54th Annual Delta Winners Chosen PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 09 January 2012 19:04
LITTLE ROCK, AR) – The Arkansas Arts Center announces the award winners for the 54th Annual Delta Exhibition.  The exhibition will be held in the Townsend Wolfe Gallery January 27 – March 28, 2012.
Juror Tom Butler, director of the Columbus Museum, Columbus, Ga., selected one Grand Award, two Delta Awards and eight Honorable Mentions out of the 54 works represented in the 54th Annual Delta Exhibition.  The Arkansas Arts Center Contemporaries, a young professional group dedicated to supporting the arts, also selected a Contemporaries Delta Award and two Contemporaries Delta Honorable Mentions.

Rod Moorhead from Oxford, Miss., was awarded the Grand Award for his work titled 9 Zen Nuns.  David Bailin of Little Rock, Ark., received a Delta Award for his work titled Cars.  A Delta Award was also awarded to Keliy Anderson-Staley of Russellville, Ark., for her work titled Helen.  The artists David Bogus, Marian Doville, Stephen Harris, Dixie Knight, Benjamin Krain, Zeek Taylor, John Willer and Kat Wilson received an Honorable Mention.
The Arkansas Arts Center Contemporaries awarded the Contemporaries Delta Award to Mark Lewis of Tulsa, Okla., for his work titled Peoria Ave. #5.  Keith Melton of North Little Rock, Ark., received a Contemporaries Delta Honorable Mention for his work titled Virgil Lawrence, Google Portrait.  Louis Watts of Little Rock, Ark., also received a Contemporaries Delta Honorable Mention for his work titled Untitled VIII: from the Apoptosis Series.
Established in 1958, the Delta Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture features contemporary works by artists from Arkansas and the bordering states.  The Delta Exhibition has grown to encompass works in all media and displays the dynamic vision of the artists of the Mississippi Delta region.  The Delta Exhibition is open to all artists who live in or were born in one of the following states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.
The 54th Annual Delta Exhibition is sponsored by Janet and Sam Alley.  The Grand Award is supported by The John William Linn Endowment Fund.  The exhibition is supported by the Andre Simon Memorial Trust in memory of everyone who has died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).  For more information, call 501-372-4000 or visit http://www.arkarts.com
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