara Fellman, fiber
Charles Rowe, oil/acrylics
Pamela Fox, jewelry
Mary McFarland, fiber
Nancy Cervenka, sculpture
Ummarid Eitharong, mixed media
Gael and Howard Silverblatt, jewelry
Joseph Digangi, metal
Rhona Winchell, jewelry
Karen Barry, fibers
Peter Bailey, watercolor
William Lurcott, graphics
Ellie Diez-Massaro, photography
Beau Tudzarov, graphics
Ralph Behrendt, glass
Awards of Merit ($500)
Albert Zimmerman, wood
Ellen Marshall, graphics
Jeff Ripple, photography
Jude Pokorny, oil/acrylic
Bruce Peeso, oil/acrylic
Rachel Zamek, mixed media
John Krieger, watercolor
James Biond, jewelry
William Kidd, ceramics
Farhana Hussain, watercolor
Duncan McClellan, glass
Vonnie Whitworth, watercolor
Patricia Karnes, jewelry
Sessin Durgham, jewelry
Elain Hahn, watercolor
Garry Seidel, photography
Charles Gatewood, oil/acrylics
Greg Roche, fiber
Ronald Lemoine, metal
Brian Sykes, wood
Kids at Art Awards Scholarships
Andrea Pejack, PCCA-Gibbs
Jill Beals, PCCA-Gibbs
Kurt McRobert, PCCA-Gibbs
Best of Show
Rowan Stanley, Sunshine School
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