ART SHOWCASE WORKS OF ALL KINDS TO GRACE EXHIBIT AT LANCASTER GALLERY.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Ninety-two artists' watercolors, oils, photos, sculptures and other works go on display today in the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery's biggest show of the year. The 145 pieces were selected from 259 entries for the 20th Annual Juried All Media Art Exhibition, which runs through March 20 at the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery, 44801 Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling . Winners of a combined total of $840 in cash awards will be announced at a reception to be held from 5 to 7 p.m. today. The exhibition pieces and the award winners were selected by Emily Falke, chief curator and head of special projects at the Bakersfield Museum of Art. The pieces include works in watercolors, acrylic, oil and pastels, wood carvings wood carving, as an art form, includes any kind of sculpture in wood, from the decorative bas-relief on small objects to life-size figures in the round, furniture, and architectural decorations. The woods used vary greatly in hardness and grain. , glass, painted china, paper, computer graphics, color and black-and-white photography, and mosaics, and color pencil and graphite graphite (grăf`īt), an allotropic form of carbon, known also as plumbago and black lead. It is dark gray or black, crystalline (often in the form of slippery scales), greasy, and soft, with a metallic luster. images. Themes include abstractions, fantasy illustrations, marine scenes, Native Americans, florals, still lifes, country landscapes, ballerinas, skeletons, patriotic views, wood-turned vases, portraits and animals. Each year the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Allied Arts Association selects one member to showcase in the exhibit. This year's show features Judy Rankin Judy Rankin (born February 18 1945, St Louis, Missouri) is an American professional golfer. Rankin won twenty-six events on the LPGA Tour. She topped the money list in 1976 and 1977 and finished in the top ten on the money list eleven times between 1965 and 1979. , a longtime association member who teaches children's art at the association's Cedar Centre in downtown Lancaster. Awards to be presented include: Lancaster Museum Art Gallery Associates - $200 for first place, best of exhibit; $150 for second place; $100 for third place; and $100 for the LMAG LMAG London Motorists Action Group (UK) LMAG London Market Actuaries' Group Associates Members' Award; Antelope Valley AAA/Allied Arts Cedar Community Arts Centre An art center or arts centre is distinct from an art gallery or art museum. An arts centre is a functional community centre with a specific remit to encourage arts practice and to provide facilities such as theatre space, gallery space, venues for musical performance, Award, $100; Lancaster Photography Association, $100; High Desert Art Association, $50; and Museum/Art Gallery Curators, $40 for a child's award. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. For more information, call (661) 723-6250. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Artists Jonathan Baker and Jessica Parker look at their work on display at the Lancaster gallery for the show. (2 -- 4 -- color) Left, Veronica Williams' ``Native American Girl''; center, Perry Cooksey's ``Girl with Parasol''; Tori Notz with ``Gregory.'' Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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