All Hail, DFAC’s outstanding student, member + faculty artists who share a single artwork celebrating their creative endeavors of this past year in our most-beloved exhibits of the season! Student + Member Artists exhibit one work of art in any medium competing for cash prizes selected by a guest juror while DFAC’s honored faculty display works in an adjacent gallery.

Congratulations to this year’s award-winners and a special thanks to this year’s judge, Amanda Poss.

Best of Show: Thomas Anderson III, Exit Wound, stone   

First Place: Kristen Santucci, Ambivalent, oil

Second Place: Jan Richardson, Ancient Intergalactic Warrior Vessel, soda-fired stoneware, wire

Third Place: Kimberly Engel, Landfall, acrylic and crayon

Merit:

Christina Bertsos, Night, black marble

Ellen Jean Cole, Indigenous Warrior Maiden with Stone Shield, fine silver clay

Anne Emslie, Where’s the Rake?, fiber

Susan Fritz, Late Night Blues, watercolor

James M. Harper, Cholla Birkin, clay, stoneware, ceramic

Julian Hartzog, Movin’ On, oil

Leslie Jeffery, Overseas New York, acrylic

P.A. Kushner, The Hug, ceramic