2022 Texas & Neighbors Award Winners

The 37th annual exhibit is on exhibit from MAY 14 – to JUNE 11, 2022 in the Main Gallery of the Irving Arts Center, 3333 N. MacArthur Blvd., Irving TX 75062. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 12 pm-5 pm – No reservation necessary! Free to view! 

86 works were accepted into the show by juror Billy Hassell from artists residing in five states: Arkansas, Louisana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. This year’s show includes eight media categories: acrylic, drawing (dry media), mixed media / other media, oil painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture / 3-D, and water media.

The Reception & Awards Ceremony was held on Sunday, May 15th from 2-5 pm. It was also live-streamed by the Arts Center beginning at 3 PM for those unable to attend in person and will also be available for viewing later. $9200 in awards was presented by the juror Billy Hassell. Our new Signature Artist for 2022, Kim Collins, was recognized, as well as the other returning Signature Artists.

To view the Reception & Awards photos, click here To view the Catalog, click here

The exhibit is both physical and online. To see a virtual tour of the exhibit click here. (It’s on the Irving Arts Center virtual website at https://iaconlineart.com —Take a look at last year’s exhibit too!)

A video of the Reception & Awards was created by ICTN (Irving Community Television Network) and posted on the City of Irving’s YouTube channel. To view the video of the Reception & Awards, click here

AWARD WINNERS

Awards	Artwork Title	Artist
Best of Show	Quilt Expo III, oil	Amy Werntz
IAC Award of Excellence	Wacker, oil	David Schweitzer

Acrylic
1st Place	Betcha	John Schaeffer
2nd Place	Picnic Stop Near Ghost Ranch	Diane Kell
3rd Place	Seascape	Mayank Dharia
HM	Radha-Krishna Rasleela	Neha Pathak
HM	Written	Harriette Tsosie

Dry Media (Drawing)
1st Place	Moonshine	Tanja Gant
2nd Place	The Weaver	Anjali Pai
3rd Place	Grains of Life II	Patsy Lindamood
HM	I Love M & M’s	Russ Mackensen

Mixed Media /Other Media
1st Place	Scent of Broq-pa 08042020D	Ziesook You
2nd Place	Totally Tarted Up	Diane Gelman
3rd Place	La Defensa	KB Morris
HM	A Stitch in Time	Maggi Miller
HM	Matisse’s Game	Odilia Iaccarino

Oil
1st Place	Old No. 7	John Cole
2nd Place	Bound	Kathryn Megginson
3rd Place	Heeded	R.D. Mitchell
HM	Silver City	Chris Goodheart
HM	An Event Horizon	Leslie Lanzotti

Photography
1st Place	An Idea of Us	Rob Domenech
HM	Ascension	Tina Alvarez
Printmaking
1st Place	Because You’re Special	Mary Carradine
HM	Floridian Fruit	Kristen Baxter

Sculpture / 3-D
1st Place	Sustainable Flowers	George Tobolowsky
2nd Place	Sensor Device No. 3	Kurt Dyrhaug
3rd Place	Solitude	Thomas Tankersley
HM	Dry Mouth/Shallow Breathing	Daniela Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Watermedia
1st Place	Tinted Window	Soon Warren
2nd Place	Starlight II	Lisa Tennant
3rd Place	Under Construction	Sudeep Kumar
HM	The Tire Guy	Court Bailey