Golden GalaExhibit at the Galleries at Quiet WatersCongratulations to our award winners! First, Second, and Third Place for AWC members and for guests were awarded by exhibit judge Jenny Cawood, as well as a First Place Overall. Two honorable mentions were selected by Friends of Quiet Waters volunteers. The Children's Award was selected by six-year-old Thomas Hempel. The exhibit will be on display May 21 – July 6, 2025 at the Galleries at Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis, Maryland. The visitor's center hours are 9 AM – 4 PM weekdays, 10 AM – 4 PM weekends. Quiet Waters Park charges a daily vehicle entry fee of $6.00 per car except for the Opening Reception. Please scroll down below the images for remarks from the judge, Jenny Cawood. All rights to these images are the exclusive property of the artists and the images may not be reproduced in any way. |
First Place Overall: "Matador", Angela Di Cicco
Vitality, like a dance. Looks like the immediacy of a true feeling. Deliberate and spontaneous simultaneously. Love this.
First Place, AWC Members: "Deflection", Karen Norman
I adore how this deals with the relationship between the mechanical and the organic. Metal bending to artificial light like sunflowers. Quiet, contemplative, slightly unsettling at the same time as it is comforting.
Second Place, AWC Members: "Carnival Jester", Kay FullerThe gold feels seamlessly justified by the content — gilded opulence covering a face, exhausted and perhaps indignant towards what is seen. Where does humanity stop and performance begin? And how are the two related?
Third Place, AWC Members: "Valletta Reflections", Theresa Jackson
City light meets the interiority of an individual; dreamy and lush with a unique motif choice that makes full use of its odd perspective — smart color harmony, evokes a rainy night walk when the ground beneath your feet takes on new intrigue. Love the mystery of it.
First Place, Guest Artists: "A Dream", Carole Falk
Love the way this captures the sinew of a misty dream, like one many of us have had and can't remember. Original, mystifying — heartfelt, distant yet inviting. Simple, complete.
Second Place, Guest Artists: "Morning Gold", Nancy Thomas
Emerges like a gorgeous recollection of a childhood memory — sincere, luscious, real but unreal too. The way the landscape feels rather than how it looks. Pushes you away and much as it draws you in.
Third Place, Guest Artists: "Immersion", Linda Gosman
Enveloping, intimate view of the interplay between light and dark. Feels like both a dynamic ocean landscape and, from afar, a static still-life of an animal part. I see life and death in this work, and they seem to pull in and out of each other in turns.
Honorable Mention: Annette Uroskie ,“Golden Morning”
Honorable Mention: Joan Machinchick, “First Light, December Wetlands”
Children’s Award: Cheryl Duvall , “Nest of Dreams.”