May 27- June 26, 2005
Reception June 4th , 7-9pm

Juror: Carl Belz is Director Emeritus of the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. While director of the Rose from 1974 through 1999, he organized numerous exhibitions of regionally- and nationally-recognized artists, among them Frank Stella, Alex Katz, Helen Frankenthaler, Todd McKie and Judy Kensley McKie, Barnet Rubenstein, Gregory Gillespie, Joan Snyder, William Beckman, and Jake Berthot. He has written extensively on contemporary art and is currently a visiting professor at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, while also serving as a selectman in Franconia, NH, where he and his wife Barbara now reside.

Juror's overall comments:
"It was an enormous pleasure for me to see the more than 450 pieces of art submitted for the annual exhibition. As I've seen in jurying other such exhibitions, the submissions here represented a broad spectrum of styles and attitudes.

I was not surprised that representational work out numbered abstractions by a wide margin - a widespread pattern in recent art. As one who was schooled in abstraction, I always long for a little more of that stuff.

In thinking about current art at the same time - art that is often referred to as a subscribing to a post modernist sensibility - I was heartened to detect very little cynicism or irony in the works that I saw in Newburyport. The artists I encountered there seem to believe in art as we've known it in the bigger picture. So do I, and I am accordingly grateful for having the opportunity to select this exhibition."

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Mary Alice Arakelian Award for Best of Show $500.
Edna Araujo, who resides both in Brazil and with her sister in Acton, MA
Reflexo
Oil on canvas

H. Patterson Hale Jr. Memorial prize For Excellence, $300.
Lully Schwartz Amesbury, MA
Bag of Cherries
Oil





Institution for Savings Charitable Foundation Prize for General Excellence in Painting, $150.
Mary Jane Trumbore, Andover, MA
Reflections
Watercolor




Bruce Ellavsky Memorial Award for Painting, $150.
Eleanor Ferri Jones, Peabody, MA
Brooksby Village, series #2
Acrylic


Award for Drawing/Printmaking, $100.
Skip Motes, Newburyport, MA
Salt Marsh Motif: Plum Island Refuge
Conte


Award for Sculpture/3D, $100.
Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord, Newburyport, MA
Spirit Book # 46 Ripening Harmony
Sculpture 3-D

Award for Photography, $100:
Sarah Raleigh, Newburyport, MA
Olsen Kitchen
Photograph

Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank Award for Water-based Media, $100:
Beverly Mitchell, West Newbury, MA
Patterns in the Garden
Water Color





Award for Mixed Media/Pastel, $100:
Susan Whitten, Hudson, NH
Marsh Sunset
Pastel

Sam Sargent Award for Painting, $100:
Debra Grubbs, Salem, NH
Early Spring Birches
Oil


Strem Chemical Award for Best Use of Media, $100:
Ellen Rolli, Melrose, MA
Still Life With Three Rose,
Acrylic

Four Honorable Mentions, $50:

Bonney Goldstein, North Hampton, NH
Memory Point Above Time
Mixed media




Heidi Jackson, Chelmsford, MA
Imagine Green Pastures
Acrylic




Sue Anne Hodges, West Newbury, MA
Light on Blinds and Sheers#2
Color Photograph








Gary Rathmell, Newton, NH
Untitled
Forged Fabricated Steel

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